The bad news is, my 4 year old son cut his finger a little on an oyster shell at the launch. I didn’t think to warn him, he’d never encountered a place that had so many oyster shells. But, the folks at Bowens were kind enough to get us to their first aid kit and band him up. Minor cut.
So we started the day off with blood and tears. More tears than anything. Also made it BLATANTLY clear to me that I have neglected having a first aid kit on my fishing vehicle. That will NOT be a mistake I will make next trip.
Then, I dropped my GPS (Tom Tom) in the water. Forgot it was in my shirt pocket. Wanted to check, for novelty, how fast I could row my canoe with the oars and oarlocks. It landed in 3" of water and was in the water for maybe 0.99 seconds, but that’s enough to make a mess. Soaked it in some denatured alcohol when I got home (this works on most everything else, once the alcohol flushes out the water and then evaporates) but I think the seawater probably shorted it out and probably blew a few capacitors, meaning I now have no GPS.
Well anyhow, the day turned brighter way quick. We didn’t catch anything in the first 3 or 4 anchor spots, but when I figured out the trout’s swimming pattern, the bite was on. In all we ended up catching around 15 trout.
Brought home 8 of them. I threw back anything that was 1/2" over the minimum since I just didn’t need them, nor any drama in case I was checked by DNR and was suffering from ice shrinkage lol.
Also caught one 16" redfish, which shall make for a nice blackened red fish sandwich.
No pics at this point, I left my camera locked up in the car after deep-sixing the GPS, and was just too worn out to even bother with it when I got home.
All the fish were hitting trout tricks, dark DOA shrimp, and chartreuse swim baits (paddle tail shad types).
watch the oyster cut…those things are nasty and real good at getting infected quick…