Arrived at the beach at 8am east of the barricades to find sandy water and the forcast 1 -2' waves lapping at the shore. Little bait to be found in the surf lead us to fill our bait coolers with George's best Winnie mullet and head out. I was the last to paddle out to the others anchored about 400 yds offshore. I can already see Jay A bowed up and paddle over to snap a quick photo of an early morning red for him....



Paddling back to the other two I am now anxious to drop anchor and get a line wet, but as I near them I hear the familiar sound of a clicker singing and soon am in pursuit of Lumberyak and his first BTB red. Nice job Eric.......



It took a bit of convincing to finally get him to realize that we do indeed flop these slimey guys into our laps to land them but once he had pretty much exausted all other options he came around and man handled the red like a pro. Finally, after what seems like an eternity I paddle over, drop anchor and get lines out. Pogies are popping all around us and life is good. 5 hours and enough snot on my leaders from countless gafftops later I finally remove that skunk scent from me with this little blacktip:



If Mike had called me and said he wanted some more of these snot balls to fillet I could have had him busy for weeks slicing the darn gaffers up. Sadly the reds disappeared after those first two. We worked from a couple hundred yards to over a mile offshore and other than a couple small sharks and more slime, had nothing to show for the efforts.

Here's one last shot of a first timer learning to handle the surf and doing a good job of it at that.....

Maybe it was snot the best of days, Jeff, but it looks like a lot of fun to me! Thanks for the photos.

FM

From looking at your photos, the water further out looked better than the brown water near the beach. Was there a color line change?

NW, there was, but it was very gradual and poorly defined. It seemed to be getting more visible as we
left that evening.