Saturday evening I talked to my friend Mike and we planned to leave the beach around 6:30am. Well, I woke up at 6:00 and checked the surf and it looked a little too rough for a beach launch so we decide to scrub the mission. I then went back to bed and woke up at 8:00. The surf was a little smaller so I called mike and we decided to give it a shot. We got the boat all geared up and pushed off the beach around 9:00 crashing through one wave and putting about 20 gallons of water off the boat.
Once we got past the surf we began to bail the water out of the boat and get ready to do some fishing. We stopped in about 20ft of water to catch bait. After about 12 Croakers were in the bucket we started to head out to deeper water.
On the way out, about 2 miles from the beach we saw our first turtle of the day which had a small Cobia trailing it. Before we could get a bait to the Cobia, the turtle dove and we didn't see it again. We found plenty of other turtles, but none holding fish. There was one strange turtle that didn't spook when we got near it. Instead, it kept following us so I grabbed the camera and took a few pictures of him.
Once we got to our spot it didn't take long to hook up. Mike got the first good Red, then I got one shortly after. There was plenty of action out there. We ended up catching 2 nice Reds, a bunch of Black Drum, and a few big Florida GTs (aka Jacks). There was a mystery fish we lost that hit one of the Croakers a 100mph and just wouldn't stop.
It was a good day on the water and we had some nice fish for dinner.
