Fishing the Sunrise and Sunset - Navarre, FL

I awoke early enough (o'dark thirty something) to get out to the causeway on the other side of the nearby bridge before the sun made its appearance in the slightly cloudy horizon.  I had nuked the last full cup of coffee from the previous morning (or the morning before that) and consumed it on my way over to the northeast corner of the causeway where the breeze from the east/northeast had the wave action nearly to the top of the seawall.  Thankfully, the waves didn't make it over the top of the seawall to wet my more than slightly unoptimistic self.  I fished until about 8:00 and didn't have a single bite on my "Fishbites" so, I headed back to the RV for some breakfast.

Glad I had decided to wear two shirts and a jacket for the early outing and since the forecast called for temps in the mid 60s for the afternoon and until 9:00 p.m., I figured I could go back to fish through the sunset -- after a mid afternoon burger and fries leftovers from an early evening of cooking in the convection oven.  First, I worked on a troublesome accordion blind on the window next to my dining table -- had a broken string because some dumb ass nstaller ran a screw right through the area where the string ran causing it to shred and break.  Special clips were meant to be used to mount the upper channel to the valance above but, only one clip was installed and never used so, I had to steal another unused clip from an adjacent smaller window.

Well, after finally getting the accordion blind installed correctly on the clips with some "jury-rigged" strings to operate the lower section of the blind and after consuming that burger and fries, I headed out again in the middle of the afternoon to a nearby fishing pier at a little park on the nearside of the bridge.  I had scouted this little park before and the somewhat short fishing pier but, decided to fish there because a large barge with a crane and tugboat had taken up a location on the east side of the bridge in the direction of the spot I fished in the morning -- figured that probably messed up the already bad fishing there (or killed any realistic chance of catching a fish).

I fished the southwest corner of the pier and threw my deepest line with the surf-casting rod toward an area I had seen on satellite imagery which looked deeper and might have some sea grass.  I threw my smaller rig with only one piece of "Fishbites" into the waters at either side of the other line and waited and waited for something to come along.  Eventually, a couple other younger guys came to fish off the end of the pier (at separate times) and they both left before sunset without getting any bites either.  It started out to seemingly be a good place to fish as I had discovered some scales of a good size fish on the deck of the pier -- maybe scales from a smaller Red Drum that someone had caught and cleaned before leaving the pier.

Only thing I caught was the sunset with my camera -- no Green Flash.  Not a single bite and I only saw one fish swimming around the pilings of the pier (maybe a small catfish) and a few small bait fish breaking the water's surface occasionally.