So, seeing how obsessed Matthew has been with fishing we decided to go out on the Atlantic and do some real fishing while in Hilton Head.
That’s the “True Grits”, the boat we went out on the right. Those two herons were just hanging out on the dock. Seeing those kayakers inspired Matthew, Kevin and I to go kayaking later in the trip.
No pictures from kayaking….afraid to get the phone wet. We paddled A LOT and it was fun, but tiring. I don’t think I heard the guide very much from having to paddle and paddle and paddle to keep up. Had fun in the double kayak with Matthew…..Kevin? he was off on his own single kayak and man, that boy was good. Might have been the best kayak’er out there other than the guide, and that might have been close. Could stop on a dime, turn whenever, and had absolutely no problem doing whatever he wanted to do in that thing….
This guy came up to the boat as we were heading out….literally 3-4 feet away, no zoom on this picture (as an aside, no zoom on any Iphone pictures posted here, zooming I’ve found really messes up the quality).
And so, we went out here….about 36’ feet of water where they’ve placed some tires and other stuff to create an artificial reef. The spot has a name but I completely forget the name right now….
This boy is sometimes a reluctant participant in his younger brother’s fishing obsession but I would say overall has done better than Matthew in pulling fish out of the water (I can recall a few times he would have the biggest fish of the day). He was the first to pull a sea bass out of the water, but, this picture is of maybe the fourth or fifth fish he pulled out, but, the first one he would hold on to…..really had to be bullied and cajoled into holding the fish
Matthew certainly had his share of success but his trip highlighted, we hope, to him that he needs to be patient….he kept reeling in his bait and recasting when the better approach was to leave it down there and wait…and wait…and wait….
This boy has no problem grabbing, unhooking, and even kissing, the sea bass before returning the fish to the sea…..
Even Mom got in on the act…….
and had her own sea bass to show off…..
This was probably Matthew’s biggest sea bass of the day
But the highlight of the day was the dog sharks that we caught towards the end of the trip…..this is the one Matthew reeled in (with a little help from the crew)
and the Bass Pro Shops poster board holding on to another dog shark…..
But the biggest catch of the day was the dog shark that this fisher-wonder-woman reeled in…..it was so long that Matthew couldn’t hold on to it…..
another dolphin came up to say ‘Hi’ as we motored back into port at the end of the day….
We had to reschedule this trip; the original plan was to go out at 9 am and we had to wait until later in the week and went out at 1 pm. The benefit of that was returning at sunset……
