It was all fun and games until our luck ran out and our 20lb fluorocarbon wasn't up to snuff and I lost my favorite Poppin mullet to a large Spanish. However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise as I changed colors and and on the first cast I caught a nice 22in trout.
And I proceeded to catch the biggest ladyfish I'd ever seen as well, and while they may not be edible unless you're quarantined for longer than so far, a school of them makes a good time. We also got a good overflight by a c130 as well.
We drifted in with the tide and I finally caught a good doormat, flounder have eluded me as I seem to only catch shorts and this alone made my wife pleased about me taking a day trip instead of finishing my honeydos.
Well after the tide started coming in, the weather man's call for 15mph wind came as well and it got fairly rough, at one time on the drift we were doing 5mph just with the wind and things got much rougher. Tragedy struck soon after as my beloved legend inshore snapped in half during a cast, guess when things are normal I can see how good their warranty is. We decided to call it since we had a decent box of fish and had not stopped to get breakfast. The Karen's didn't have to worry about us buying up all the local supplies, we didn't stop anywhere ahead of time and our supplies consisted of 2 packs of crackers and 4 bottles of water so we didn't complain too much about calling at 230 and heading to Riverside cafe to grab a bite to eat. The only thing in our way was the fact that somewhere along the road from 98 to the light house is a bearing buddy that my trailer decided to sling off. Thankfully Shields was open and got me squared away, their ramp was being used a bit more than the one at the lighthouse. All in all a solid day:
No complaints for a day trip, that was for sure, however after pulling back into Warwick at 645, I was greeted quite poorly
a quick lift with the backhoe confirmed the worst, the bearings are on the way out so I'll gladly take pleasure in rebuilding a
hub in my pasture and not on the side of the road.
All in all a solid day, 5 keeper trout, 2 Spanish, a bluefish, a flounder, a couple of catfish, and who knows how many poor man's tarpon made for a great day on the water and got our heads clear. We didn't catch many short trout, the trout were solid as we had two that we were worried when we were measuring then we're going to go over 20 but were 19 and a few tenths. We caught pretty much everything in 5ft except the flounder was in 3ft. The pink and yellow popping mullet did the best, we had a few bites on a pink pro dog, margarita lime chicken worked the best for trout tricks under a popping cork. The plugs worked better as we got a lot of short strikes on the popping cork from Spanish and trout hitting the orange tails on the trout tricks. The Spanish didn't care for spoons surprisingly as I tried my mackerel rig with no takers. I also had no luck with my chatterbait and pretty much no luck on suspending plugs, even when they were worked fast.
Those are HUGE fish. Oh wait, it's the picture size. 
