A most excellent day. Tried something new and it worked.
Got about a 30 minute late start, but fiddling around on the internet will do that to a guy.
All the way to the Lighthouse the little voice was saying, "You're running late. You better think of a back-up plan. It's Sunday morning and you're running late. The parking lot will be full by the time you get there."
A lot he knows. I arrive at the lighthouse parking lot to see one other car and he just got there.
Canoe in the water and loaded by 6:45.
"There's a lot of wind for this early in the mornin'."
"Yeah, but it's blowing out of the west. Gettin' where we want to go will be a breeze."
"Stop it, you're killing me. Gettin' back is gonna' be a chore."
"It might change by then."
"Oh, it'll change alright. It'll be blowing harder."
Fished while drifting with the wind most of the mile-and-a-half to where I wanted to go, the tide just beginning to fall. Started up one side of a fairly deep wash in a wide creek. Nothing so far. Decided to try the other side around some oysterbars. Nobody hungry around here either, but there are a bunch of mullet on top of that bar. Hmmm.
This is the new thing I've been thinking of trying. Don't remember hearing of anybody else doing it. At least not successfully.
Anchored the canoe off the outer end of the bar, clipped on my dive knife, slipped on my longblades, mask and snorkel, gloves. Ran up the flag. Picked up my Riffe Metal Tech #1 and over the side.
"Man, I don't remember these bands being this hard to load."
"You're just out of practice. Aren't you glad you didn't bring one of the bigger guns?"
Swam about half-way down the down current side of the bar.
"There's a mullet. There's a bunch of mullet."
"You want mullet, or you want to hold out for a sheepshead?"
"Shoot the mullet. We can look for sheepies later around some of these rock holes."
"There's some more."
First shot, in what seems like forever, drew scales, but no fish.
"Just pulled some feathers off that one."
Got back to the boat with two fish in two more shots.
Started checking out some rock holes. The first two weren't as rocky as I thought, mainly just sand. The third had some good rock, but wasn't as deep as I thought. Found another hole that looks real good. Good rock, good depth, and this one had a lot of mullet in it and a few reds. Never did find any sheepshead. By now most of water has gone with the falling tide. The last of the falling tide was too murky for spearing. Hard to shoot anything when you can't see past the end of your gun. There's just a few inches over the grass with a heavy ripple on the water. Poling along.
"There's a swirl just ahead."
"There's another and another andanotherand........Holy Jumpin' Jehosaphat....look at all the redfish."
Up to now I hadn't caught anything, and now I'm watching about 30 reds haul boogey away from the boat.
"Well........Let's go back to that wash and try for trout."
I get to the beginning of the wash and pole along watching the reds on the bottom squirt away from the boat.
"There's one, and there's one, and there's two,........"
I pull up on a sandbar to get out and wade. Couple small ladyfish on a Yo-Zuri Mag Darter knock-off. Then a trout. Yay, a trout. Undersized, but still a trout, then another undersize trout. A few casts later BAM. A 27" red. That wallered all through the trout hole and, no more trout. At all. Couldn't find them again.
About 3 I called the game. The winds been picking up. The sky is starting to darken off to the north-west and it has lightning in it. Picked up a half-dozen blue crabs in the landing net on the way back to the parking lot. Got everything loaded up and tied down.
Final tally: 1 27" red, 3 mullet and six blue crabs.
A little fine tuning and I think this spearfishing the oysterbars and rock holes for mullet and sheepshead will work well.
The first big fat drops started to fall just as I was heading out the gate.
Edit-27" red, not 37".
I was tired yesterday. Haven't even caught a 37" red in recent memory. The biggest was 34". A successful release.
his moto is "if ya can't catch em, shoot em" 
