Justin, Fran and 11-year old Jake fished out of the St. Lucie Inlet with me, looking for "anything that would bite". Besides a couple of fish, they also re-emphasized the lesson "don't stop until you're COMPLETELY out of bait."
Jake began the fun with a nice little 3-pound jack he caught right on the edge of the beach, in about a foot of water. The jack might not have pulled the scale all the way to the edge, but it managed to run Jake around th boat a couple of time and try to break off in the prop before he finally got it to the boat. That's part of the joy of light tackle fishing!
We ran out to get some more bait and then came back to the inlet, hoping for some big snook. It looked like, once again, we were going to run out of bait, but I found one last threadfin hiding behind the standpipe in the well and stuck on Justin's hook. Not 30 seconds after the last bait of the day hit the water, Justin was pulling hard to keep a 12-pound jack out of the woods and submerged logs where we were fishing. The fish made three or four really hard ( I know, because I had the drag pretty tight 0n the Shimano reel) runs. When Justin got him to the boat and I got him in the boat, the hook immediately fell out onto the deck.
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