Adventure Location: Rockport,Texas
Adventure Date: 12-20-2021
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Another very busy day until after dark. Here are a few items from the day. Let us start with a wonderful good walk at Memorial Park in the chilly air. Fall is arriving and the vegetation let us have about thirty new pictures for our art files. The OFM made the whole walk with no trouble at all including carrying the 30 new pictures in the camera.
Leaving the park we headed for Walmart to pick us a couple of items we had missed when we made up yesterdays shopping list. Any way we got them this morning. Leaving Walmart we took the “back” route out of the parking lot and found a really good thing in progress.
The Tule Creek bridge is being repaired. It is part of the Tule Creek hike and bike trail that starts back at Memorial Park. The trail winds down toward the bay waters for a bit over a mile crossing Tule Creek near Walmart with a nice parking lot there. The Teams had forgotten about the trail but now we will get busy and do a picture taking walk on it.
In early afternoon we were passing the Rockport Harbor and the water looked right to catch a fish. So we stopped for about twenty minutes at the “rock pier” by the Harbor Office. The result was one 16” fat speckled trout. You can see the lure used to catch the fish. The fish were lethargic and sluggish with the biting. That was the only one we caught in that short time but we had several more just pick up the bait and hold on for a few seconds with out swallowing it far enough to hook the fish. The water was only about three feet deep where we were fishing so maybe the water was chilled.
Our new toys came in right on time this afternoon and the OFM is very excited. This is a complete set of Prismacolor colored pencils for us to use for fantastic paintings (Yeah right, sure thing). We spread them out on the Castle's steps to show them off for the whole world to see.
Tonight we need to make a swatch chart for the whole 150 different shades of the pencils. That will be a good bit of work. But it will be a good effort at trying to have tooooo much fun.
I can't wait to catch my first fish with my Storm Wild Eye Swim Shad 3" = 1/4 oz. !!!! And to see the Tule Creek Bridge trail through your camera lens.
ReplyDeleteIt's gonna be a beautiful week weather-wise. Enjoy!
Keep in mind that a 28 inch redfish will be less than ten pounds. Lighter line lets the lure work better. I use 8# mono on my reel. I like braid when it is new but all the rocks around here have it fuzzy by the end of a couple of months even with a 24 inch mono leader. Mono stays in better shape for the bank fishing around here. And that line info is guaranteed opinion.
DeleteSounds like you know your fishing OFM. Do you keep to eat or for sport and release? Glad you got your toys.
ReplyDeleteMostly sport and release since I fish in short segments while out doing other things. I do not keep things with me normally to be able to save fish for eating, but I have no problem doing it when the timing is right.
DeleteSO PRETTY those pencils. I love getting new pencils in my hands...the shot makes my fingers itch to get going on my art again. Happy Holidays Barney.
ReplyDeleteAll those pencils just waiting for the artist
ReplyDeleteto have too much fun. Good thing they come presharpened.
Well, well. Another legal fish not eaten. (Sigh,from a person far from the coast. I notice you never mention the shrimps you can get so easily...). And now you have a splendid set of Prismacolors. They are wonderful, and I suspect you will be enjoying them. I look forward to the results.
ReplyDeleteShrimps are $5 a pound and up. I do not have equipment to catch them.
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