left the dock at 8 AM to try to catch some fish. Rigged a couple of artificial lures and trolled out to 700 ft. Trolled along the coast from Port Everglades to north of Boca. After about 3 hours with not even a cutoff, decided to come in and try some bottom fishing. Stopped in a spot that looked good on the fish finder and dropped anchor. 75 ft, just outside the reefs. Started rigging some cut bait when out of the cabin crawls a 36 " long bright green Iguana. Startled me at first but I didn't want to chase it off the boat out in the ocean. It
ran around the cockpit when ever I moved towards one of the poles and finally climbed up on a gunnel and jumped off and swam towards shore. Wonder if it could swim the 2-3 miles.
Anyway, I fished for about an hour and only thing biting were small grunt and very small snapper. Started the engines and started pulling up the anchor with the windlass when Port engine shuts down. A long rope had wrapped around the prop. The rope was covered with coral and barnacles. It probably came off an old lobster trap.
I was just about to lower the anchor and jump in to take a look when along comes a couple of young guys in a small boat flying a dive flag. they were preparing to dive over the reef. They spotted the long rope trailing off my stern and offered to cut it loose. Spent about 45 min. getting the rope untangled and would not take any money that I offered. What great guys. Did I luck out??
Pulled about 50 ft of that rope on board and took it back to the dock in a cooler. when other dock mates asked what I caught today, I said "Look in the cooler".
All in all it was a beautiful day on the ocean.
P.S. Coast guard and News helocopters were hovering over a big Whale Shark that was free diving right off Fort lauderdale beach.
ran around the cockpit when ever I moved towards one of the poles and finally climbed up on a gunnel and jumped off and swam towards shore. Wonder if it could swim the 2-3 miles.
Anyway, I fished for about an hour and only thing biting were small grunt and very small snapper. Started the engines and started pulling up the anchor with the windlass when Port engine shuts down. A long rope had wrapped around the prop. The rope was covered with coral and barnacles. It probably came off an old lobster trap.
I was just about to lower the anchor and jump in to take a look when along comes a couple of young guys in a small boat flying a dive flag. they were preparing to dive over the reef. They spotted the long rope trailing off my stern and offered to cut it loose. Spent about 45 min. getting the rope untangled and would not take any money that I offered. What great guys. Did I luck out??
Pulled about 50 ft of that rope on board and took it back to the dock in a cooler. when other dock mates asked what I caught today, I said "Look in the cooler".
All in all it was a beautiful day on the ocean.
P.S. Coast guard and News helocopters were hovering over a big Whale Shark that was free diving right off Fort lauderdale beach.
