NSP 1-7-2011

[riverviewsteve]

I'm going to try hard and get out friday
to the NSP. Sure hope so anyway.
It looks like it will be a great day.
If all goes well I should be there around
6am or there abouts. If I'm there I will
be driving a white 4door F150 with a Navy
license plate. Will try to remember to put my
pierrat logo in the window and I'll be wearing
my Navy ball cap. If I can't make it I'll try to post
it so you won't be looking for nothing if your
there. Keep on fishing and full coolers.
riverviewsteve USN, RETIRED

[BigDawg71]

good luck Steve

[SkyJay]

Yeah good luck there brotha Steve should be a real nice day. Hope ya get that elusive Gag! Tell Capt. Mike howdy for me.

[riverviewsteve]

It looks like a go. Everything is in my truck except
my coffee cup. Come on 4am. That's when I'm getting
up. Good Night
Riverviewsteve USN, RETIRED

[SkyJay]

Wish I could join ya! (lucky dog lol )

[riverviewsteve]

Well come 4am I grabbed my coffee cup and headed
for the pier just as planned. It was a beautiful day
out there. Most of it with no wind. The report I saw
said 10 to 12 knot winds but they didn't come around
till around noon then it started to build a little. Now
for the fishing. One very small silver trout and a few
pins. Very few. All went back. Got to rap with Scooter
awhile when he was catching his bait. He said he
needed 150 for his order I think he said. 4 traps in
the water about 20 minutes and he must have at
least a hundred in each. Must have been brothers
and sisters all the same size. About 1 1/2". Other
than that had a great time at skyway. Wasn't to
crowded either. Had my choice of parking spaces.
SkyJay I gave Big Mike your message. I didn't see
hardly anything caught and what I did see was all
pinfish. Not one grouper. The baithouse guy did
catch one little small croaker I think. Even at that
I think it was probably bigger than my trout Ha!
Two older gentlemen next to me did catch one of
them diving ducks or whatever they are called.
One of them had a nice net so we got it up on
the pier and I told them watch his beak or you'll
be sorry. That was a fiesty sucker. Anyway I got
a rag and covered it's head and held it while they
untangled it and got the hook out. I know they
hurt when they bite. Unfortunately for me the
first time I tried to throw a rag on one I missed
but he didn't. Golly that hurt. Can't beleive it hurt
so bad and didn't even break the skin. Wow!
Well I could go on all day but since I'm a guy of
few words I'll cease for now. Righttttttttttttttttttttttt
riverviewsteve USN, RETIRED and loving it.

[BigDawg71]

ah well...sounds better than the day I had at work

[eaglesfanguy]

lol, gotta watch them cormorants. Pelicans and gulls are no big deal. But a cormorant, is a penguin. there stabbers. I'd have loved to watch that unfold

[riverviewsteve]

eaglesfanguy ain't that the truth. I had the
occasion to catch two of them things in one
week before they closed the other side of the
Skyway and as I remember the first one came
loose before we got it on the pier. One week
later I caught another one or maybe the same
one could have been I guess. Anyway when I
tried to throw a rag on his head I missed and
he didn't. Like you said it looked like he stabbed
me. Felt like it to. It didn't break the skin but I
am here to tell you that hurt like -----. It's hard
to beleive something that hurt that bad didn't
bring blood but it didn't. I had a sore finger for
awhile though. When those fellows next to me
last week caught that one I figured they probably
hadn't experienced them before. I was right. When
they saw how vicious that thing was they were glad
to have help. Funny thing is when you get the rag
over his head it quiets right down. When your ready
to let it go though you better keep your hands clear
that's for sure.
riverviewsteve USN, RETIRED and loving it.
Oh thanks for telling me what that thing is
called. Devil bird sounds better. Aggravating
things sometimes. Tight Lines buddy.