A Little Bit Of Sailing

Of course, since the In-Laws were in town, we just had to take the sailboat out for the day. So we headed out to do some fishing from the sailboat on Old Tampa Bay. For some reason, Poppa kept trying to convince me that we should try troll-fishing behind the sailboat. Thankfully, he was overuled by the Mrs., so we didn't have to do it. We did anchor off of a radar reflector marker and tried our luck at this first location. We had little activity and we watched a guy on another boat nearby hook into a cobia that looked to be sizable, but it got away from him.

Unfortunately, with the couple of places we tried to find fish, we just didn't have good luck.

The only fish we brought on-board was this cute little Bonnet-Head Shark. He was all of about 16 inches long. We unhooked him and sent him on his way. Since we couldn't bring home some fish for dinner, we decided to go to Crabby Bill's restaurant and eat some seafood that sombody else had caught.

Unfortunately, we spent a bit more time on the water than we usually do and the 3 of us received pretty bad sunburns, while the In-Laws (wisely) stayed under the bimini top and didn't fare as poorly as we did. Today, we're spending time indoors, 'nursing our wounds', so to speak.