This is my post for #freewriters Monday prompt why did he have to propose? hosted by @mariannewst
My last day of trout fishing was not a good one, I did not load the boat. Far from it. Last night I thought of a place where I caught trout in the past when the water was high. It is right on top of the sandbar in the Big Sleuth. I headed for it first thing this morning. As I got closer to it, I could see another boat sitting right on top of it. I went on and fished two docks on the east shore, I never got a bite.
The boat left the sandbar so I went back to it, I fished all over it and nothing bit. The Big Sleuth had the most bait in it that I have ever seen, the bait I am talking about is silver mullet, I wondered if the reason that I could not catch anything is that if a fish opened its mouth, a silver mullet would swim into it.
From here I went to Black Point and Melvas Island, both places had a lot of silver mullet, and I never got a bite. I went to the Big Flat and drifted all the way across it for nothing.
I went to the middle east bank islands and fished the two south islands for not a bite
. The north one is called Stratlees and on it, Not the jack in this photo but another one when I was not wearing the GoPro, a bull shark got after it, knocking holes in the water as wide as my boat, but it did not get the jack. I caught 28 pounds of 2 to 4-pound jacks and 5 pounds of under 2 pounds, I never caught a trout, it was a good day to quit.
If you zoom in, you can see a bull shark fin, he is a big one. You will see the ripple on the water, left of the tower.
Sitting here in the third rain squall, I had to wonder * why did he have to propose?* Then I remembered, he never did. We have been married for 36 years and he never asked me to marry him. The CPA told us that we needed to get married.
