George Thompson has been a fishing and hunting guide for more than 20 years. But on Oct. 12 he decided to do a bit of fun fishing with his family instead of guiding clients.
Aboard were his two sons, 3.5-year-old George Jr., 2-year-old Jayden and their mom Sara Schroder.
“I’d hooked a huge catfish a week or so before that day, so we anchored nearby in a 30-foot-deep hole to soak a cut skipjack bait,” Thompson tells Wired2fish. “We were fishing about 10 minutes when something took the bait on a 9/0 circle hook…