North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine August 2016 | Seite 36

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Further Evidence in Support of Banning Bananas on Boats
On my first trip to Key West, Florida to chase tarpon, I was fishing with my good buddy,
Captain Eric Lund. He guides around Islamorada, so it was new water for him. We looked at
Google Earth and picked a route to fish.
As we headed out the channel from the Shark Key boat landing, a tarpon rolled. I picked up a
rod and caught him. My first Florida tarpon trip, new water for Eric, first fish spotted, first cast,
first eat, first hookup, 100# tarpon landed. It was an epic event. Unfortunately, all we had to
photograph the fish was my cell phone.
When we pulled into the landing, I jumped out of the skiff waving my phone, ready to show off
the picture to some other fishing partners. My barefoot planted on a banana some captain
had forced a client to discard. The squishy slippery feeling startled me and I dumped my cell
phone straight into salt water. So much for the picture.