Fiddled around the house until after lunch. Couldn't decide whether to go huntin' and where or fishin' and where. Pretty much a forgone conclusion that I didn't want to go to the Wakulla, again. Ever fish one place successfully so much you get tired of going there?
By the time I got figured out what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go, I figured I might as well have lunch before I left. Also decided since I was getting such a late start, it was a sho'nuff bet I wouldn't be back until after dark and I still needed to stop for ice, so decided to take the car. Got to Wakulla Beach and it was clear as a bell over land and foggy on the water. Glad I brought my compass. Getting ready to launch the canoe and some woman in a car asked if I could help find her husband. He was out in a kayak, lost in the fog. Well that shouldn't be hard, did he have a compass. Of course not.
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Between 2:30 and 3:00 the fog started to lift. About 3:00 found me up Middle Creek with a 16" trout on a Catch 2000. Released that one. A few minutes later found me with a 24" red on the same lure. That one went in the cooler. Fished my way up the creek, riding a nicely rising tide, picking up one more red, a twin of the first. Got up to where the creek starts to peter out, turned around and headed out. Back where I caught the trout and first red had something boil twice on a 7M MirrOLure. Missed it both times and couldn't get it to come back again. By now it's pushing 5:00 and the sand-gnats and mosquitoes have reinforcements arriving steadily. There's not a breath of air and the whole bay is as slick as the glass on your monitor. Note to self: Put bug repellent back in pack.
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The lost kayaker's wife wasn't at the landing when I got back. I figure either he made it in, or she gave up and left him out there.