Deep Sea Fishing

Some pictures and stories from our fishing trip!  Our fishing trip was a lot of fun and nearly fed us for a long time!  We got 1 bite near the time our fishing trip was over...and it was a giant marlin!!!  We were trolling along and all of the sudden the pole bent nearly in half and line started to fly off the reel as the marlin ran with it.  I grabbed the pole and started reeling and it jumped way out of the water.  It was huge.  I screamed pretty loud. I adjusted the drag a bit and started reeling again but the fish was gone!  It was only on the line about 30 seconds or so and it got away!  It had to have been a couple hundred pounds and it would have been so exciting to bring it in, but it got away.  We were all very bummed out to have lost the fish!

This is how Mindi spent most of our time fishing!  I got sick just walking to the front of the boat as it bobbed up and down on the waves, but Mindi just hung her feet over the edge and had fun like a rollercoaster!

Scuba Dive Pictures

A while since we posted and here are some pictures of our scuba dive with Matt's new camera.

2 fish eating some coral

Here is Mindi diving on Troy's Coral Head in the lagoon.

This video is from the top of the coral head showing a lot of the fish that we were able to look at as we dove this site.  It was pretty neet watching them swim around us!

Here is an anemone on the wall Oceanside.  That is Mindi on the left of the picture.  Two really great dives!

This shark got way to close for comfort during one of the dives.  The thing was very curious and swam to about 10-15 feet away before swimming off.  That was certainly exciting!!!  Troy's coral head is known for sharks and we weren't disappointed.

Here is another picture on top of the coral as we dove.