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The big story this week is again wind. It's been blowing for the better part of two weeks, now. Looking at the beginning of the week, I had three trips to run. However, by the end of the week that was down to one trip.
My first trip on Monday was to be with a couple of gals from the east coast. The girl that booked the trip apparently copied my address down wrong, and sent her 1/2 of what was to be a $100 deposit to the wrong address. She again sent it via Fed Ex, and I received her $50 on Saturday. However, I didn't receive, and still haven't received the deposit from the other lady involved. On Sunday night, it was looking like it might be very windy on Monday. Because one of the ladies involved was in her 90's, I send an email letting them know we could reschedule the trip if they had another day they could go.
I didn't hear back from her either via phone or email, so I was up Monday morning, spent my hour and a half getting the boat ready and in the water, and then waited. They didn't show up. I waited until 9:30 before pulling the plug on them. By the time I had the Talon cleaned up and put away, I had done the better part of a day's work.
Late that afternoon I got an email from the younger lady saying she had emailed me, but it had come back to her. She sent a copy. The copy quickly showed she had sent the email to the wrong address. Well, folks! I'm a reasonable man. I was quite willing to reschedule the trip. But, her error cost me a day of income and nearly a day of work. My position is that she forfeits her deposit, and I want to see the other $50 that was promised to have been in the mail. I have yet to receive it, so obviously, it wasn't.
As you might expect, she is less than happy, and I am the bad guy in her mind. So, what do you readers think? I am perfectly willing to have a court of my customers tell me what THEY think.
Tuesday was a fantastic day. It was my first trip with a really great 26 year old young man from Chicago, named Wesley Davis. it was Wes's first ever guided fishing trip, and he had been wanting to fish with me for some time. I wanted Wes no only to have a great day, but wanted to give him a sample of the different fish and techniques that we use here. I brought a full rack of Shimano Stella, just to put some icing on his experience.
We loaded the Talon with bait in four throws at the Marker 34 bar, and were ready to begin his day. There was a boat on the flat where I had planned to fish first, and I didn't feel I could get to where I wanted to fish without disturbing the anglers there, who were on the pushpole, so we moved on to Plan B. At that stop we caught snook, gag grouper, and trout. A good start.
As things slowed there, we elected to move on to another snook hole. There we caught lots of small snook, a jack, and a ladyfish. A couple of the snook were descent size, but no keepers. We hit another spot without much action and then switched gears to redfish. We had a great mixed bag of fish to our credit, but we needed the red for a Slam, and I wanted Wes to experience the dogged pull of the bronze torpedo.
We got to our redfish spot not long before the top of the tide, and it wasn't long before we had the first fish on. Wes was thrilled with the pull, and ultimately, the size of the 9 pound red. Wes caught 3 or 4 more, plus a nice snook at 26 inches, and ended the day with a nice blacktip shark to the boat that was nearly 4 feet long. It had been a great day with more than two dozen snook, the reds, the shark, 3 gag grouper, a couple of big ladyfish, a jack, and a trout or two caught.
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Friday was a blowout with winds gusting well over 20 knots. What's new. I guess winter is just around the corner.
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