"SoFarrell" wrote in message
news:1123274127.ced9754adda6128d7eb50799477609b0@t eranews...
Anyone discussing this? I don't want to wade through 4000000000 posts .


Went today with the kids. Netted up some white bait off Barefoot Beach and
headed out to a nearshore reef out about 3 miles. My older son and I caught
a few keeper snapper, a couple of spanish macks, and several undersized gag
grouper. We then decided to move back inshore to fish the pass for a snook.
The current was ripping through there at about 5-6 knots, and it was hard to
hold position. I kept the boat in slow forward postion while my 5 1/2 son
was casting a shiner out. He got a big hit that pulled some drag but then
broke him off. Some idiot in a Century must have seen him fighting the
fish, because he tried anchoring up current about 50 feet from me. Dumbass.
There was no way an anchor would have held in that current. He of course
broke loose and came difting at me. In an attempt to keep him from
slamming into me, I cut the wheel to port and slowly moved forward just as
12 PWC's came shooting through the pass rocking me side to side. I got on
the throttle too hard and sent my son stumbling backward, until he fell and
hit the back of his head on the steering mechanism on the outboard. This
of course scared the **** out of me. I iced his head and had my wife meet
me at one of the boat ramps nearby. She picked him up and took him to the
ER, since the knot on the back of his head grew to the size of a small
orange. The doc ordered a CT scan as a precaution, and it thankfully came
back negative.

I met them at the hospital, and my son's first words were "when I get
better, can we go back out fishing again?" His second question was "I
didn't dent your boat, did I?"