Two days after a front with north winds and flat surf was a recipe we had been looking for. Launching at daylight, we made our way around the jetties in search of trout and reds. The water was calm, and the waves were breaking softly on the first sandbar. Our mission was to find birds and bait, or both.
The birds were sitting on the shoreline, so we put our attention on the bait flipping near them. Shrimp and mullet were the secret sauce this day. It seemed the out going eddies attracted the most activity as we worked our way down the beach. The lack of other boats on this weekday morning made us feel as though we were fishing a secluded coastline. I love the miles of uninhabited shoreline. The smell of the salty surf air filled our souls with the anticipation of an explosion on our topwater offerings. It wasn’t long before we made contact with a keeper trout which was spooked into submission. We kept grinding with the top waters, but the action slowed enough to make us present our breakfast platter a little deeper. A cork and an artificial shrimp seemed to be the ticket. Thrown right up on the beach and popping them into submission became our weapons of choice. Reds, drum and sharks seemed to dominate the shallow waters of the first gut. One spinner shark went airborne with a triple twist before breaking my thirty pound leader. The Russian judge gave it a ten and I had to agree!
We worked our way back toward our beginning point later that afternoon, and the surf went extremely calm in the afternoon as you will see in the video. As we got closer to the jetties, some movement on the beach caught my eye. I got my camera out and took a look through my zoom lens and was surprised to see two white tail deer feeding on the grass at the base of the dunes. They didn’t seem to mind us as they meandered down the grass line. The birds were starting to fly, and they seemed more interested in our topwater lures than the real bait. We managed to inadvertently hook a couple of overly eager gulls. We loaded up our gear as the sun started to drift slowly toward the horizon and made our way back to civilization. It was a beautiful sunset and an awesome day on the water. We had plenty of scenic opportunities to place in the log book of our memories. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
The varied beautiful beach scenes on this trip made me appreciate God’s great outdoors and all it has to offer. We even kept some fish for a fish fry for two families. I hope you can get outside and enjoy the cooler weather and catch some fish soon.
God bless you and thanks for reading my blog.
Enjoy the video!
Tim Lumpkin
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