One more Belize trip before hitting the road

Back in Illinois now.

Took one last fishing trip out of Placencia, using the kayak to drift along a freshwater salt water seam in the seagrass at the lagoon mouth. The dinks were cooperative, but nothing of size made an appearance for quite some time.

So after several hours of catching small jacks, schoolmaster snappers and blue-lined grunts, the final bite of the day bent the rod double and pulled the rod tip under the boat, the drag wasn't quite ready to respond. Whatever that fish was, it didn't slow down much before it snapped the line.

I don't know how many big fish I've lost to an overly stiff drag. Need to remember to keep it limber by pulling some line through it now and then.

Ah well. There's always next time.

For now, it's time to find the Barbie pole and some nice Illinois panfish just right for a 5 year old.