T Land, Captain DP, and I met at the ramp at 0600 to do some prefishing and bait catching. We knew there was some bad weather on the way, so we were going to launch, prefish/catch bait, trailer the boat and sit out the rain, then relaunch at another location to catch a different variety of bait.
That's pretty much what we did, with the exception that we never made it back to the truck before the monsoon came. We got caught in driving rain, less than 100 yds of visability, with winds in the neighborhood of 50 kts and lightning popping all around us. It was hairy there for a few minutes, but Captain DP got us through the worst of it. He had his boat handling skills put to the test in these conditions, and passed with ease.
Once the rain slowed a bit we got back to the bait catching. T Land and I threw our nets over and over, successful on most of our attempts, and made relatively short work of the job. All in all we had 7 dozen Bull Minnows, 8 dozen Finger Mullet, and a few dozen Pinfish when we made it back to the ramp... soaking wet, and laughing about it. We made our move and found 2 dozen nice Croakers to round out our bait tank.
The afternoon was wearing on, and with the Captain's Meeting at 1830, we elected to head in so there would be time to clean up before we needed to be at Day Break Marina. The Captain's Meeting was nice, most of the local teams from last weekend's IFA event were there, and the food was excellent. We are all looking forward to putting these baits to good use tomorrow.
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