Robin's Reports

MOTHER'S DAY in the RIVER
by Robin





We thought we may have a nice day in the river, catching crabs for a low-country crab boil. Boy, were we wrong. Not a single crab!!

But, Jack saved the day with this very delicious spotted seatrout. Seatrout have to be between 15-20", but you can keep 1 over 20". I think this one was approx 17". Nice little fight, as it went towards those pilings.



The boys kept working their nets and pulling in these mini-conchs. When they first told me they were catching conch, I screamed, "Keep it!" because I desperately wanted to try my conch recipe again. Then, it was shown to me and Jack explained something about regulations. Oh well. A girl can think big, right?



We brought in 4 puffer fish (& released).



And we got to see wonderful displays of dolphin in this small cove. I just missed the jump here.



The mamas seem to enjoy raising their babies here.



The dolphin & pelican have a cool symbiotic relationship and follow each other around. The dolphins will drive the mullet to the surface to jump and the pelicans eat without much work.



I think that sometimes the dolphin don't get as much out of the relationship as the pelicans.



Then, we headed back through the locks towards our new marina 'home'.



Here's a little bit of free information for you if you go through the locks. Don't tie your boat up tight to the side railings. The water level changes!!! Let's say that God provides us challenges as learning opportunities. ha ha.

Anyhow, I always keep my camera handy for the locks because we always see something cool swimming through there with us. We had multiple manatees the first time. Nothing on the way back home. Oh!! except for one when we first were pulling up and I was working the back lines. One popped up 3 feet from my nose and scared the bejeebers out of me. It was like Jurassic Park of the toothless, slow & fat variety. Everybody got a good kick out of my scare. I'm glad nobody had a camera on me!

Happy Fishing! On Saturday, Jack starts his long vacation where we'll be fishing as often as our energy holds out. I CAN'T WAIT!!!