Water washed all the way into the bed of the truck. She got it stopped with the tailpipe two foot under water, thank goodness it didn't die out. I jumped out of the bed close to the passenger door in chest deep water, got into the cab and got it back on the hill. My boat was launched and headed down the canal, going fishing without us. Lucky someone already launched hauled me out to retrieve it.Back to the fishing report. Water temp in the canal was a chilly 65 degrees, and dark as strong coffee. Headed north to a "honey hole" in 2 foot of water. I was wet so the ride got kinda chilly. Water was even darker there. Second cast, a 19 inch trout. Caught three more keepers pretty fast, all about 16 inches. Then they turned off. Threw everything in the box at em until about 12:00. We then decided to try deeper water. At great effort we managed to catch enough small pin fish for live bait rigs under thunders. The first line went out in 6 foot of water, and before I could get the second out, my wife was reeling in a nice spanish. From then until we had to go at 3:00pm. (had to meet friends back at the camper) it was Katty-bar-the-door. When we pulled out water temp was 78 degrees and rough. We ended up with a limit of barley legal trout and one spanish. The highlite was when my wife hung a Cobia that would have gone 25 pounds. She did great for a while till he decided to knaw thru to 40lb leader and leave. Wife already had him cooked in her mind, so she was pretty let down. Hard catching fish, but a great day on the water (and in it).
Got back to the camper late and friends already had some fine thick steaks on the grill.Sunday, second day. My partner and me left the girls at camp to gossip and headed out about 10:00am. Water temp in the canal was 62 degrees and it looked like rain at anytime. Wind was calm, and stayed slick all day. Headed back to the same place in 6 foot of water that we finished up in the day before. Started catching shorts right away on live pin fish. Kept getting cut off by Blues. They were everywhere busting bait fish on the surface. Pulled out at 2:00 with 7 barley keeper trout and 3 Bluefish. Lost a couple large trout. Our problem was, we could not catch pinfish small enough. Ended a fine weekend back at the camper with good friends and an outstanding fish dinner.
Ain't life grand when your a fishing fanatic like us.
Never made one of them.
