One Week Down -- 14 to go in Texas

Well, no end to the world thank goodness so, now we can go forward with the Holidays and New Years Eve.  Today I headed out to the beach early and got some more practice at sucking those shrimp out of the sand -- way better results this time so, I had plenty of shrimp for use today.

I then headed to the jetty to the south but, found half a dozen other anglers clamoring around on the rocks of the jetty and the water still had the murky look and more seaweed too.  I lasted through one shrimp and decided to save the rest for the seawall in the town with some hope of catching one or more Mangrove Snappers for the twins and me.



Sunday night's Sunset

As a few large ships passed through the channel, I tried casting deep towards the channel and hoped the fresh, live bait would work its wonder but, I only managed to catch one Whiting that I released.  Meanwhile, another elderly angler came along and took up a spot just to my right with his 15 foot pole and he just dropped his offerings straight down just beyond the visible rocks and boulders -- and began to pull one after another of these nice Sheepshead from the murky waters.  After trying a few more casts into the channel and losing my rig, I decided to try this other angler's technique and began to catch a few other types of fish including a couple Grunts (gave a small one to a really charming Pelican that came to beg), a couple small Groupers and a small Sheepshead.



I also hooked a sea turtle just under one of its front legs and had to scramble down onto the boulders to get it out of the water and then safely removed the hook from it when I got it on the seawall.  A little later, I finally caught a nice 18 inch Sheepshead which I kept for dinner tomorrow night.  Its mouth full of teeth were really tough to get the hook out of and I had to replace the hook after bending it two different ways -- hate to think what it would do if it got its teeth into my fingers.

It took awhile to get the pictures into the blog -- guess everyone here at the RV park were probably logged on (if not watching the Sunday night game between Seattle and San Francisco).  I got too tired to keep watching.