Fred and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary in Mexico. We flew into Cancun and took a ferry to Isla Mujeres.
It was a 20 minute ferry ride.
The first night we were there, Fred saw some Mexicans fishing off of the deck on the beach. They were fishing for barracuda. This was the load they hauled in that night. Fernando, the main fisherman, invited Fred to come back to fish later in the week.
The next day, Fred went out to try his hand at fishing. They wait until the bait (sardines) swim by and drop a net to catch them. We were out for a couple of hours and the bait never came while we were there. We went and got ready for dinner and went back out. They had finally gotten some bait and were fishing. They had caught some.
Then all of sudden there was a great commotion on the other deck. One of the other guys had a fish on his line. (he was fishing with just a line, no pole). It was a struggle to get it in to shore.
No wonder it was such a struggle - look at the size of that fish!
On our last night there, Fred once again tried his hand at fishing for barracuda. I got a video of the sardines swimming by.
After catching the bait, the fishing began.
Fred got one!
