Week Recap

Jackson Downey 

Kelly Griffin Brown

Senior Project

May 15, 2023

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Senior project this week was loaded with many different new activities and faces. Our mentor Jordan, the owner of Ejs fishing carters has been kind enough to take us fishing while keeping us busy with tasks all around his house/works space. We have caught tuna and mahi mahi early mornings, along with building concrete ramps, and a porch in his backyard. 

Mark, Sam, and I have been fishing four times with Jordan, we have caught and eaten over a dozen wonderful fish, mostly tuna. Jordan brings us out at 6am to go slow pitch jig with huge two-pound steel fish-looking cylinders, in 500 feet of water. Just off the bottom, there are blackfin tuna, a smaller and more delicious type of tuna. They travel in schools and are extremely strong fish. Jordan is extremely good at what he does so we manage to catch about 7 tuna a day. We bring this tuna home and cook it into fresh sashimi and nigiri while searing some of it. Not only have we learned how to slow pitch jig; a style of fishing that is only used in South America, we have learned to do an extremity of other things. We learned how to tie five plus knots, we have learned how to dissect and clean a rod, take care of a boat, how to get a captain license, and fillet fish. These are all valuable lessons of living on the water. Jordan has set us up to be captain commercial fishermen. 

Along with the fishing, Jordan has shown us numerous amount of home improvement projects, such as cement making, plumbing, how to run a water and electric circuit, and how to fix an Ac joint. We have learned a lot of life skills that are very useful and can not be taught in school. This is a once-in-a-lifetime trip and opportunity, and it has been a blast so far.



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