My Valentine's Day Present... Venice, LA

Scotty, Cheryl, Tom, Stephen, and I went on a 2 day fishing trip out of Venice, LA. We left Thursday night around 7pm and drove straight through.. about a 7-8 hr trip. We got there around 3am and quickly jumped in the beds and slept until 5:30am. Everyone got up.. ate some yummy breakfeast (thanks Scotty) and we were off on our first day of fishing. It was sooooo super cold on the ride out to the fishing spot.. I had on thurmals, jeans, ski pants, thurmal shirt, t-shirt, hoodie, and a ski jacket. Oh ya .. and of course gloves !! I was ready !!

poofy.. but really WARM !!

I hooked up the biggest fish/shark? I have ever had on my line.. this thing yanked and pulled and yanked and pulled, I probably fought it for about 20-30 minutes !! I got so tired during the fight i had to sit and use leverage to pull this thing in... even Cheryl came to help me out with the reeling !! I got this thing pretty close to the boat, enough to where Tom said.. "I see something!!" , I yelled.. "what is it ?" and two seconds later.. the line snapped !!!! NOOOOOOO... I couldnt believe it.. I wanted to at least see what I had been fighting for ever !! Oh well, It was fun anyway !!

here is one of the many sharks we caught that day

the biggest catch of the trip.. a 5+ foot Wahoo !!

It took Scotty and Tom to fight this fish and get it to the boat.

What a prize !!

here is what we came home with:

Huge Wahoo, 3ft Ling, several AmberJack, several types of Snapper (we caught lots of huge Red Snapper, but you cant keep those in LA.), and some Grouper... Thanks guys for a GREAT trip, I cant wait to go back in March !!