Spring Warrior 12-3-11
Posted: December 5th, 2011, 11:27 am
I managed to get enough done around the house Saturday morning that I felt like I deserved a quick fishing trip that afternoon. I put in around 4:00 to catch the first of the incoming until it got dark. After an hour or so of trying everything in the boat for 1 keeper, I decided the grass was thin enough to try a Super Spook. Almost every cast produced a strike from then on. Short trout after missed trout after short trout, I was having a ball!, but still only one keeper in the boat. I called my last cast, and it was a long one. Then it finaly happened. A nice 24 inch trout landed on my plug and a treble hook sank into its belly. By the time I managed to free the treble hooks from both my landing net and the fish, the fish was dead and the sun was down, so I threw it in the cooler and headed in.
Next morning my buddy Ben calls and says he wants to go fishing but his motor is out of commission, so I felt obligated to take him
We get there at high tide and fish the outgoing. First 20 minutes, no fish. 30 minutes later, we had our limit, with 2 over 20 and were getting bored with throwing trout back, so we decided to head up a creek and see what other species we might find. Ben caught a flounder, but that was it for the creek. On the way out of the creek, we saw a large school of mullet out on the flats, and fortunately, Ben had the foresight to bring along his castnet. This school was HUGE and THICK with fat roe-mullet. After 10 minutes of that, we had run out of room in the cooler and decided to head in.
Needless to say, I ate pretty well last night. Fried mullet fillets and backbones, gizzards, deep-fried white roe, bacon wrapped yellow roe and some smoked mullet dip
Next morning my buddy Ben calls and says he wants to go fishing but his motor is out of commission, so I felt obligated to take him
We get there at high tide and fish the outgoing. First 20 minutes, no fish. 30 minutes later, we had our limit, with 2 over 20 and were getting bored with throwing trout back, so we decided to head up a creek and see what other species we might find. Ben caught a flounder, but that was it for the creek. On the way out of the creek, we saw a large school of mullet out on the flats, and fortunately, Ben had the foresight to bring along his castnet. This school was HUGE and THICK with fat roe-mullet. After 10 minutes of that, we had run out of room in the cooler and decided to head in.
Needless to say, I ate pretty well last night. Fried mullet fillets and backbones, gizzards, deep-fried white roe, bacon wrapped yellow roe and some smoked mullet dip
