I took my boy fishing with me today. We put in at Remleys Point right after high tide and ran up the Wando to Beresfords Creek. We anchored up in between the old floating dry dock and the bank first. I put live shrimp under corks and cast upstream and let them drift back along the grass and the structure. I got robbed a few times, but we didn’t catch anything. I pulled the anchor up, and we ran further up.
I worked a few docks with a cork or just free lining the shrimp. I couldn’t buy a bite.
I decided to try a creek that I saw some birds working. The tide was almost dead low. I slowly trolled up into the creek and caught three undersized trout in a row. Then I tried and tried to help my son catch one, but he just couldn’t stand still to save his life.
We decided it was getting late and went for a nice sunset boat ride on the way back to the landing. It was a great way to end the day.
The trout I caught were free lined on a 2/0 circle hook with no weight and no leader. Braid straight to the hook. When they hit it, they took off with it!
I think they were 12, 12, and 13".
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That is soooooo cool! A treasured day for sure, Your son…and you …are lucky to have each other and I hope you will spend many-a-day making memories and remembering them together!
Good to see you and HootOoded on the water! LOL! Enjoying a day with a boy that age on a slow fishing day is an art form all its own. Great pics and great job!
You should be brought up on charges for child abuse making that poor boy wear that “God-awful” hat. Seriously, great job dad. Way to build memories that will last a lifetime!
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
Ernest Hemingway
Seriously, great job dad. Way to build memories that will last a lifetime!