This years Fla Keys fishing report

Glenn and I arrived home at 11:00 PM last Monday night. We had driven eighteen hours after leaving Pine Island, Florida. We had stopped there to fish Speckled Trout after leaving Marathon in the keys.
The keys fishing was the best that we have ever had. We were able to get our seventeen ft. Carolina Skiff out to the nine mile reef off of Marathon on five consecutive days. For once the wind stayed down. We hooked two Hammerhead sharks simultaneously on our heavy rods, but the rods were not heavy enough. The fight lasted about five minutes at which point the line got cut. We weren't fishing with shark rigs.
We also hooked up with two Bonitos at the same time on light rods. My fish stripped half of the line from my reel before I could get the rod from the holder, and then snapped it. Glenn's fish fought for forty five minutes before we boated it. It weighed about twenty five LBs. He caught it on fourteen LB. test line and a crappie hook that we were using to catch Yellowtail Snappers. The hook broke as the fish dropped in the boat.
We figured that we probably caught five hundred fish during the two week trip. We released everything that we weren't going to eat each night. We caught several varieties of snapper, and grouper, as well as Hogfish, Parrotfish, Grunts, Speckled trout, Spanish,King, and Cero Mackeral, sharks, and the list could go on for ever. We bought a book of Fla. fishes, and several of the fish weren't even in the book.
The kids from St. Mary's college were there on spring break and we shared our deep fried catch with them. They all loved it!
We are already planning next year's trip!!
The Ol' Curmudgeon