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Fishing Under The Grafitti Bridge!
I love fishing on the beach! Whether I catch anything or not, I enjoy myself. Today was one of those days when we weren't catching fish. Normally by noon I would have had an ice chest with several good eating fish slumbering inside, but except for a few catfish, which we threw back, there wasn't a keeper to be had. My son and I had been fishing since early morning at Navarre Beach, just down the road from Ocean Breeze, Florida. Not having any real luck, around noon we decided to pack up our stuff and go home.
My son Michael proudly served in the U.S. Navy, based at Pensacola Air Station Hospital for several years. This gave me the opportunity to visit him on many warm and sunny weekends that we spent on the beach fishing. I wouldn't normally have had an excuse to go to that part of Florida, but it's a father's duty to visit his son when he's in military service as often as you can. Pensacola is on the Gulf Coast and if you're that close to a beach and do not fish; you have committed an unforgivable sin. It says so in the Bible somewhere I'm sure! I try my best not to sin!
As fishermen will, we just had to try it somewhere else before we called it a day. As we crossed back over the Three Mile Bridge going into Pensacola, we saw the little lagoon to our right. The road beside it led under a railroad track bridge and was covered with graffiti from top to bottom. The tide was coming in and the water was moving swiftly under the trestle. Scraps of paper, drinking cups and other litter were evidence that others fished here quite often.
We'd seen the bridge many times on our way to other beaches, but this little cove never seemed very inviting. It reminded me of when I was a kid and rode my bicycle to a small bridge such as this to fish for sunfish for a couple of hours on sunny summer mornings. This was that kind of place. There were a couple of teenaged boys fishing on the other side, reminding me of how I once found adventure beneath an old bridge. Maybe things haven't changed that much after all.
There were still some sand fleas in the bottom of our bait bucket so we used a few of these for bait. I rigged up my spinning rod and reel with two 1/0 hooks, an egg sinker to keep the bait near the bottom and stuck one of the fleas we had in our bucket on my hook. I was using 8 pound test line.
The water was moving around some of the rocks that were near the pilings of the railroad trestle. I threw my bait about twenty yards to where the water was ebbing around the rocks and pilings. I had barely set the bail on my reel when something almost jerked the rod out of my hands. Immediately my reel began screaming as the drag was set and the fish pulled line off my reel.
I had no idea what I had on the end of my line! It could have been a redfish, flounder, trout and even a shark, even though sharks rarely come up into a slough such as this one. All I knew at that moment is that I had to get the fish away from the rocks and pilings! I gradually won the fight and when I pulled the fish to shore, I saw that it was a Sheepshead.
It had wide vertical stripes on its body was shaped somewhat like a fresh water bream. This could be the reason Sheepshead are called the Bream of the sea. The record is 20 pounds. This one was about 3 pounds.
My son Michael had a fish on his line by the time I put mine on the stringer. His was a little larger than mine and fought just as fiercely. The boys on the other side of the bridge came over to find out what we were using as bait. We gave them a few of our sand fleas which are little crabs and soon they had each caught a fish.
Fishing anywhere is fun, but actually catching a fish makes the trip memorable.
Bob Alexander is well experienced in outdoor cooking, fishing and leisure living. Bob is also the author and owner of this article. Visit his sites at:
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Fishing Under The Grafitti Bridge!
I love fishing on the beach! Whether I catch anything or not, I enjoy myself. Today was one of those days when we weren't catching fish. Normally by noon I would have had an ice chest with several good eating fish slumbering inside, but except for a few catfish, which we threw back, there wasn't a keeper to be had. My son and I had been fishing since early morning at Navarre Beach, just down the road from Ocean Breeze, Florida. Not having any real luck, around noon we decided to pack up our stuff and go home.
My son Michael proudly served in the U.S. Navy, based at Pensacola Air Station Hospital for several years. This gave me the opportunity to visit him on many warm and sunny weekends that we spent on the beach fishing. I wouldn't normally have had an excuse to go to that part of Florida, but it's a father's duty to visit his son when he's in military service as often as you can. Pensacola is on the Gulf Coast and if you're that close to a beach and do not fish; you have committed an unforgivable sin. It says so in the Bible somewhere I'm sure! I try my best not to sin!
As fishermen will, we just had to try it somewhere else before we called it a day. As we crossed back over the Three Mile Bridge going into Pensacola, we saw the little lagoon to our right. The road beside it led under a railroad track bridge and was covered with graffiti from top to bottom. The tide was coming in and the water was moving swiftly under the trestle. Scraps of paper, drinking cups and other litter were evidence that others fished here quite often.
We'd seen the bridge many times on our way to other beaches, but this little cove never seemed very inviting. It reminded me of when I was a kid and rode my bicycle to a small bridge such as this to fish for sunfish for a couple of hours on sunny summer mornings. This was that kind of place. There were a couple of teenaged boys fishing on the other side, reminding me of how I once found adventure beneath an old bridge. Maybe things haven't changed that much after all.
There were still some sand fleas in the bottom of our bait bucket so we used a few of these for bait. I rigged up my spinning rod and reel with two 1/0 hooks, an egg sinker to keep the bait near the bottom and stuck one of the fleas we had in our bucket on my hook. I was using 8 pound test line.
The water was moving around some of the rocks that were near the pilings of the railroad trestle. I threw my bait about twenty yards to where the water was ebbing around the rocks and pilings. I had barely set the bail on my reel when something almost jerked the rod out of my hands. Immediately my reel began screaming as the drag was set and the fish pulled line off my reel.
I had no idea what I had on the end of my line! It could have been a redfish, flounder, trout and even a shark, even though sharks rarely come up into a slough such as this one. All I knew at that moment is that I had to get the fish away from the rocks and pilings! I gradually won the fight and when I pulled the fish to shore, I saw that it was a Sheepshead.
It had wide vertical stripes on its body was shaped somewhat like a fresh water bream. This could be the reason Sheepshead are called the Bream of the sea. The record is 20 pounds. This one was about 3 pounds.
My son Michael had a fish on his line by the time I put mine on the stringer. His was a little larger than mine and fought just as fiercely. The boys on the other side of the bridge came over to find out what we were using as bait. We gave them a few of our sand fleas which are little crabs and soon they had each caught a fish.
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Bob Alexander is well experienced in outdoor cooking, fishing and leisure living. Bob is also the author and owner of this article. Visit his sites at:
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LaFontaine uses his quirky wit and iconoclastic vision to peel back the mysteries of this fishery, including distribution of fish, primary food sources, and feeding patterns. Other chapters cover seasons, weather, fly patterns, and even how to use pack animals to reach your high-altitude destinations. Gary distills this research into a captivating amalgam of hard information and entertaining anecdote.
FLY FISHING THE MOUNTAIN LAKES will make you think and make you laugh. And you might catch a few more trout on your next mountain lake expedition.
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From the first chapter--in which Dave Ames recalls bluffing his way into a job as a fishing guide to the rich and famous (after barely managing to suppress the overwhelming urge to go postal at the federal agency where he suffered his first, and only, “real” job in a cubicle farm)--we’re hooked. We gladly follow Ames as he describes the rite of tasting clouds of mating midges to better match the hatch, tells the story of a fabled Blackfoot fishing guide, and shares his further adventures as a guy with no job, no office, and no stress. A Good Life Wasted spins a fascinating, compelling web--a web that entices the deskbound salary slave to make a break for it, and head west to big sky and fast, cold water, ASAP.
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