Marineland Area 4/11

Got off work early yesterday and had to chose between doing yard work I have been putting off for a few weeks or go fishing. So since I have been putting the yard work off for a while, what’s a few more days, so fishing I went.
Started with a visit from an unexpected friend hiding under my yak. Took a little while to encourage him to head back outside. And then decided yak was going to stay put as that was Mother Nature’s way of telling me to fish the banks.
Then walked down to the inter-coastal, my normal spot was taken by a couple visiting from out of town, so I walked down to another spot far enough away that I didn’t bother them. Plenty of shoreline, no reason to be on top of each other. First cast, jack on before weight even hit the bottom. Then hour later, sea bass (always think it’s weird to catch them in the ICW and growing up in NJ and having to go far offshore to get them, but they are there). Then another hour goes by and the bonnet head give some me some fun. Other couple saw me fighting it and came down to look as they have never seen a shark before. Then another hour and the whiting. Whiting caught on chunk of squid. Everything else on shrimp. Squid and shrimp it was frozen for the third time before use as it was all I had and was too lazy to go get more!
That was it, about 5 hours, 4 fish, 1 manatee came and said hello, mother and baby dolphin, bald eagle, osprey and all kinds of shorebirds stopping by too. It was a great day to be outside. Decided it was photo catch and release day as I already had leftovers ready for dinner.

 

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