Caught The Sunrise and a Sunset

Well, had to have the Jeep in the shop yesterday and didn't get it back until the early evening -- left me with a couple hours around sunset to fish off the pier here at the camp (until it got dark -- lights didn't work on the pier).  Only caught one 12 inch catfish and a small baitfish or two.

Sunrise over Santa Rosa Sound.

Today, I got up early to try the pier again here at the camp but, didn't catch a thing -- except the sunrise.  I did also see 3 or 4 Dolphin swimming just beyond where I had been casting.  They passed by just before sunrise and were headed west toward the bridge I fished near on Tuesday.

Since nothing good seemed to be happening fishing from the camp pier, I decided to give the fishing pier at Navarre Beach a try and headed there around 11:30.  I fished for a couple hours and didn't get a single strike on either of my poles.  Talked to a man who has lived here for 20 years just down from the campground I'm staying at and he mentioned that the Sea Trout and Redfish are usually in the sound and that he has caught many - from his kayak in the grassy areas (using lures for the Redfish and live shrimp for the trout).

Sunset over Navarre Beach

This man I talked to left after just about an hour of not seeing any action -- he didn't even bother casting either of his two rigs -- said he would be back in the morning.  I left shortly after him and had my mind set on coming back to try again from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. -- I had paid my $6 and since it was good only until 10:00 p.m., I thought I should get my money's worth (even if I didn't catch a thing).  Which I didn't, except for the sunset.  Luckily a young kid fishing on the opposite side of the pier in the evening with his grandfather, caught a couple Spanish Mackerel and gave them to me -- one was about 18 inches.  He also had a couple others on but, they broke his line.

There were a number of King Mackerel caught off the end of the pier and quite a few shark were hooked but, I only saw one get pulled up to the pier -- about 3 feet long and it was quickly filleted by a woman that the fisherman gave it to.  Funny how the signs on the pier say it is prohibited to clean fish and throw their guts and heads into the Gulf but, people are doing it anyway.  I cleaned the ones given to me when I got back to my RV -- after showing them to Tiger and Molly.

May have to ponder some tonight on where next to try fishing and hopefully "catching" -- exactly when too.