Fishing

not catching, haha.
But I thought I'd show you a few pictures of where we fish mostly. It's mostly fresh water, but a little brackish, too.
It's a pretty little place on the Marine base that is just a few miles from our house.

There were a lot of crows out today. We usually see herons, ospreys or cormorants.

I couldn't get a better picture of the white flowers. But they remind me of hibiscus or hollyhocks. I don't think they're morning glories because they bloom all day. Lots of trumpeter vines, and the little yellow flowers are scattered all over the hillside.

We don't fish out at the end of the pier, because it's really shallow out there. Sandbars and lots of weeds. The nice thing about it, though, is it keeps boats and Sea Doos and such out. We do have competition for the fish though.
Gar, which I didn't see any of today and turtles.

There is this one big Alligator turtle that we know is in the creek, but we didn't see that today, either. It's got moss growing on it's shell. When we first started fishing here about 12 years ago, I thought this was an alligator. It was just barely visible in the water at that time.

Ever since then, we've called it the alligator tree. We've lost a lot of bobbers and fish to that tree. ;)
Today, we had another little surprise though.

A real alligator. Young, but an alligator none-the-less.

Hubby figures he's probably about 4 feet long. We were surprised to see him there.
Even though all we had were small fish today. Bluegill, pumpkinseed and a little croaker, we're going out again after dinner, when it's cooled off a bit, to see if those catfish or some bigger pan fish might be biting. :)
Hope you're all having a good Monday!