), smell of the early morning salt life, and all those horses hammering my tune. Got so in tune to it, I ran past the first three spots convincing myself that these boys came to catch a fish, not be schooled on the art of search and maybe catch a pig. Twelve miles later, I had my speed fix and all my frustrations from the week before were back in the wind around Appalach. Set into the first bar and first cast, My BIL's buddy hangs a fat 19" trout. In the livewell. Today may work out after all. Im trying to think of what to fish with this water clarity or lack of. Both of my new partners have on the old standby(GULP) and Im throwing an M52. About the third cast my orange and gold beauty gets smashed. I'm thinking with the viciousness of the strike , Im getting me a poon scale. Several runs in to it, I remember Poons jump. No poon for BB 
, The fattest, slimiest, nastiest, stank, ol crusty, raunchy,ol stank nasty SNOTCAT youve ever seen. Head looked like a dayum shovel. Of course, 4 of the 6 hooks are buried in slime and my orange and gold beauty is now about a pound and this opaque yet irridescent snot cat silver color. Ten minutes later, Im back in action with a new plug. Twitch, twitch, sweep, pause. Booyah!! 18.5 inch mini pig. Into the livewell. My BIL's starting to feel the heat by this time. Im smelling skunksville for the poor ol boy. A few trout later between myself and my BIL's buddy and Cliff(BIL) finally hooks up. His first ever trout and if the captain had enough sense to put the dang camera on the boat, I could have shared it with you guys. Must of had my mind on a woman 
! We tread on for about another hour and decide its time to move on to where the water turns green. Start picking up flounder like nobodys business. Not exactly what we came for, but who the helk turns down flounder?? I hang a pig on an EXUDE. 22" flounder. Into the livewell. You know , there's something I ve always wondered about putting flounder in the livewell. When you cover the bottom with them, where do they go???? They dont swim around very well, so I have no idea. Anyways, we fished on a bit and decided to go check out the new tourney spot since we were only about ten miles from it, the wind had stopped blowing, and it was now so hot, if you asked Satan to come pick up a sacrificial virgin, he'd issue a rain check. About three miles west of the river, I hear the long beep followed by three intermittent beeps that says BB is a dumbazz. Funny thing about carrying two gallons of oil on the boat at all times, doesnt do a DAYUM bit of good if you dont put it in the tank. Slam the brakes on BB, kill the motor. Look at the plastic oil tank and the sides are sucked in so hard it looked like Dolly Parton naked wearing a weight lifting belt. (Forgive me) DUMBAZZ, I think to myself as I loosen the cap on the tank to try and fill her back up. I reluctantly pull the cowling off the 225 and thankfully the reserve tank is still about 3/4 full. Of course, being as smart as the folks at Mercury are and as dumb as I am, the motor goes into limp mode and will not run over 3000rpms. Its a long ride from Carrabelle to SGI only going twenty something mph. Couldnt help it, knew the motor was struggling but had to stop by ol faithful and try to put the boys on some boss reds. Not much current but did hang a 10+lb jack crevalle.
Dang good fight, but let it go to fight another day. Eased over to the crosses and fished around and started slinging topwater. Even in shallow the water clarity was somewhere between a sewer tank and a cup of cocoa. Got a few blowups but nothing to show for the money. Got to thinking about some cold
at the blue parrot and eased on to the ramp. On the trailer by about 3:30 or 4:00 in the Blue Parrot by 4:15. Absolutely demolished a dozen raw and some refreshments. Decided to go ahead and have supper as I had a long trip back and the Snappa plate looked promising, no disappointment there. All in all , great to be on the water with family and friends and I look forward to seeing you guys and personally handing each one of you an azz whooping in the tourney!!! 
Sorry for lots of werdz BD, I ve been holding in my emotions for a while!!! 
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Nice read
