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I bought two Spheros 4000 FA's early last summer..Think they were about 85 bucks apiece including tax...I used them extensively the rest of the year and am perfectly satisified with them..If I was gonna buy another spinning reel tomorrow it would be the Shimano Spheros... I have a couple older Shima...

He don't use this kinda math for measuring up fish does he TC ?

A hard bottom returns a stronger signal than a soft bottom does..Consequently, a thin whiteline would indicate a softer bottom..A thicker whiteline would indicate a harder bottom.. At least this is what my Garmin does..If you cross a hump or rise on the bottom with a wide whiteline it may indicate t...

Tom, One more bit of advice I could offer would be for you to go back to the archives of this forum under offshore reports and read every one of them..I read them so many times I can almost tell you what they say before I read them but what I've learned is invaluable..Information from members like t...

Welcome Tom ! A year ago my situration was like yours...Only numbers I had were public ones like the reefs...Early in the summer we started venturing further and further out fishing bait, ect...Then started trolling..The whole time keeping a close watch of the bottom and structure and marking spots ...

Welcome aboard RJ ! appreciate that first report...Makes me wonder whats the situation out in the deeper water..Seems like you should have at least had some small stuff picking on shrimp...Last time I went out to 20-25 ft about a month ago bottom was basically bare... Again, appreciate your report a...

For the past couple of months I've been entertaining the idea of trading boats....I have a Carolina Skiff V-19 with a 90 Mercury two stroke motor...boat and motor 2004 model... Boat has served me well..I've used it a lot out of St Marks and its tough as a battlewagon..( one feller referred to it awh...

Is your new boat the 1900 CC or 196 Bay Reef ? What kind of motor did you get with it ?

I have a Shakespeare 5206-C 8 ft fiberglass on my boat..Along with a Standard Horizon Eclipse plus radio...Antenna mounted with a ratchet mount on the grab rail of the console..I usually stay within 15 miles of St Marks and never have any trouble with a radio check at the marinas...And if I get very...

T.C. sounds like your day mirrored last Friday for us...We went about nine miles or so south to some good numbers..Water was about the same temp, 48-51 degrees and clear.. Trolled most of the day with various colored stretches and even stopped on some rocks and soaked ly's....nothing at all...water ...

We probably won't make it to 35' tomorrow...Plan to work some numbers I caught fish on in Sept and Oct ..These in the 20 - 25 ' range...Gonna let the weather and seas dictate how far out we go..

Anybody even heard of anyone catching any grouper trolling lately ? Figger we'll be on the water bout 8:30 or so...Gonna let it warm up a bit fore heading out of St Marks...

We saw some of them "threes" and "fours" and "occasional" fives yesterday !

Stretches sure didnt work for us yesterday...Drug them for about four hours over bottom that had been really paying off in the past month..Caught one lizard fish... Places that had been showing fish previously were bare yesterday..Couple of rock piles we'd taken some fish off had nothing on them...I...

Planning on hitting the deep water early outta St Marks Sat morning...All I got to do tomorrow is grease my motor and bearings and top off the gas tanks..If the forecast holds it oughta be a nice day to catch bout anything...