Hit the water before 7am on the 4th (Also my 3 year wedding anniversary) with Chris G. and his neighbor. Chris and I both have been suffering from Skunkalotocuss lately and have been trying to break the trend. Chris brought his neighbor because he's new and the beginners luck might rub off. Well his neighbor is the 1st to hook a fish
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and I think great now another guy to show me up as Chris always catches something because he throws those majic gulps
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A real ladies man if you know what I mean)...anyhow it turns out to be a catfish but it looked good with his rod bent over while he was fighting it. It even caused a mechanical falure which delayed his fishing a while. Chris was the next to hook up wuth a blue fish which he said was his 1st
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and it was also his 1st fish on the Gold spoon
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After that I started to get hook up with the trout after drifting further out into the grass flat. All were dinks but I did catch them on a variety of lures which is good as I like the learning process and i'm still trying to learn what works and when. We probably would have caught more or bigger fish if we had covered more area and moved out to deeper water. I did see one big shark swim under my yak while releasing a trout but he was just passing thru and caused no drama for me or the trout.
I got to see Chris fall out of his boat (Sorry Chris) but I have to say he did land on his feet avoiding total saturation.
We saw a wader who according to the new guy had a stringer of redfish or maybe it was just fish and one red. It didn't dawn on me till I gotto the put in that the limit on reds was 1 fish (according to my law stick) and I was already close to the put in and did not feel like paddling out and educating the guy so he caught a break. We were off the water by 11am.
My health has been good lately and i'm greatful to GOD that i'm able to fish a little more.....We all will have that last time out and I want to get in as many trips as possible before then.
I think I can dance.
Bill
Ultimate 14.5
Purple Emotion GS