Fiiiiiiiiishingggggggg

I have come to realize that there are two types of fishing. There is fishing and then there is fiiiiiishinggggggg. Andrea falls into the second category. I, on the other hand, take fishing very seriously. When I feel a nibble, I wait, give it a second to commit, set the hook and start to land the fish. That's fishing!!

Andrea feels a nibble, lets the fish clean it's pallet, swirl the bait around in it's mouth a bit, then she lets it swim around because she likes to watch it move her line back and forth. She says, "Look Keeum it's swimmin' round on the end of my line." That prompts me to yell, "Andrea will you set that damn hook and bring that fish into the boat!!!" Her reply, "well ok, I'm just having some fun with it!!" Then she starts reeling like a bat out of hell, gets the fish to the surface of the water and then it flops off the hook and hits the water. For cryin' out loud, I just can't take it!!! That girl could test the patience of Mother Theresa herself.

Sweet she is, a world class fisherwoman she is most certainly not!! I just can't wait to enter our first fishing tournament!!

Fishical Therapy

WE GOT A NEW BOAT!!!! After years and years....well, ok it was only months, but it seemed like years. We finally found our boat!!! Affectionately named "Fishical Therapy." We drove down to Palm Beach yesterday to take a look at it and we're going to go back out and pick it up on Saturday!!!

A few of the highlights:

It's 15 feet long with a bimini top to keep us sheltered from the blazing Florida sun.

It has a 50 horsepower Johnson Motor. Wow, can you imagine, 50 horses, now that's some power.

An aerated live bait well - we'll save tons of money not having to buy "D" sized batteries for our little portable air pump.

It has a marine stereo and two speakers installed - we didn't have a stereo in the Gheenoe, but I do hope that Andrea will continue to do her moving rendition of "Go Tell It On the Mountain".

A color fish finder/GPS system - Andrea and I were the fish finders on the Gheenoe, we stayed in three feet of water most of the time so we could find the fish pretty easily and we never needed a GPS cause we could always see the car from where we were fishin'.

It really is awesome and we really are excited to go and get it this weekend. You all know what this means? A bigger boat, so bigger fish stories!!! So we hope.

Oh my goodness!!! I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Andrea caught the biggest Mangrove Snapper to date on our last fishing trip with my dad. It was over 12 inches!!! I went to take a picture of it and the batteries in my camera were dead. She was thrilled beyond words about that, let me tell you. But I found this picture of one that looks exactly like it on the internet so I thought I'd post it for you all to see.