This is my post for #freewriters 2477 prompt the home front hosted by @mariannewest
I have been thinking about going on the boat with my husband when he goes fishing but today was a day that I was glad that I did not ask to go, it was a good day to hold down the home front. He came home in a rage, I was so happy I was not on the boat.
Yesterday he could not get bait and found trout, he had 9 from one island. Today he got 70 bait but could not fish for the porpoises, they are really bottlenose dolphins but we have always called them porpoises.
He anchored on the double island in Grant and started catching trout but there were several small ones. When he threw a small one back the porpoises would get it, so he said he stood up and threw one as far as he could in the opposite direction of them. They headed for it, then he saw one swimming back to his boat and could see the trout was right beside its dorsal fin. It was a smart trout, by doing that the porpoise could not get him, except there were two more porpoises coming and they each went on opposite sides of the one with the trout hiding by it and one of them nailed the trout my husband could see it swimming off with it in it's mouth. He tried to fish more in that spot but the porpoises were going wild and scared the fish off.
The double island has a shallow bar that connects them so my husband used his trolling motor to go across it. He anchored and caught a trout, he heard water splashing and looked back at the shallow bar and there were about 10 porpoises crossing it. They could not get their bodies under the water because of how shallow it was, they were taking their tails and slapping them on the water to cross it. Now they went to tearing up the water on that side of the bar so my husband left.
He was getting low on bait so he went to run his traps, he was putting the traps in his boat because they were not catching anything, he had all but three traps in the boat and only had 7 bait. The last three traps caught 30 bait, so he put the rest back in that area and left them to run in the morning. He had 26 pounds of trout but thinks he should have had at least 40 if the porpoises would have left him alone.
What did I do today? I pulled weeds and broke the weed eater. I told my husband I was going to stop using any tools, a few months ago I was using his saws-all and it broke, he says he will get another one if he can not fix it and that is not an excuse not to use a tool. I think it should be.
Photo is mine