The alarm clock sounded at 0345. Man that's early! I drove to my parents house to pick up my dad, our friend "Scoot", and my boat, that I'd left the night before in preparation for today. We got to the ramp and were in the water by 0445. Lines in at 0500 and the fishing begins.we started by flipping live shrimp under the dock lights until the sun came up. This resulted in 6 or so small Specks and 1 underside redfish. Once the sun was up we moved and began dropping shrimp in a little deeper water that got us into big pinfish and a couple of missed bigger bites. From there it was onto the grass flats where we found our biggest Trout of the day at around 2 lbs.
Another move and, while looking for a redfish, we got into some really nice Mangrove Snapper and a bonus Scamp. Not our target species, but great in the grease anyway. Four snappers later we made a short run and found our flounder, we caught three, all about the same size. Lacking only our redfish for the slam we dedicated the remainder of our time in search of a fish that was as elusive as affordable health care. Well, I pay through the nose for insurance and couldn't find a redfish either! We did manage to find a Spanish mackerel that was around 4.5lbs but no matter how hard we tried we couldn't turn him into a redfish!
In all it was a great day, spent with good people. The target fish didn't exactly cooperate, but we had a lot of fun... which is the important part anyway! Thanks Dad and Scoot, and yes we're on for next year!!
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