Hello all,
My team, Requiem Fishing consisting of Blanding, Richard and myself(Stan) are from Charleston, SC. This weekend we drove down to Florida and met up with our other teammate, Garrett, for a quick weekend trip. The original purpose of the trip was to bait fish for blacktip challenge, however the east coast’s weather had other plans. Surf was reporting up 7’ in most of our spots and we decided not to chance non-fishable conditions and hit the gulf side.
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We originally intended to scope out some spots for blacktip challenge and do a lot of bait fishing. Instead as mentioned the weather was not going to cooperate. So at about 5pm Friday, the three of us left Charleston to meet up with our new teammate Garrett who was bait fishing at a small pier near our destination. I was personally exhausted after not sleeping for 48 hours already so I didn’t do much driving, just drank a bunch of beers to hopefully make myself fall asleep in the car without any luck.
We arrived at 4am after having to pick up Garrett and all other little stops. My intention was to sleep and only get up if there was a fish on. Fate would have me going sleepless. Not more than 30 minutes after the rest of them unpacked and paddled out first their first baits I got a call saying fish on!! I grumbled and tried to go back to bed… They lost that fish. Then they called me again exclaiming they had another fish on. I still ignore the call hoping to sleep. This time it was for real and they had the first fish on the sand by 440am, a very healthy sandbar.
This shark was landed by Blanding on his new Makaira 50w, paired with a Barrett Rod he received from Blacktip Challenge 2013.
