The shark attacked my line so I grabbed him. It was a very interesting fight; I had a hard time keeping the tip of the rod out of the water. It was powerful. It was also the largest fish of the day although Jill had one get away. Jill's fish started running so hard that she had to hand her rod to the captain. Captain James tried to keep increasing the drag but was afraid that the line would break. In the end the fish took all her line, sinker and hook. It might have been bigger....but it wasn't in the boat.
It was quite an interesting day fishing with Captain James in his rented boat. He first took us snorkeling to pick up some conch. The captain, Jill, Carolyn and I jumped in with our snorkel gear and did spot a number of conch but were not able to dive down to pick them up. James had no problem and he gathered about 24 for us. We then went out into the ocean in this small boat in waves that we would never thing of travelling in. The swells were 4-5 footers but even worse were the 6-8 footers that we climbed when travelling back through the inlet. We did manage to fish some despite the waves and caught a number of 
Strawberry Groupers, some Grunts and a Triggerfish...and of course the biggest of them all, my shark.
After being dropped off on an island to allow the girls to do some shelling we headed back so that James to clean our catch. In all we ended up with 6 meals of fresh conch, and 4 meals of fish fillets. It was a fairly good day.
We were hoping to head off to Little Harbour today but it started raining and we decided to stay put for another day. It is a good thing because when I turned on my radar unit to see the extent of the showers, it blew a fuse on my chartplotter after a few minutes. It took awhile to find as it has never happened before. Richard on finally broke a clamp while preparing to leave so he too was scrambling and then the only pump out guy in this area did not show up and two boats desperately needed those services. I guess we were just meant to stay another night.
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