Happy Hippy New Year At Bald Point 4/20
Posted: April 20th, 2003, 10:44 pm
Well yall hope its not too long winded. Got up at the crack of 10:00am. Went to church and had some lunch. It was My wife and my 1st year annerversy, Easter, Hippy New year, and the Last day of my fishing license being good. I tell ya thats a good way to remember your anniversary. We figured we take the 5 month old boy to the beach for the first time. So we loaded up and made it there about 3:30pm. Ofcourse I was in no rush knowing that high tide was about 5:45. There were about 10 fisherpeople fishing from shore and 5-6 out on the bars. The water was not only tanic, as it has been for the pass few weeks, but it was also dirty. So I rigged up a chartruse 1/4oz jig head, with a bright green and pink assassin, with glitter in it, under a bobbin cork ofcourse. I made it out to the first bar and started fishing. First ten minutes I was there down went the cork and off peeled the line. I was sure it was a big red by the way it pulled so hard and seemed to stay close to the bottom. Luckily it wasn't ( who wouldda ever thunk I would say that). Well I only said that because it was a 28 1/2 trout. My biggest Trout yet. If it had been a red back to the mating grounds it would have gone. I fished that bar for another 45 minutes and caught another fat 19 inch trout. I had about 30 minutes till high tide and just knew the fishing was about to go off. Then I heard it. The scream of a 5 month old baby boy 200 yards away haveing about as much as he could stand of his mother....or maybe it was the sand in his shorts. Anyway headed back to the beach with a big grin on my face. I talked to a bunch of fisherman doing the shore fishing thing..all wanting to know what I was using. I told them. Everyone I spoke to were using live shrimp and not a one had any praises to sing about their bait of choice. I did see a lot of bait moving through and as I left there were some big schools of mullet crusing over the bars. Well thats it....Oh yeah What a great way to end my first year with my wife!!!!