Fishing in Homosassa with no luck

We slept well and woke before 5 am. We did our morning language lessons and had morning beverages. Once Mark and Cindy were up, had cold cereal for breakfast then took the dogs on a walk on Standish Drive.

Fishing near Homosassa

Mark has been hoping to learn some of the advanced capabilities of his Garmin chart plotter. We used the Garmin Active Captain app to connect Marks iPhone to his Garmin boat plotter and experimented with syncing waypoints, tracks and routes to his phone and computer. Mark was especially interested in bringing tracks to his computer for viewing on Google Earth.

Kenny with a small lizardfish

Kenny came over at 9 am to fish. We loaded the boat with our gear, including the reels that we cleaned last night. They seemed to work very smoothly after cleaning and lubricating. We fished the shallow water around Homosassa and up Battle Creek for 7 hours. In that time, we caught and released a lot of undersized redfish and a few ladyfish. Kenny even caught a small lizard fish that was hardly bigger than his lure. We caught no snook and no fish of edible size. We had to get out of the boat on several occasions to push the boat through shallow water. We also had to get out a few times to retrieve snagged lures but not in deep mud like yesterday. While fishing we saw three adult porpoises and two young.

We were out until nearly 5 pm without catching much to speak of. After we returned to the dock, we cleaned saltwater off gear and cleaned boat deck and seats. We ate a leftover dinner of shrimp from The Freezer, snook from Tuesday’s fish fry and salads. It was all good.

After dinner Mark and I went to Home Depot to get a disconnect box for the HVAC. We hoped to replace the exterior electrical box on Friday. Back at the house we tried searching online to figure out why the lower icemaker wasn’t working on the refrigerator.

We watched episodes 1 and 2 of season two of Clarkson’s Farm on Prime TV.