On the Pier - Felt the Jolt

Shaken - Maybe

As I get the jolt from my coffee (awoke earlier and couldn't sleep), I checked online to see if there had been any earthquakes yesterday.  The reason is because as I had been leaning hard over the railing on the fishing pier (watching the big fish cruise through the bait fish below/under the pier), my hands and arms were on the railing and at one point in the early afternoon, I felt this noticeable "jolt" and immediately thought of an earthquake -- no fishermen were close by to see if they had felt anything and none seemed to react or look around.  The waves weren't monster waves either that could have shaken the pier or jolted it as I felt.

Monster Cobia - 68 pounds

This morning I checked and it (earthquake in Mexico) apparently had been recorded in Idaho's Discovery Center so, maybe I did feel it -- my Walmart receipt indicates that I checked out of there around 2:32 yesterday afternoon and that would have put me on the pier at about the right time (before I went shopping).  By the way, the Walmart had these bacon wrapped, chopped beef steaks for less than $10 for a box of 10 -- had one last night cooked on the grille (pretty tasty for $1 - actually cooked 3).  They also had a kayak for under $200 but, it didn't have a place for a cooler or pole pockets for fishing rods -- and it was $50 less than the Walmart in Clearwater (has me thinking).

Monster Gaff

This is a picture of the gaff (next to the guys feet) used to get the monster fish up the side of the pier yesterday afternoon.

By the way, I did get a new fishing rod and reel for light spin casting and already have it rigged for those Spanish Mackerel -- the big rod is rigged for those Cobia so, maybe I will get a spot on that pier today (and hope somebody has one of those gaffs ready - if only).  Might be the best work out that I've had in awhile -- might kill me too (that young guy looked worn out and I'm pretty sure he was in way better shape than me).  You should have seen him drag that big fish all the way back to the end of the pier -- he stopped a couple times and switched hands about a half dozen times.

One guy (the one who first spotted the Cobia), emptied his tubular aluminam fishing cart and offered it to the lucky fisherman to use for getting the fish back to the parking lot -- nice gesture and I think the younger guy may have wished somewhere along the way that he had taken the offer.



Fish On!  But getting tired.