Fred just before the sun came up!
Ahh here she comes! Beautiful!
Good Morning Sunshine!
Storm brewing to the South West!
For the past few years Fred and I sign up for a saltwater fishing tournament that takes place at the end of August. We've never caught anything in previous years but enjoy ourselves. The company that sponsors the tournament has a dinner, door prizes, etc in the evening and we enjoy getting together with friends after a day of fishing. We also take Michael with us to the dinner as this is a family event and they always have door prizes for the kids.
Our day Saturday started at 3am, ugh!! Thank goodness Diana and Larry kept Michael for us so it made it so much easier...We arrived at the bait stand at 5am and decided this year we were going to use live bait and we were going to catch something!! I had spoken with my friend Helen R., who has lived most of her life in Aransas Pass/Rockport area, about where a good fishing spot might be. We don't have a boat so we have to fish from shore, ugh!
She recommended (after talking to her brother) a bridge/causeway in the Rockport area. We found our spot and got everything ready...Fishing poles, bait, me and my camera (lol) and sat down to wait for that HUGE fish to take the bait....Mind you it is dark yet and if you don't have a flashlight (I didn't) you can't see anything. I moved a bit away from Fred down the shore and sat on my camp stool...I noticed a dark spot a few feet from me on shore but thought it was a piece of trash or possibly a dead fish, no big deal...I'd find out what it was when the sun came up!
Fred finally got a bite and started reeling in his line...I ran and grabbed the net and was ready to net his fish...but alas he never got it close enough for me to net it...and he lost it, lol...He was telling me to jump in the water and net it and I was yelling back NO WAY!! You jump in and net it!! So we settled back down for more fishing...Oh my the sun was coming up and the fish were biting and I was torn between the camera and fishing pole...I am sure y'all know what won! Of course the camera, lol...I got some beautiful photos of the Texas Gulf coast sunrise...it was absolutely gorgeous...Fred even managed to catch a fish, a Skipjack. I had a blast watching him get it in as that fish was fighting and even flew out of the water a few times. He caught a few more but only brought one into shore...I on the other hand was sitting on my little camp stool fishing rod in hand and gagging as I had been sitting next to a dead raccoon, Ewww....Nasty....I moved but the stench stayed with me the rest of the day...After I had moved and was quiet bored...camera around my neck, fishing pole in hand, day-dreaming...I had something hit my bait...and it hit HARD...I yelled and fell off the camp stool...LOL...Fred was laughing his butt off and asking me what I was doing...When I told him something Big just hit my bait he laughed and said it was probably a crab...I told him that was no crab!! I didn't even have time to set the hook so whatever it was got a free meal as my bait was gone, grr...So much for fishing!! LOL...I've never had much luck saltwater fishing...give me my bass pole and freshwater any day!
After the sun rose and the fish stopped biting we moved to a few other spots and still no luck...So we stopped and ate lunch and headed home to clean up and pick Michael up for the dinner...It was a very long day and even though we didn't catch any decent fish we still enjoyed ourselves...We are seriously thinking Kayaks next year!!
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