Happy Birthday Eli Sharking

Eli read the entire Book of Mormon with help from mom and dad. As a reward he got to choose an adventure. He chose to go shark fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. We got up really early on his birthday and took Grandpa Baker and Carter and went fishing for sharks. So Sharking?

Here is sunrise over the gulf. 

Two best buddies! Not too bad for getting up at 5am!

My buddy. 

Here is Rusty our guide. We caught 3 sharks. Smallest was 3.5 feet biggest was 5 feet and change and the guide said weighed 80 pounds. May have been exaggerated. They are fishers after all. 

This one we kept. The other two we released. The big one was really fun to wrestle in. Phone was in my pocket so these are the only pics we took. 

You can't just deadlift a large shark out of the water. You need to rope and pull it up. Here's how they do it. 

This was touching boat floor. 

Here is roughly where we were.