Great Catch on a Great Day!

[wc870]

Super cool, sounds like you got a good workout bringing that one in. Congratulations

[TDMartin25]

Rojo, your picture brought back a good memory and story....when I was in high school, the brother of a good friend of mine had come home on leave from the Marine Corps. He was a helicopter pilot and flew CH-53's, the Marine Corps' biggest transport helicopter. Anyway, one day while he was in, he brought my friend and I water skiing, and while he was pulling my friend on a slalom ski, we hit something with the prop of the boat that dramatically slowed us down. When we looked behind the boat, we had hit a giant paddlefish (or spoonbill, as we called them), and the fish was flopping on the surface because he was cut pretty badly. Because he was going to die, we threw him in the boat and took the fish home, and their dad cooked a delicious tomato based courtboullion over rice. It was one of the best meals I had ever eaten. Not long after that, my friend's brother became the pilot of Marine One and flew the first President George Bush and then was the pilot for President Bill Clinton. Sadly, when he finished that assignment, he was working as a CH-53 instructor while he was on the waiting list to become a pilot in the space shuttle program, and the young marine pilot he was training, crashed into the ocean, and they were both killed. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. He was a huge inspiration to me, and one of the main reasons I joined the Marine Corps, so your photo brought back some special memories. Thank you.