Inlet trip

It’s been a blur of south wind, broken gear, bait buckets and fish cleaning the last two weeks and I’ll try my best at remembering everything I’ve done.

I think it started two weeks ago really, really early in the morning, fishing around the inlet with Jonah for whatever we could get for his hungry freezer.  Jonah and I headed down there and fished around Honest Johns for the early portion of the morning then migrated to the inlet to catch the outgoing tide just before noon. We did relatively well for not having fished the inlet for a long time. When we were on the flats, we caught a bunch of 18 inch trout on top water lures. Jonah the great white warrior of the IRL was in rare form for this excursion and it was fun to get a bunch of fish for his freezer. He was telling me his method of choice for cleaning fish which consists of cutting the heads off and then just gutting them and wrapping them in foil and sticking them in the fridge. I was convinced I was going to look back after he caught his next fish and he was going to just be eating it like a freaking cave man. Anyways, after it started heating up we cast netted some bait and anchored up at the inlet and caught a mixed bag of species reds, snappers and the always present junkfish... Once we were out of bait and soaked in sweat there was no other option but to head to OutRiggers and meet up with Noah who is on a personal campaign to bring back the standup jetski. We had had some beverages, rehydrated and we were ready for the next adventure.