During the November red fish run in the surf, I had some spectacular luck fishing the rocks right out in front of my little condo.  No one could believe that I simply walked a few yards from my front door and started to fill my freezer with such delicious seafood, least of all me.  Word started to spread among the locals.  It didn’t take long for our favorite pool guy at Diamond Beach, Bonito, to get wind of my unexpected success.  Bonito grew up in “the valley” (Harlingen).  No doubt there was neither time nor money for such extravagances as fishing rods and bait when he was a child.  He looked at me over the top of his pool equipment one day and said, “Miss Reeeta, please teach me how you do this.”  Who could turn down such a request?  On his next day off I met him out front on the rocks with some dead shrimp, an old pink and black rod I was going to donate, and a few red fish rigs.  He was a natural, casting that rig further out and with more precision than I ever could.  That was it; he was addicted.  Now every day Bonito has off, he is fishing.  When he caught something recently at the new 61st Street Park, he started texting me the pictures. “What are they Miss Reeeta?”  I hated to disappoint him, but he had to know the truth, they were little pinfish that most people use for bait:)  I could read the disappointment in his next text, “but Miss Reeeta, I can’t eat them?  I was so hungry for fish!”  Needless to say, at my insistence, he drove away from Diamond Beach that day with some nicely filleted and recently frozen redfish fillets from Miss Reeeta:)