This is my post for #freewrite Friday prompt coercion by
After Florida passed the net ban we bought an old cabin cruiser, it was a 26 foot Stamas. We needed a bigger boat to fish offshore if we were to continue net fishing. We took the Stamas home and stripped everything out of it, took the cabin off, cut the floor out and scrapped all the floatation foam out of it, all we had was a bare fiberglass hull. Then we rebuilt it, we put a small cabin off to one side and a power roller on the other side, the roller is to help get the net back from deep water. It turned out to be a good boat except when it came to times we had to pull it out of the water, for the most part, we kept it tied to the fish house dock. To this day I do not know what was wrong with me but my husband had to use coercion on me every time we needed to pull it out of the water. I drove this boat in a fleet of 30 to 50 other boats and never had a problem but as soon as my husband said we were pulling it out of the water my heart would start racing, my hand would shake, I had a hard time breathing. I guess it was panic attacks. This only happened when we pulled it out, so I got to thinking why am I acting like this and came to the conclusion that as I drove the boat onto the trailer I could not see my husband standing at the trailer winch and maybe I was afraid I was going to run him over.
We had to stop offshore fishing because we were spending more on fuel than we were catching. We had to be out of state waters, which is 3 miles. The problem was the fish like to follow the reef and it is inside the limit, only after the weather was bad did they pull offshore, and then it was to rough for us to fish.
I caught this little angelfish/spadefish in my crab trap today.
This redfish was too big to keep, it was 34 inches, I can not keep any over 27
I caught 17 trout that weighed 32 pounds, I did not count the jacks but they weighed 30 pounds
