This is my post for #freewriters Tuesday and Wednesday prompt secret agent and poor manners hosted by @mariannewest
Yesterday was a bad day, so bad that when I got home, I showered and sat in my chair and promptly fell asleep. I had fished all of the places where I had caught jacks and they were no longer there. I gave up on the jacks and fished for trout but only caught two of them.
I was looking forward to having an easy day today because all I had to do was run the pigfish traps and the crab traps. Then I would have to get diesel in my truck and fill all of our gas cans and go pick up my meds. Easy day.
Boy was I wrong. I get to where my traps are supposed to be and they are all gone, I thought I might need to hire a secret agent but then I thought no one is going to steal all of my traps, they would only take a few of them.
We had a thunderstorm last night, so I wondered if the tide ran hard and moved them. Sure enough, I found one 500 yards from where I had them, I wandered around finding them. They were scattered all over the place.
Some of them were so covered in grass, I had a hard time getting them to the top.
Some of them were even in the middle of the oyster farmers line of oysters. In the picture, it is the little buoy between the oyster crates. It is poor manners to mess with someone else's equipment but I needed to get my traps back. I pulled up to the oyster crates and took my pole to hook the trap and pull it to me. I found all but one of my traps. I also told the oyster farmer what I did and asked if they would keep an eye out for my missing trap.
After picking up the traps, I knew that I could not put the back there because we are now getting thunderstorms and I am afraid this will happen again. So I took the 33 traps to Black Point Flatt and set them across it. I fished for 2 hours while they set. I figured that would be long enough to tell if there is bait there. I never caught a pigfish in them. Fishing, I caught 3 trout, so that paid for my fuel.
I have 140 bait in the holding pen, when I use them, trout season will be over.
All photos are mine
