Veteran Fishing

 We launched out of Goffinsville today with a few cloudy skies and a rainstorm off in the distance, but we
didn't get wet a bit throughout the day. I had met Dennis Abercrombie and his 93yo father Jay early and as the sun came up we buzzed over to the mouth of Pumpkin Hill and began drifting live shrimp under float rigs on the last couple of hours of an incoming tide. The Ladyfish were out in force - we tangled with them for a while, then moved around the corner and here Dennis found a hot spot with some hungry Seatrout, and landed a few.  He also battled a hard fighting Jack Crevalle and a Bonnethead Shark to the net.

Our next stop was back around at Seymore's Pointe where we drifted floats around a point of grass. We had a few nibblers but no real takers. We then ran down to Twin Creeks and switched to jigs and here had a bit of action. Dennis had a strange bump, hooked it up, and landed a Flounder then both anglers had some strong bites, one break off, then Jay had a hookup and Big Fish On! this fish was ripping drag and heading west! But then it turned around, came back to us, dove under the boat, and laid deep. Jay worked it
patiently then Dennis tagged in and took over to slowly work the big fish to the boat and landed a nice 4'+ Bonnethead Shark, boy what a battle!

We fished some rocks with the float rigs at Seymore's Pointe to no avail, then moved down in between two docks and switched back to the jigs right as the tide was changing. We were r