Another Fishing Story

Again we are in Florida and another charter fishing boat trip off the coast at West Palm Beach. This time we are at our condo in Fort Lauderdale with my youngest son, Jack, and we were invited by his friend, Alex, to come up to West Palm Beach.West Palm Beach is just a short drive North from us. He said he would arrange a fishing trip with a friend of his. So the three of us, my wife Dorothy, Jack who is on his college break, and I drove up and met them. Dorothy stayed on shore with Alex's wife, but the three of us got on board this private fishing boat with a skipper and his mate.
It was a beautiful sunny day with a slight chop, that means small waves, and we went out a short distance for about 10 or 15 minutes. We could still see the shore line and the swimmers on the beach. The boat slowed down, and the skipper began to put out the fishing lines. It wasn't too long before we caught a fish. To my surprise, it was a barracuda with a mouth full of teeth, very vicious looking.
We stayed in the same area, and we each one of us caught fish, but they were all the same kind, barracuda. In my limited knowledge of fish, I was certainly impressed that these are man-eating fish. I looked around, and, sure enough there was the shore with the swimmers... hmmm
A few minutes later, Jack was pulling in a fish, and while reeling it in, he announced that he had lost it. The skipper said to bring his line in anyway. In comes only 1/2 of a fish, the front half still hooked onto the line, and now dripping blood all over the boat. Evidently another barracuda sensed this one struggling and bit the tail end clean off the fish for its lunch.
Shortly after that we returned to our harbor with our catch of the day. Like the other fishing trip before, I asked the skipper to have one of the fishes mounted. When it arrived at our home, we hung it in our rec room where our pool table was. Now the barracuda, with its mouth wide open was the parking place for the 8-ball. I would like to explain that the teeth of the barracuda do not only have a sharp point on top, but the sides of each tooth are sharp as a razor.