Around mid morning on Sunday, I decided to throw net off dock for shrimp. If me or the family didn’t fish, I’d have lunch or dinner app. Started slow and then started hauling in small amounts of shrimp. On one throw, I got this surprise in the net:
Given the wind, we decided to just do some dock fishing with the shrimp and mullet caught. A slow start on the incoming tide but things heated up as the water got to the grass and turned gin clear over the oyster bed. They were hitting nearly every cast for about an hour. The family left for lunch, I stayed to finish feeding the reds the rest of the shrimp (via hook!). A few small ones, mostly slots. One horse in the bunch that made a few good runs and fought hard for a good 10 mins. As I was trying to lift him over the rail of the dock the leader popped and he was released without smiling for a photo. All were released, including the doormat.
That’s pretty awesome. Count yourself lucky to have a dock, and especially a fishy dock 
I hate to see all these awesome docks and rarely anyone using them, especially kids. Glad you are taking advantage of yours!
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I’ve caught everything off that dock, including stripers this time of year. Never a lot of anything at any one time. It hasn’t been that fishy the last several years so we’re usually fishing in the boat. It was a nice surprise to have that much action, hopefully they’ll stick around for a while - would save me a lot of money on gas!
Good stuff thanks for sharing
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that thing you get just moments after you needed it.
love that blue color of the redfish tail!
You know you live in fishing paradise when you can catch fish like that off a dock:smiley:
Jack Taylor
I’ve netted flounder before at very low tide from the dock, cast right on top of them.