Fishing Trip - Fort Lauderdale

I took a some guys from work along with our customer on a fishing trip in Fort Lauderdale this week.

Its not something I was necessarily looking forward to, I have never been on this type of fishing trip and probably had some preconceived notions to what it would be like.

I ended up having a great time, with some good memories. I am not going to show pictures of who went with me or list names. I will say we got there the day before, went out the night before and one of the group didn't make the boat the next morning. He had to retrieve his cell phone from someone named George that was texting our group text when we thought we were chatting with our friend...

I sent Tania this picture just to show her the view from our hotel bar at the marina, she thought I was sending her a picture of the boat we were going out on. It happens to be the Sovereign a little boat with 8k square feet of living space. Its also for sale for a paltry 32.5 million.

 Our boat showed up a few hours later.

The following morning we headed out at 8am. The houses in the area were quite impressive.

This was one of the many superyachts  we passed on the way out of the marina. Out of curiosity I Googled "Vibrant Curiosity" and found the superyacht had its own wiki page. Apparently the $111,000,000 superyacht has a fuel capacity of 285.000 liters which at $2.50 a gallon for marine diesel would cost around $189k just to fill her up. Note what appears to be a Eurocopter on the helo pad.

The first hour or so while we were just off the coast trying to catch bait this was all over the place apparently on maneuvers.

 Cell phone coverage was pretty impressive, at one time we were 30+ miles out.

We ended up catching limit of kings and one albacore. It was a beautiful day and the water was very calm till we were returning around 5pm.

We passed by these at the end of the day on the way back into the marina. This is the "Seven Seas" and apparently belongs to Steven Spielberg. When I looked it up the information I could find was he is building another one because this one is too small. In the interim he rents it out for 1.2 million a month. At that rate with no interest it would take him 13 years to pay it off.

 

This military looking yacht is "Scat" which belongs to a former Microsoft software engineer.

This is me with one of the kings, I caught two, but which two who knows. All the fish went to the motel and they cleaned them and had a big fish fry. They served the albacore raw it was very tasty.

I wont explain this one, the right people know what it is.