I promise you I'm not trying to make you struggle but I did want you to see what my morning catch turned into my morning catch turned into lunch. Winter winter fish for lunch not dinner. All right keep watching. All right so here we are back at it another great morning. What is perfect the tide is falling and I'm going to see that I've got my rod set up. I have my sand fees with me and that's actually all I brought this morning. Typically I come out with sand fees and shrimp and fiddler crabs you know the whole shebang but this morning I am exclusively targeting the black drum because I've been on them since Saturday having some great success there so black drum consumption is way up in my household right about now and I can't say that I'm sad about that because they're really good good fight you know and also has been fun going out to the beach and just walking down the beach with my sanfully rake and meeting folks and talking to them about what I'm doing and what I'm catching and why I'm catching them and you know so it's been a little bit of an experiment a little bit of a journey you can see I've hooked up here I have a fish on you'll also notice probably picked up on it already that I have my bigger rods out and taller rods because I actually have lost a couple of fish over the past week because they just dig some of the bigger ones have run me down into the rocks at least I'll say one did and the other one of course saw my video where I caught the five where he ran me into my other line so and speaking of getting snagged even with my long rod here you can see this one actually got caught on a rock on the way in here so it's kind of stuck so emergency measures being taken I'm just going to actually putting my net underneath there and basically just yanking it loose and fortunate to able to get that fish before it actually got off so I would definitely say if you have longer rods when you're fishing for these fish because they are strong they do have the ability to dig on you and that's just want to help you of course having a net down here because the ones I've been catching are nice size but believe it or not they do get much bigger than that so having a net handy that's how you can get those fish up out of there with will probably save you a few tears if you get emotional we can lose a fish but like I said been good you see my cooler there styrofoam cooler that's the fish just give you a little visual of that and actually have a little 14 inch measuring line on my bucket so when you see this see my camera kind of move there just then that's me actually using my little measuring line 14 inch line that I put on my bucket because I'm serious about this thing you know as I said I have to have a 14 inch measurement on my bucket so I can just come up and put them up to decide of it and really quick to tell whether or to keep her on for the next best see it is and for those of you that have gone way back with me you know that my fish bag is how I keep my fish alive while I'm out there fishing a fish bag nothing more than a heavy duty laundry bag that I just repurposed so get your own net wall marto wherever you might pick that up I think they run about I know somewhere between seven and ten dollars I think is what I paid for but I've had it for a few years now and it's still doing good so not disappointing so here you can see I've got another bite so I am anticipating that's one thing that I don't do when I get a bite is just run to my rod and just yank it right away what I try to do is catch the fish with his hand so to speak in the cookie jar meaning I want to feel the fish actually pulling my line I want to see him pulling it and then get there and then yank it up and maybe he took a break or swam away and maybe he's chewing what it has in his mouth I wait on him like I'm doing now and actually set the hook when I actually feel the fish pulling my line you know that so I mean to eat your zone but I you know definitely feel like you might have a better opportunity to catch a fish if you actually wait to feel that actual pull so that's what I'm doing right here as you see me I'm pausing you can see I did feel the pull and as I felt the pull I set the hook and we have a fish so that's that's what's happening there you can see this has a very rocky area and you'll always notice that I have on my my rubber boots and I do that because well for two reasons because you know when you're out here a lot of times boats are coming through and waters washing up and the other reason is because these rocks have oysters on them and they are very sharp so I don't recommend flip flops or any other shoes that you might want to not destroy so that's why the rubber boots are always on even on the hottest days and I'm sure there's a few of you out there wondering why just Chris always have on long sleeves and both top end bottom well one reason is the sun you know I feel cooler personally you know being covered and you see me digging in my cooler there is actually another gentleman over to my left here this fishing he actually has shrimp and I want to say he came down from Fayetteville or up from Fayetteville if you will and so I'm sharing my sand fleas with him because when I went and collected my sand fleas the other day I actually had in mind when I was coming back I knew I had plenty for me but I actually had in mind that I can get enough to share and that's what I'm doing so I'm like to show a little hospitality you know to my fellow fisherman and so you know if you see me out and about and you know especially the next couple weeks and you see that I have some sand fleas and you don't have any you know I don't mind sharing with you I'll give you I'll give you a dozen or so long as I have enough to keep fishing we're good to go so you see another fish coming up out of there these fish are very nice I think on this particular day I don't think I caught any that word not big enough this was actually only about an hour outing so in an hour I got three very nice fish so of course I'm very happy about that and I'm another one going into the fish bag I'm just conversing with the guy that's out there and I really just talking to him because he actually saw this fish bite my line and I didn't actually see it and told me you're right then a little nod two times in a row I think I had my back turned or was probably giving him sand fleas or doing something like that and because he told me to you know that they had nodded because I didn't see it I went up and kind of stood behind it and learned the whole you know that fish was there waiting to do his thing and we set the hook and you'll always notice too a lot of time on washing my hands just getting that sand off so until next time be kind to the fish