the other night, i went fishing,based on a magazine that gives tidal info,it stated that the tide was going to be weak all night,so on that info i decided to fish for mangrove snapper since they are easier to catch on a slack tide.well the place i was trying to fish i have only been there once so i couldn't find the place at night,and i ended up going to the pier,normally i won't fish the pier on purpose on a slack tide because normally trout is what hangs around,and as all you fisherman know gamefish feed on outgoing or incoming tide not on a slack tide.now to make matters worse half of the bridge(pier) was under water lights and all, taken down by a recent hurricane (dolly) that had just passed through,well decided i was already there might just as well stay. going home was 1 1/2 hrs away.the few people that were there left because it just got too dark and with no light available they didn't want to risk a slip into the water.I had taken a gas lantern for the mangrove fishing spot,so i lit it up,at least i had some light even if it was a bit.then i rememberd that i had a green submersible light so i decided to might as well put that in the water,so here i am on a broken pier no light,no tide movement,no wind and the only thing biting were the mosquitos,well i kid you not about 2 am the microrganisms stared gathering at the green light and the small bait then bigger bait i started seeing shrimp about 5in.showing up all of a sudden the action began i had 3 poles in the water and they were all getting hit at the same time, i started pulling in trout, redfish,croaker,blackdrum and this frenzy continued all the way to 9:00am non-stop.with my biggest catch being a 3lb trout,i lost a 3 ft trout that was lost at the waters edge,but at least i got to see the monster fish.wow. but the most strangest of the evnts of that night was the light.remember i told you that half of the pier lights were under water,well the 3 pier lights that were still hanging on to the rest of the pier their wire were cut off so to avoid electrical shock, but at exactly 4:00 am them lights made like a cracking sound and they turned on and just gave light to all the pier,and the light that turned on was the one i was fishing directly under. what do you people think of this strange happenings or do you consider it normal.as for the tides they remained slack all night long even when i leaving their was still no water movement,just like the magazine had stated.
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