Day 115, November 24th, 2009
I woke up in the morning thinking I'd like to try some fishing. So I borrowed the phone from "Millard" at the front desk and called the fisheries dept. Since we'll be in Florida several months I bought the licence for the year. You can buy a l icence for a day, a week or a year. Its reasonable at $47.00. Millard also fixed me up with some "Gulp" and "Jig Heads". "Even women and children never fail with these!!!"
After breakfast John and I walked over to The Moorings to see Pat and Diane and invite them to join us for chicken and dumplings at The Old Salt's Restaurant. A local lady just opened her restaurant - she's a great cook and everybody reckons the chicken and dumplings was in a class of its own. She makes a big pot in the morning and when its run out thats all till the next time. They were pleased they'd got their computer fixed and were working on their battery problem, but were happy to meet up at lunch time.
Back at C Quarters Millard showed me how to get my stinky "gulp" on the "jig head". (It actually looks like a little rubber shrimp stuck on this hook with an eye.) I was ready! So I stood on the dock, where it was reported everybody brought in one fish after another, and cast and cast. I started off with 4 jig heads and 4 gulp. By lunch time I only had 1 jig head and 1 gulp, and no fish. I'd had several bites but couldn't seem to set the hook. 3 times my hook had got snagged and the line broke. Millard reckoned it had caught on oysters at the bottom. I was feeling disappointed!
However, chicken and dumplings with peach cobbler for dessert made everything look a lot brighter. There were 8 of us round the table - Sharpie's Dream, Twice 's Nice and Periwinkle, as well as a nice couple from Colorado. We all enjoyed the special. A different way of doing chicken and dumplings - the dumplings were made from noodles, not dough, and there were hard boiled eggs in there too?!
On returning to the marina it was time to try again! I ended up giving up on the gulp and instead tried "bait shrimp". More success this time - a small mango snapper (under 10" so he had to get thrown back in) and then my piece de resistance - a beautiful speckled trout, about 2 lbs. He put up a good fight but I landed him and then yelled for help! One of the locals came to my rescue and stamped on the poor things head. I didn't know how to kill it! Anyway, then "James", another local, helped me fillet it and John and I had fish for supper!!
I woke up in the morning thinking I'd like to try some fishing. So I borrowed the phone from "Millard" at the front desk and called the fisheries dept. Since we'll be in Florida several months I bought the licence for the year. You can buy a l icence for a day, a week or a year. Its reasonable at $47.00. Millard also fixed me up with some "Gulp" and "Jig Heads". "Even women and children never fail with these!!!"
After breakfast John and I walked over to The Moorings to see Pat and Diane and invite them to join us for chicken and dumplings at The Old Salt's Restaurant. A local lady just opened her restaurant - she's a great cook and everybody reckons the chicken and dumplings was in a class of its own. She makes a big pot in the morning and when its run out thats all till the next time. They were pleased they'd got their computer fixed and were working on their battery problem, but were happy to meet up at lunch time.
Back at C Quarters Millard showed me how to get my stinky "gulp" on the "jig head". (It actually looks like a little rubber shrimp stuck on this hook with an eye.) I was ready! So I stood on the dock, where it was reported everybody brought in one fish after another, and cast and cast. I started off with 4 jig heads and 4 gulp. By lunch time I only had 1 jig head and 1 gulp, and no fish. I'd had several bites but couldn't seem to set the hook. 3 times my hook had got snagged and the line broke. Millard reckoned it had caught on oysters at the bottom. I was feeling disappointed!
However, chicken and dumplings with peach cobbler for dessert made everything look a lot brighter. There were 8 of us round the table - Sharpie's Dream, Twice 's Nice and Periwinkle, as well as a nice couple from Colorado. We all enjoyed the special. A different way of doing chicken and dumplings - the dumplings were made from noodles, not dough, and there were hard boiled eggs in there too?!
On returning to the marina it was time to try again! I ended up giving up on the gulp and instead tried "bait shrimp". More success this time - a small mango snapper (under 10" so he had to get thrown back in) and then my piece de resistance - a beautiful speckled trout, about 2 lbs. He put up a good fight but I landed him and then yelled for help! One of the locals came to my rescue and stamped on the poor things head. I didn't know how to kill it! Anyway, then "James", another local, helped me fillet it and John and I had fish for supper!!
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