The Joys of Night Fishing
(Editor's note: Here is a guest article from Justin DeBerry, one of our readers. Sounds like quite a night!
Most people that fish saltwater have at one time or another conceived the great idea of night fishing. Either enough time has passed so that you forget how miserable it was last time or it?s simply your first time trying it. Either way you and your buddy get fired up all day talking about it and you go.
And that?s where my story starts.
It was one afternoon down in Carrabelle, Florida, capital of the forgotten coast, and the fish weren?t biting. We fished for a few days fighting the heat and we managed to land a few reds, but we wanted something a little more exciting. So me and my buddy Blake Gardner decide to go night fishing. Not just any night fishing, we were going after some sharks. Now personally I hate catching sharks unless that?s what I?m after, and that night we were going after a big one.
So we decided to go try and coax a local by the name of Frank Frink into going fishing with us. Well, it was common knowledge around Carrabelle that he was a virtual shark guru so it didn?t take much to get him to go. He even volunteered to take his own boat. Well, it was getting about dark so we grabbed a snack and something to drink and loaded up the boat. When we finally pulled out there were five of us in all, Blake, Frank, another friend of mine Chad Dunn, me, and some guy whose name is still a mystery to me.
Now this is when the story starts to get good. We managed to bring everything we?d need for shark fishing but nothing else. We didn?t even bring anything to drink except for a few beers. But that was fine because we were only going to fish for a few hours and then come back in. So we started fishing hitting a few spots here and there never really getting any quality action so we decided to move to a little deeper water. We were about three or four miles out fishing a ledge off of the Dog Island reef. We fished for a couple of hours but never managed to get anything but a few over zealous hard-heads. So we decided to call it quits and head in but now there?s another problem, the motor want start.
Most people that fish saltwater have at one time or another conceived the great idea of night fishing. Either enough time has passed so that you forget how miserable it was last time or it?s simply your first time trying it. Either way you and your buddy get fired up all day talking about it and you go.
And that?s where my story starts.
It was one afternoon down in Carrabelle, Florida, capital of the forgotten coast, and the fish weren?t biting. We fished for a few days fighting the heat and we managed to land a few reds, but we wanted something a little more exciting. So me and my buddy Blake Gardner decide to go night fishing. Not just any night fishing, we were going after some sharks. Now personally I hate catching sharks unless that?s what I?m after, and that night we were going after a big one.
So we decided to go try and coax a local by the name of Frank Frink into going fishing with us. Well, it was common knowledge around Carrabelle that he was a virtual shark guru so it didn?t take much to get him to go. He even volunteered to take his own boat. Well, it was getting about dark so we grabbed a snack and something to drink and loaded up the boat. When we finally pulled out there were five of us in all, Blake, Frank, another friend of mine Chad Dunn, me, and some guy whose name is still a mystery to me.
Now this is when the story starts to get good. We managed to bring everything we?d need for shark fishing but nothing else. We didn?t even bring anything to drink except for a few beers. But that was fine because we were only going to fish for a few hours and then come back in. So we started fishing hitting a few spots here and there never really getting any quality action so we decided to move to a little deeper water. We were about three or four miles out fishing a ledge off of the Dog Island reef. We fished for a couple of hours but never managed to get anything but a few over zealous hard-heads. So we decided to call it quits and head in but now there?s another problem, the motor want start.
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