While taking a boat ride yesterday evening, Tricia asked if I was fishing tomorrow? I said that I had no plans…what do you want to do? “Nothing, but if you go fishing and catch a sheepshead we can have it for lunch along with sliced cucumbers.” It would have been good to know that before I sent all of those fish home with Stan. “Oh, don’t worry about it, if you don’t catch a sheepshead, we have other things to eat. We would have ice-cream with homemade caramel for dessert.”
What I heard was: “get your butt out of bed, catch us a sheepshead, and have it cleaned in time for lunch or you don’t get any ice-cream.”
So, I got out of bed this morning before the sunrise and went and caught her a sheepshead. Then I caught another just in case we were really hungry. Then, you just can’t leave without dropping again and there is sheepshead number three. Now, I am one fish from a limit so…
That last fish was a bit of a challenge. I pulled hooks on a couple then I held on to one. I had that 4th fish at the edge of the landing net when the hook pulled and I watched it swim away. Now, it was getting personal. I did manage to land a limit and was home for breakfast.
