Cay Sal 2008
When we got down they stayed a decent distance away. We swam to the
wall and were amazed. Sheer drop off into the abyss. A fantastic variety
of fish, corals and sponges lined the wall. Fish were everywhere.
Huge black triggers, beautiful queen triggers, huge groupers, French and Queen
angels. We went over the edge to 143 feet and entered another world. Words
can not describe it. In the distance more and more sharks would appear, then
fade off, all patrolling the drop off from 100-200 feet, all heading in the same
direction. We saw dozens.
Heading back we saw Robbie's line drop in the water and land at the base of a
coral head. Bam, a red grouper came out and took the bait and Robbie
started reeling him to the surface. Two huge barracudas came out of
nowhere and headed for the grouper but gave up at about 30 feet. A few
minutes later Robbie let the undersized grouper go and it headed for the bottom.
This time the barracudas did not give up and he was gone in an instant. 5
or 6 fish joined in on the feast. Seconds later the bait came down again
and a big foot long black trigger took it. Robbie started to reel him in
and he was no more than a foot off the bottom when a big reef shark flew in and
ate him whole, tail first, hook and all. Now Robbie had a big reef shark
on the line. The blood and excitement brought in more and more sharks and
we got nervous.
We all got out our knives and headed up. We were at 15 feet for our
safety stop, watching the frantic darting of the sharks looking for food and
noticing the bottom was quickly devoid of fish life. Then they started
looking up. You can see it in the pictures how they look up and head up.
3, 6, 9 more. It was time to go. We got in the boat, each one of us
becoming more nervous at our place in line.
After we all got in the boat we all burst into our versions of what just
happened. Then the sharks stared hitting the little red ball we had
floating at the end of our surface line. The seriousness set in and we
were all quiet for a moment.
On the way home we caught a big Bull Dolphin (Mahi Mahi) and a bunch of
smaller ones and had a great time fishing. The sun set over the weed line
and we headed home. I watched the radar closely and felt good to
finally be in home waters. But what a day...
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