Awesome Day on Sea Legs

Today I had a fishing day to remember. My aunt, Annette, and I went on our long overdue annual fishing trip on the Sea Legs party boat in Hollywood, Fl. For the first time, we arrived on time to boat. It was a slightly breezy day, and there were some clouds in the sky that would come and go. As we went out, we knew that the trip would not be a rocky one, because we weren't expecting any waves. What surprised us, though, was that the water was almost completely flat. It was looking like a great trip already, and Annette and I had great feelings about the fishing yet to come. We arrived at our spot after about 15-20 minutes after leaving the dock. We started to catch fish as soon as we dropped our baits. Annette and I felt nibbles, slightly jerked up the rod, and reeled up some fighting fish. They were Vermillion Snappers! We kept on fishing at this spot for a while until the school left. The whole boat was catching fish, but we had, by far, the most amount of fish caught at the time, with 10 combined. We already had a few double hookups on one line because the chicken rigs we were using had two hooks baited with squid that were dropped to the bottom. We went to another spot that was not far away, and started catching just as we had before. This time not only were we catching more big Vermillion Snappers, but we also caught some Yellow-Eyed Snappers. They were fighting very well when I brought them up. We continued at this spot until we had a total of 18 fish. We were already satisfied with our trip, and we still had about an hour and a half left to go before we went in! At our last few stops, we had caught some more snappers. The whole boat was catching fish. Our biggest fish of the day was a big Red Grouper that we had brought all the way to the surface, only to fall off just before we could bring it into the book. It's a shame that we couldn't have taken any pictures with it, but at least we had caught it! As the day wore on, the sky cleared up and the people kept on catching. We ended up the trip with a combined 23 fish caught, I caught 15 fish, Annette got 5 fish, and 3 fish were caught by both of us. This was an awesome day of fishing, and we will definitely continue to fish on this boat. Tight Lines, and Stay Tuned!