Biggest fish i have ever gotten from this weekend with pics

My trip is to go to Miami Beach FL for the weekend, and it starts this past Friday and to start when i get to Newark airport my flight is delayed 3 hours, we finally leave Newark at 1 pm, we get to Miami at 4 pm, after an hour of getting my bags and the rental car and we hit the rush hour traffic and that was just great so the 20 min ride to the hotel took 1 hour and 20 mins so we finally got to the hotel at 7pm so Friday was just shoot so we got dinner, then i worked out at the hotel gym to be ready for hopefully the big fish i would get the next day and then went to bed.

Saturday starts with wake up call at 7 am because the fishing boat i was going on for 5 hours was picking me up at my hotel at 730 am. i get to the boat get some drinks and wait for other people because it was a public trip so my trip was 6 guys and every one got some fish. we started by trolling for any thing basically like sail fish, king fish, dolphin and other fish. then we started catching some more bonito for bait and they were fun to catch and one guy when we were trolling got a king fish. Then we started to fish on the wrecks by using the whole bonito which are still swimming and heavy sinker to get them down deep and some guys son gets a yellow stripe fish which is not an eating fish but looks nice on your wall so they kept it to have it mounted. Then the other guys have there shoots at getting fish but the missed two fish each so no fish for them, but we needed more bonito so they got about 4 bonito each as their catch. Then it was my turn to catch a big fish of a life time we tried a few different wrecks but nothing so when we get to the inlet we started to troll for what ever was swimming around so after the bait has been in the water for about 2 mins the rod goes off and Im ready to fight the fish. I'm flighting the fish for a while a few mins and boat is coming and almost cuts my line and my captain on the boat is flipping out and I have the guy in the boat the NJ traffic wave. But thankfully i still had the fish on and after 5 more mins I landed a 48 inch (4 foot) Barracuda and the fish weighted 30 pounds. I kept the fish and I'm having it mounted so i will have the fish by early March.
the boat website is this http://www.therapy4.com/deep_sea_sportfishing.htm
if anyone goes down to the Miami beach area use this boat if you want to catch some fish

Sunday we had a 1240 pm flight back to snowy NJ and there we no delays which was great but today was basically a travel day and I got to my house at about 420 pm.
The weather the whole Time i was there was about 82 and sunny during the day and 75 at night
Here are the pictures enjoy them.
This is the other big fish caught
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/PC010207.jpg
a few shoots of my cuda
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/PC010206.jpg
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/PC010208.jpg
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/PC010211.jpg
Now for me and my big fish
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/PC010209.jpg
and some pictures of the ocean
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/PC010213.jpg
http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/PC010202.jpg
Enjoy
Mike

Hey Mike, sounds like a great trip, and some big hungry fish! How did that Barracuda fight? It's a beauty. I've done some salt water fishing, but not down south in Florida where there are those species. Great pics, and a great report.

I don't know... mounted Barracuda VS. new fly rod.... I would take the fly rod! That would be the gift that keeps on giving!

i know but i already up a deposit on the fish being mounted but i still have have faith about the rod

Not a big fan of killing fish you aren't going to eat, but I'll forgive you this once.

The next time you go down there you should book a trip with a light tackle guide. Imagine catching that fish with 8-10 pound test and a medium action spinning rod. I was watching a fishing show once and they were hammering the Barracuda and they got some big ones as well. They were getting them all on top water lures! I really want to go to the Keys and catch Bonefish or go to the Tampa Bay area and catch the GIANT Tarpon!

Aaron, you should talk to Phil Pantano, for years he spent about 6 months a year fishing almost every day for Tarpon- he's fished with Billy Pate and all those other famous tarpon fishermen & guides. He really knows a lot about it, more than anyone I've ever met.

Aaron
funny you should talk about bone fish and Tarpon that is my next trip to FL and that time i will be in the Keys with the fly rod for bone fish and tarpon
Justin
hahaha but you be will jealous when the mounted fish comes and you say to your self O dam i wish i had that LOL
Mike

You guys should check out the latest issue of This is Fly. Some nut job goes hunting GIANT tarpon in a float tube.

Can you say shark bait??