Well, it's over

Last week went by fast, after months of planning and hopes of good fishing, we are back home in NC. With 3 un-fishable days of high wind and high surf, could not do much fishing in the surf. Finally on Thursday, a member in our group caught a nice red and several catfish.
Myself, I caught 3 small/medium whiting, after doing the math, rental, gas, license, tackle and food, the 3 fish cost me just over $2,000.00 each. That's life and fishing!

I must say aside from spending time with the Fam, the highlight of my trip was a visit to J&M Tackle. I could have spent hours and the gas money home in there.

Hope to return again someday, just at a cooler time of year, July is like a sauna.

If you ever can, visit in the spring; and the fall season can be incredible.

You can't count all of that crap, the only thing you can count is the license, terminal tackle & the bait. See it wasn't such a bad deal.

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Originally Posted by flyguy

You can't count all of that crap, the only thing you can count is the license, terminal tackle & the bait. See it wasn't such a bad deal.

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I don't know what school of math you are using, but I didn't plan on sleeping in my truck and purchased a couple of new Penn Battle II combos just for this trip along with new tackle box and so on... If it was purchased in prep for this trip it was counted.

I GIVE UP!!!! If you are never going to use those Battles or rods, I will take them.

That Mr. Witler is math that no fisherman ever wants to do. There has to be a "fun factor" applied to make the answers bearable!

i don't think anyone is arguing here but, i think the point is that you can have a good time without catching fish. no one can accurately predict when fish may or may not bite, or what the weather will be like for that matter. some of us (me from birmingham) have less miles to travel than others and of course that makes a difference. other than terminal tackle and bait, you still have all of the other gear in hand to use next time. i have rented a condo at turquoise place and also slept in my truck (on many, many occasions), and dragged my kayak to (only to have it sit in the truck) to fish the pier/surf/whatever body of water. every go of it, though, i've had a time!!! been doing it for about 30 years now. i hope your experience was otherwise enjoyable and that you will return when you can. it's worth a return visit!

Witler, if I can offer you advice.

If you have a "group" large enough, the most economical thing to do is rent a place for a month during September to October (even early November) when the rates go down and then split it up according to different schedules. A place on the Bay along Fort Morgan Road can be amazingly cheap and you have crabbing, night fishing for specks from your dock, while all the surf (beach access at Mobile and Veterans) and pier fishing are still going strong. Flounder are headed for the Gulf and catchable at the Fort Morgan beach

July is for beach people who want to party and be tourists, or parents of school age children on vacation. Weather is still glorious in the Fall - really better than summer, except for the cold fronts which are not bad, just variable, you just have to have a long enough trip to smooth over the "average weather" as cold fronts come through.

Of course, that depends on your scheduling ability.

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Originally Posted by j. gravy

i don't think anyone is arguing here but, i think the point is that you can have a good time without catching fish. no one can accurately predict when fish may or may not bite, or what the weather will be like for that matter. some of us (me from birmingham) have less miles to travel than others and of course that makes a difference. other than terminal tackle and bait, you still have all of the other gear in hand to use next time. i have rented a condo at turquoise place and also slept in my truck (on many, many occasions), and dragged my kayak to (only to have it sit in the truck) to fish the pier/surf/whatever body of water. every go of it, though, i've had a time!!! been doing it for about 30 years now. i hope your experience was otherwise enjoyable and that you will return when you can. it's worth a return visit!

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I totally agree, whether catching or fishing, it's all fun. Apparently Flyguy missed the humor in my stating the cost of each fish.

My month trips in the fall, I seem to get 2 good weeks of catching in that time frame......with a week some years I would get a cooler full of fish fillets, and other maybe a baggy full......and that was in the prime spring time