Reds in the suds .......

[Ice Cream Man]

The last 2 days been back in the suds - with my buddy David C.

On Wed. afternoon get a call from David while in Tex's Tackle, asking me if I want to go for a boat ride & check out his new Garmin GPS/Sonar .
Rush home to change & grab a rod or two just in case .........
Cast netted some turbo Pogeys head to the spot -
Less then 5 minutes of anchoring up we both have caught & released 2 over slot Reds each -
then the bite stops ........
Back to the boat to fine turn the Garmin .......

On Thurs. afternoon get a call from David while at Home Depot asking me if I want to go for a boat ride - DeJa Vu - all over again .
Rush home to change & grab 3 rod this time, good thing because he forgot his big stick .
Cast netted some smaller Pogeys head to the spot & it's on again -
First cast 33" Red for me - I'm happy but the conditions are getting ugly .....
David continues to cast further then me with my rod & hooks up every time -
This is not good, so I load the Abu up throw into the wind & get the mother of all backlashes -
Game over for me, but not for David - all I could do was watch him catch Reds on almost every cast with my back up rod .

Back at the boat, I'm pulling up the anchor, he's gloating & saying stuff " like nice balanced rod..... you should get one ..... "
I could do nothing but smile, while plotting my revenge, with my head down I spot about a 40# Cobia swimming between us & the bank .........
Slip the anchor back over & tried to get him to take a boat ride with us, with everything he had -
Live Pogeys, cut Pogeys, free lined Pogeys, bottom rigged Pogeys & white bucktails - but sadly we never saw him again .

On the way back to the dock we see a partial floating 15' Sailboat with 2 boats & a group of people bailing her out .
We stop to help with the bailing, end up towing the Sailboat & her owner to a friends dock .
Thanks to all that had the good sense to aide a person in distress ............ ICM


Sorry - No picture from our super secret spot ........