Fish In Town Again

 

Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Today's Date: 4-21-2022

Fishing was calling this morning and the very sore left foot was saying no to long walks. So we got busy and rode down to the harbor to see what we could see. The wind had the water whipped into a frazzle every where it could get to the water. No fishing in those spots. As we meandered around we passed the entrance to the beach park and stopped at the Crab statue.

Hmmm the maintenance building is blocking the wind. Here is where we went.

Where the water shoreline is closest to the maintenance building is where the OFM stood to do some fishing somewhat out of the hurricane winds. The lure kept getting a bump or two each cast. Must be some grass under the water out there was the thought. Then after one bump the line started moving sideways and something was jerking on the line. We got it to the surface still about ten feet from the shore and it was a small speckled trout. It shook loose. Oh wow actually a fish for a change. To shorten this part of the story. We had about a half hour of fish bumps and managed to land three 12 inch trout. The first fish we have caught in two forever's.

We had to leave and left them biting.

After a few other chores were completed we were thinking about fishing again and the wind. Hmmm the wooden beach park pier used to be fishable in windy weather. So the command decision was to go ahead and by the yearly pass for $40 to access the beach park for the rest of the year.

With the pass firmly attached to the windshield we headed into the beach park wooden pier to see if it was fishable. As it turned out the wind was at an angle that left most of the pier decently fishable. So there we went out to give it a try.

The surprise was that we got frequent bites from something that would grab the lure and powerfully swim away from the pier for 40-50 feet then drop the lure. This must have happened 20 times and we never got a hook into what ever it was. Finally we gave up and headed back to the Castle to rig up a bait rig to try at the wooden pier. Maybe tomorrow we will be reporting on more fishing action as a great way of trying to have tooooo much fun.