Last Monday we went to pull daddy’s remaining few crab pots out of the water. It started out being a sad day for me…with the sky gloomy and with a threat of rain , mirrowing the way I felt thinking about not going crabbing with daddy. The ride out was quiet…but EVERYTIME I looked back…there was daddy grinning back at me. We got out to the waterway where we would usually turn and he said…“you know what…lets go catch a fish…those pots can wait …they aren’t going anywhere”. 
. So off we went. Now that daddy is a “minnow man” also…he had already gotten a bucket full of fat minnows for us. I threw the cast net a couple times and caught nothing but mullet…so we went with what we had. We hung out in the waterway For a while watching as rainstorms slid by along the beaches by the ocean…and I managed to catch a couple little shark and a blue fish…and daddy a blue fish…the marsh twice and the Bimini top once…as well as hooking and somehow slinging his other rod over board…but with some quick reeling was able to get it back to the boat[:0]
… How it cleared the Bimini to start with we can’t figure out ! “See what happens when you don’t get to fish much he said”. . We were finally able to run through five fathom towards the bay and lighthouse. We passed a old marker with a sun bleached and weathered board nailed to it and when I looked at him he said…as if reading my thoughts…that’s old marker number one…and has been there “ever since I can remember” it marked the old waterway/route before they built the intercostal waterway…and this is where everyone traveled. I couldn’t believe it… As many times as I had seen that old marker…I never knew the significance of it! He went on to also tell me about a Chanel marker that had broke loose and drifted from Georgetown and ended up outside of the beach there. He refered to it as the “black marker”. Said only old timers would know of it. It was there for years…and he and others used it as a reference point w
As always fantastic story, great pics and the food looks great…
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Very good read and great pics. Your stories have just what it takes to warm the heart.
We’ve been blessed by you sharing your adventures with your dad. But I have a feeling you guys are no finished making new adventures and I’m looking forward to them.
“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dad
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Why is it flounder often go into crab traps? I have found quite a few in mine.
Thanks Penny for another wonderful telling of time with your Dad.!
One comment about your day?I’ve had similar results when I’m looking for bait. The only thing in the creeks seems to be finger mullet. I haven’t gotten any shrimp in the cast net at all, well maybe two or three. Where’s all the shrimp?
They too like the smell of bait/manhadden 
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As always I love looking at all the pics you take!
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