Valentine’s Day, At the Beach of Course!

 

Valentine’s Day arrived and of course the age old dilemma was here, what to do? Candy is out and restaurants rarely have a balanced diet so……Lets go fishing at the beach! I mean doesn’t every women want to don her waders, dress warmly and fish for pompano and whiting?

So Renita made a picnic lunch and we headed for the Padre Island National Seashore. It’s one of our favorite places to fish and beachcomb as there isn’t much pressure. There had also been an article in the newspaper saying that the pompano had been biting and we both love grilled pompano.

It’s a bit of a drive from here, about fifty miles, and it involves riding the ferry so an hour and a half later we reached one of our gps fishing spots. Setting up two poles Renita quickly had a bite and reeled in a whiting. Now whiting are a good white meat, fish so into the ice chest it went.

I added another and then had a good hit that turned out to be a pompano, yeah! For the next three hours we had bite after bite, and had to stop fishing so we could eat lunch. The wind increased and the tide started coming in so it was almost time to leave. We had a dozen whiting and three nice pompano so it looked like dinner would be fresh fish!

The drive home was a lot quicker,(Renita was behind the wheel), and now for the fish cleaning. Renita and our friends all helped. Some even threatened to snatch fish fillets off of the cleaning table. I had to yell at one of the brown pelicans who was almost touching me, and the gulls oh well they are gulls after all.

It didn’t take long and I was soon dipping the whiting fillets into beer batter. Nothing like fish and chips, along with Loretta’s Southwest salad to complete the meal. It was a perfect Valentine’s day, a picnic  on the beach, fishing and a seafood dinner! Clear skies