Sea, Sand and Sky: sun fish

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Different Sites, New Start

First day back at work from the long weekend, and I got a chance to go to a new site, and my morning at Community Boating Incorporated turned out to be great. I caught four sunfish in the first few minutes on the job. I caught the sunfish by using corn as bait and I guess they loved it. We also caught two eels in the eel trap. This is the first time I have ever seen an eel up so close. They were really slimy and their color turned from brown to yellow after being in the touch tank for a while. We took both eels and two fish that we caught and use them for bait for our second site at Courageous Sailing Center in Charlestown. I got to to use the eels as live bait. I didn't catch anything, but it was cool using live bait.

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-Andy Gomez

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