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05-02-2014, 09:05 PM
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Rutherford and Little Florida trip
We first hit Rutherford. Had about a 20 minute layover in Lake Charles waiting for JT's Seafood to open so we could by some crab. That slowed us down a bit. The gentleman working there that sold us the crab and shrimp was a helluva nice guy. Beautiful blue crabs I almost hated to put on a hook. Good sized shrimp too. Kudos to JT's. Winds were slight and out of the North-Northwest. Both beaches were calm with almost no wave action and the prettiest I have ever seen em. Well I have had never seen Rutherford before but it was cleaner than the others on Holly Beach side. Water was almost green and not coffee, tea or chocolate milk as it is when I am usually at Holly. Rutherford Beach was a bust. Didn't catch anything. I may have had one bump on my gulp swim mullet but that was it. Nothing wanted a bone She Dog. Nothing was hitting the crab (alive or cracked) or the frozen shrimp. We fished the shrimp on bottom and under bobbers. Nothing. Not even catfish. We took the ferry and headed to Little Florida. There is a small pond on that beach that produced flounder and reds last time we were there, one flounder was around 18". This time, nothing. A few fingerlings flopped around my swim mullet but never took it. When we got to the pond two guys farther up the beach had just landed a stingray. It was probably 2 foot across. He said it was his second one of the day. He said he had one really good red "long as his arm" break off right before he landed it and something else broke off before he could see what it us. Those guys were using cut hardhead. Before we got our hooks wet, a fella we passed on the way in hooked into something that took about 15 minutes to land. It turned out to be a 4+ foot black tip. We took some photos and released it. He said he had been there 4 hours and that was all he caught. Caught it on a mullet. As for us, it was a repeat of Rutherford. We couldn't even hook a catfish. We packed up and headed home empty handed. Ho Hum. Mike 
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#4
05-02-2014, 09:26 PM
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Oh yeah. The weather was great. Was actually a little cold to be wading this morning. But warmed up nice around noon.
Enjoyed going no doubt. The past few weeks at work were brutal so just going was nice. I was looking forward to sipping some lemonade, smoking a cigar sitting under my umbrella listening to the sounds. I forgot the cigar and lemonade then broke my umbrella. Grrrr. I am used to not catching anything but no one catching anything is what surprised me. Last time in conditions like today we didn't catch much until around 5 PM or later and then the redfish exploded. We were long gone by then however. Over two hour drive home then clean up and stow everything. That's a hassle. Man I need to build another storage shed.
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#6
05-02-2014, 09:47 PM
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Hey roger that!
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#9
05-03-2014, 08:27 AM
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yak em to stack em
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#10
05-03-2014, 09:14 AM
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My younger brother has a kayak but we didn't take it this time. Just took a light load. But it was on my mind most of the time "Man if we just had your kayak"
Forgot to mention, for those who care. Took a look at the beach restoration project east of Holly as I drove by. It looks good - lots of sand. No driving on it though, not from the road at least. They got the fences up like those east of Holly but there are breaks where you can walk through to the beach. Only two or three places to park by the road from what I saw. You may can drive on it from Holly side but not sure, we didn't stop at Holly.
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