Had 4 days off for my twins bday. Spent 3 days at The Great Wolf Lodge and used the last day to fish. Spent the day prior figuring out where to fish. Dropped off kids to daycare and school so doing a party boat was out of the question. Tempted to hit a pier to try for bait and maybe an exotic that are being sporadically caught. Then there was the jetty... could hit it with some ghost shrimp and pull on some hard fighting opaleye and perch. Or, try my luck in the surf and get some daytime action on the long rod.
I hit the surf at 11am armed with macks for the long rod and market shrimp on the light rod. Beautiful weather, overcast and cool enough to warrant keeping my shirt on, but warm enough for the ladies out there to still wear bikinis😉
The long rod went basically untouched except for the ever present critter bites.
Had plenty of action on the light rod though. Caught a few yfc and missed even more bites. I kept 2 for my lunch.
The croakers were solid 12-14"ers. Pretty fun on the light rod. Gave it 3hrs then headed home to catch up on honey dos before I had to pick up the kids.