St. Marks 8/14/05 Murphy's Law: Reds!
Posted: August 15th, 2005, 12:46 pm
The day started out terrible. Everything went wrong! Trolling motor stopped working, trim & tilt wasn't working, live well pump stopped working, threw a knot in my braided line when casting a spoon, grabbed a rod rigged w/ a chug bug and the line had wrapped around the snap ring to the trebles on the lure, a boat beat me to my first spot (honey hole) while I was messing w/ stuff, and a boat motored in between me and the oyster bar that I was fishing in my second spot and spooked the reds that were there. All this happened before 9AM. I almost turned and went home for the day and gave up to Murphy's Law. I decided to try 3 more of my spots since it was still early and then call it quits.
Believe it or not, it turned out to be a great day. On the last spot before going home, I caught 11 reds (for a total of 13 on the day - 27" was the biggest) and the smallest cobia I had ever seen. One trout made it a grand slam although I don't know if it counts w/ a cobia that small. I had a big shark on 80lb leader and it cut me off. It was fun even though I lost it!
The worst day ever turned out to be one of the best!!!

Believe it or not, it turned out to be a great day. On the last spot before going home, I caught 11 reds (for a total of 13 on the day - 27" was the biggest) and the smallest cobia I had ever seen. One trout made it a grand slam although I don't know if it counts w/ a cobia that small. I had a big shark on 80lb leader and it cut me off. It was fun even though I lost it!
The worst day ever turned out to be one of the best!!!
