What’s For Dinner?

What’s for dinner? Let me explain what I mean by describing the event that led to this question.
Early one morning last week I was fly fishing the banks of the Intracoastal Waterway in search of trout. I started with a top water fly but when that didn’t produce I went to deeper water (dropoffs), a weighted fly and an intermediate fly line. An intermediate fly line has a slow sink rate. The combination of the fly and line allows you to present your offering at deeper depths.
As I proceeded to fish I noticed an unusual amount of dolphins in the ICW that morning probably because of the abundance of bait. After watching some of them explode on the bait and eating they seemed to move on their way. A few minutes later I hooked into my first trout of the day.
It was a nice trout about 23 inches in length. She was a feisty gal that didn’t want to come to the boat. She was putting up a grand fight when I noticed over my shoulder on the opposite side of the boat about 10 feet away there was a dolphin hanging around. The trout had taken me under the boat a couple of times and then headed back out to open water. When I finally got the trout to the side of the boat I looked over and that dolphin was still there. It was acting anxiously.
When I reached down and grabbed hold of the leader to lift the fish in the boat the fish shook it’s head and flopped off the hook. (I crush the barbs on my fly’s to make for easy hook removals.) As soon as this happened I looked over my shoulder to see where the dolphin was and before I had a chance to turn my head back there was a huge explosion in the water where the trout had been. I was in awe at how fast that dolphin swam under my boat and how it seemed to know exactly when the trout came off the hook. Nature is an amazing creation.
Bon Appetit Mr. Dolphin!!
The FWC is still deliberating at weather or not to make the 3 miles south of the Rte 100 Bridge a no wake zone. This is all because of Manatee’s even though there is less than 1 Manatee death per year. I believe in conservation but this is wrong considering the small amount of navigable water we have here in Flagler County. It seems animals have more rights than humans nowadays. Boaters and fishermen get involved. Let the FWC know what you think about this matter before it’s too late.