37. Laziest
fisherman
Setting: small fishing pier at the
mouth of Pensacola Bay.
Cast: ML, Shaving 1, Shaving 1 mother
and some really fast/funny locals (or it was a routine they had developed over
time as what happened had probably all happened before).
Time & objective: Late evening so
light was failing; standard rules in play: anything is better than nothing, big
is better than small, edible is better than inedible.
I was bouncing a shrimp around the
bottom when there was a ~hit with material resistance on the way up but not
much fight. As I lifted it out of the water it looked about 3 ft long and white
and, remember failing light, I thought I was looking at the bottom of a scary
big blue crab. As I lifted it higher I could see the ‘catch’ was a Spanish
mackerel that someone had caught, filleted and tossed the remains back in the
water.
This was a foreseeable scenario as I
was fishing next to the cleaning station. But as I pulled the cleaned skeleton
over the rail and into the pier deck light one guy yells…”Don’t reel ‘em in so
fast”. And another quickly follows with ….”Laziest fisherman I ever saw; only
catches fish that are already cleaned”.
ML
12 Jun, 2018
