SURF FISHING - Great way to spend a cool but sunny day.
January 2nd is a day I’ll always remember because it was the first time I drove the truck and towed the 5th wheel on public roads from Port Canaveral to Sebastian Inlet.
I was truly scared shitless to do it, almost chickened out but Dave “insisted” I give it a try and I’m glad he did. I didn’t kill us or anyone else and I didn’t demo the trailer...THANK GOD! Stopping wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be, no problems once I did it a few times. But at one of those first stops, I noticed that I really had to push far down on the brake. Same for every subsequent stop. Shouldn’t be like that so took the truck into a repair shop the next day and it turns out the rear brake line blew.
So I guess my first experience towing the trailer was pretty good despite the lack of brakes. The front brakes on the truck along with the trailer brakes were plenty to stop us but damm glad this happened in flat Florida vs. mountains. That wouldn’t have been good!
Now that I’ve gotten over my initial fear of towing the trailer on public roads, next time should be much easier! Still need lots of practice turning.
Our destination campground in Sebastian Inlet was Long Point county park. Only about an hour drive south of Port Canaveral. The campground is on an island on the Indian river side of highway A1A. But the ocean is only a 5 minute drive away....plenty of places to fish from the surf.
It was also only a 5 minute drive to Sebastian Inlet State Park which has a couple of fishing jetties as well. In fact this whole area is famous for it’s fishing. And that’s pretty much all we did while we were here. Caught a few good ones, you’ll see our catch in the pictures but what we caught most of was hardhead catfish. 18 one day and probably 20 on the other. I hear that they’re edible but man are they slimy and said to be a bitch to clean. Decided not to give it a try so we both got to be experts on catch and release. Getting them off the hook is tricky because the slime on the spines in their fins is mildly poisonous. If they stab you with them and it gets infected you can end up in the hospital. So not only do the buggers steal all your bait, they can hurt you. Our mantra while fishing these 2 weeks was “NO MORE CATFISH!”
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