The Chart Room · 0430 – 2115
A Long Day on the Water
Cast net, oyster beds, and trout holes, and the occasional flounder. Gold tops at 3:30.
The landing is empty except for one truck and a guy throwing a net for bait. Coffee in the cup holder, running lights on, idle out of the creek until the channel opens up.
Through the inlet at first light. Flat enough to run. Forty minutes later the water turns from green to that deep blue, and nobody says anything for a while.
Home after dark, tired, salt-crusted, already planning the next one.
