Cadden's Camper Corner: A fishing we will go.......

The secret to losing weight.........go fishing, who would have known.

We have had the most glorious last two weeks, lovely warm weather, slight winds but not to bad. So the park decided to plan a fishing trip, it was scheduled for January 12th, and we were so excited to go. January 11th was 79degrees, January 12th 64 degrees and strong winds out of the north (of course, just our luck) We had to travel about an hour an a half to catch the boat and the people we were travelling with had heard the winds would be 25 miles an hour by the afternoon so we phoned at 6am to see if the boat was still going out and they said so far yes.

Once we got to the boat a lot of our group was already there and what we did not know was that they were given an option to cancel for another day as it was going to be rough but they chose to go out anyway.......

We were supposed to go out 35 - 40 miles to where we would fish but after just 20 miles the waves were already 6 -7 feet high and the captain said no further, so we dropped anchor and started to fish and the fish were biting, lots of little spotted grunts and one woman caught a 20 pound red fish right off the start so we thought this was going to be great but the waves just kept on coming and getting larger as time wore on. Now by this time, just about 75 percent of the boat was ill and many of us were using the barf buckets frequently. You could see the horizon 50 percent of the time otherwise you were in a swell. It was also so cold that you just about froze to death, especially after getting sick I got the chills and could not get rid of them.

Finally after things were getting worse and more people were heaving the captain took things in charge and told everyone lines up we were getting out of this. We travelled a very rocky 15 miles south east to the coast off of Naples and we tried fishing in a few places but either the fish would not bite because the water was so stirred up or the captain could not keep the boat anchored as the strong winds kept blowing us away.

At 3pm, we called it quits with still a two hour ride back to Fort Myers but as we were in shore a little the waves were not quite as bad and most people survived the return trip without to much use of the buckets.

So because I was either to ill or afraid to lose my camera overboard the only pictures I have for you are of our beginning. No point taking pictures of the fish as they were so little, but I did get to see the spotted grunt, the red fish, groupers, flounder, perch and the mother in law fish.

I was very happy to get back on shore and once we arrived home I went straight to bed to get warm....so much for my fishing days.

Here is our boat.