One of my famous archived “placeholder” pix while I think of something better to post (or at least more wordy—fish are always good, words or not).

This was from a video-shoot at Tarpon Cay a couple of summers ago. This day was fantastic—with babies, juvies and bigger boys up to about 80 pounds—until we noticed “some clouds” between us and town. Within an hour or so of this photo being taken, we were heading back through a savage series of storms. We were in an open boat, on open water, lighting striking the ocean on either side, and with rain so heavy that all visual and GPS references vanished. It got a little spooky at that point.

A couple of very close lightning strikes as we sat in an idling boat (no directional references, so we were all stuck) made it even spookier. Then, the rain slowed just enough for our guide to see a beacon light on a nearby island, and he went for it full throttle. Got back just in time for another wave of storms that dumped more rain than I have ever seen come down in the space of an hour. That’s what we get for pushing the filming a little too long. Not going to push it like that ever again!

Next morning, all had cleared and the fishing was hot all over—but a hurricane changed its course, and we had to get out of Dodge (well, the Yucatan) 48 hours later.

In case you want to see the end results (we missed out on a day and a half, but still got good footage overall), here you go: