fishingfromagunship

Took the day off from work on FRIDAY THE 13THas my wife just quit her job to go back to school and we haven't had much of a chance to spend any real time together considering the current state of the world LOL. We ponder taking out the center console to go hit some redfish holes but decide to take out the jon boat as the price of gas is $4.00/gal :banghead and the old 6hp Evinrude Fisherman sips it (whole trip took us less than a gallon LOL). We stop at the new bait store on 399 (also an auto repair shop, if you're wondering, but they have a good selection of everything from crickets and shiners to bull minnows and shrimp) and get around 5 dozen considering our usual rate of consumption with the shrimp as of late (the pins have been thick). We putt on over to our spot and drop anchor as waves lick over the bow of our little 12 footer. My wife being the trooper that she is just laughs it off and starts handing out the shrimp. We catch a few pinfish at first and just feel out around the spots seeing what we can scare up. I feel what feels like pins again (they had already gotten most of the legs off on the previous cast), so I start to bring it in. Two cranks of the reel and over doubles my little 6' 6" Ugly Stick and my Quantum reel is screaming! I fight the fish for around 6 or 7 minutes and Lauren, like a seasoned professional, "shows me how netting is done!" 25" redfish right around 6 pounds. Onto the stringer it goes and PLOP goes the line. I catch a catfish and I want her to hook up so we switch spots in the boat (probably the MOST adventure for the day right there LOL) and she throws within about 3 feet of my "fish cast" and ZIIIIIIIIIIING! goes her little yellow Heddon pole! She horses the fish out of the structure and fights him for about 5 minutes or so. She brings him up and it's her FIRST EVER KEEPER RED (24", about 5 pounds). So here we are sitting with a "limit of redfish" in the boat and about 5 dozen more shrimp to burn through. She throws again and has a blast catching a ladyfish for about 10 minutes and then follows it up with another pin (which she insisted in taking all of the fish off herself! :angel:bowdown). I cast again and the old Ugly Stick doubles over again, this time pulling more line and drag than the others. The fight is on and this one is a 26" beast of a fish. Now I have the dilemna of whether or not to cull the small fish (being as it's Lauren's first ever keeper!). Lauren, being all about eating the redfish (she LOVES 'em!) states in no certain terms that "the big ones go on the stringer!" So we cull her fish in favor of the big one, and we do a little fish revival training, as I'm a huge proponent of not culling fish unless I know that they can live and then putting the other one on the stringer or into the box. The "little one" swims away to be caught another day. We stay a little longer and we start to see the boomers on the horizon and opt to bring it on in and go home to clean our fish and have a nice night on the town. All in all, not a bad day on the water. Total tally: Lauren's FIRST REDFISH!, all reds caught in the slot (left them biting), fun times with the catfish, ladyfish, and pins, and another memory for the books! :usaflag:toast

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snakeawave

nice reds! thanks for pics:bowdown

Tuna Man

clap:clap $4.00/gal:banghead:banghead:banghead

Bay Pirate

Good Catch, didn't burn much gas, nice looking lady with you, sounds like a great day!

Iburned, $60 in gas and All I caught was one spec and was skunked on reds!

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tailfisher

Good job,atleast you were out on the water and enjoying quality time together and caught a few keepers,you never know after you eat you might get lucky again.

Danno

Thanks for the post and pics.

wirenut

clap:clap Good eats right there.