This is my post for #freewriters Sunday prompt craft hosted by @mariannewest
When most people see the word craft, I bet the first thing that came to their mind is arts and crafts, but not me. The first thing that I thought of was our crafts aka boats. Over the years, I can recall 12 that we have had. We now have 3.
The one in the photo is one that my husband built. It is called a bowrigger, the motor is in the front, and it is in a well that is in the middle of the front half. This made the motor run in shallow water. It was for catching mullet. Mullet are a shallow water fish, they like to be on grass flats. He is setting mullet in this picture. "Setting" is when he runs his net around a school of fish. The pelicans are diving on the fish that are hitting the net.
In this photo, he is going to the buoy on the end of the net. He will grab the buoy and start pulling the net back into the boat.
He will pick the fish from the net and put them on ice in the fish box. He picks the net up by pulling the boat backward and putting the net in the stern.
Sometimes he would catch so many fish that he would "rope them in". This is what we call it when you pull the net and fish back in the boat and go to the fish house to clear the net.
This was the fish house, you can see the scales in the doorway. The rails on the dock are for a trolley that was pushed up and down the dock.
My husband is tying up the first craft that we bought together. You can see the trolley on the dock.
This picture has nothing to do with craft but it shows the dock better and I am proud of this fish. 10 and 3/4 pound trout that I caught on my splatter pole. A splatter pole is basically a 19-foot cane pole, with no reel, just a pole, line, and hook.
All photos are mine
