... so the mass media threat of an oil driven Armageddon served as a bit of a wake up call that I make some time to enjoy the outdoors a bit more.With Marine's Dream largely having served as nothing but a really big lawn ornament for weeks, I called my buddy Sharkman and we lined up a Sunday trip out of Econfina.
I was hoping for a wind free / flat water day to get out on some keeper grouper but it wasn't meant to be. So we stopped short of a few spots I wanted to target with the hope of at least finding a cobe or two, and find them we did.
Sharkman had the cobe hothand with two keepers brought to the boat. The first was a good half inch over but we were optimistic we would hook more than one and being concerned with shrinkage threw a tag in the first cobe and let him live to be caught another day.
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While we didn't catch any keeper grouper, we did catch enough shorts to keep us entertained. We left them biting not because we ran out of daylight but because the winds didn't let down and instead just kept steadily increasing as storm clouds slowly built. We decided a few reds were in order so we hit a few favorite spots. They didn't let us down. Keeping the hot hand, Sharkman boated our first red.
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Fun day on the water and already eager to get back out again.
That's just the "too much work" showing through. I truly had a blast but was just about beat by the time we wrapped up the trip. Prepping for the trip called for cutting 5 acres of grass, sawing and burning a big oak that had fallen in my yard, and a late night hooking up the boat and rigging rods! But would do it every day if'n I could! 
Put me down for the next one though 