Bull Shark?

The glass minnows have left and the pelicans are no longer pounding my snook hole, but the mullet are still there.....and so are the snook.  No, I did not get a bite today, but I got another good look at them.   After several casts in the dark, it got light enough to see mullet starting to flip on the surface so I traded my spinning rod for a cast net.  The way that those snook were crashing mullet yesterday, I am not beyond trading anything that I'm using for something else that may work better, bring on the live bait.....no morals.

So there I am, waste deep, cast net lobbed over my shoulder and in my mouth, still not much light, stalking up on these mullets when all of the sudden they start greyhounding in all directions, most of them right at me.  Pushing from behind was a really, really large bow wave shoving right at me.   I was waiting for a dorsal fin to pop out of that wave and was bracing fro impact.  About 7 feet away the wave turned into a huge flush and swirls of whitewater....I threw the net.   

If I had caught that snook in the cast net, I'm sure that I would've let her go, she had to have weighed over 20 pounds.  That just wouldn't be right, but I'd been happy to have caught her.  

 I did in fact catch 2 mullets that a 20 pounder would need a few seconds to get down.   I nearly drowned one of the mullets.  It had  wisely swam most of the line off my spinning reel.....in the wrong direction.  Just as my tail-hooked mullet gets to the backing, that big snook returned and was again showering mullets a short cast away from me.....

Yes, I'm going back tomorrow.......

oh, the sailfish, yup, we're still getting them, another double digit day yesterday, looking like well over 500 sails for the month of January......