ST Marks NWR - 10 May 2015
Posted: May 10th, 2015, 8:39 pm
Fished St Marks from 7:30AM - 1:30 PM. Better than last week, but still slow. Ended up with 2 trout, one at 18" caught topwater on a Gartside Gurgler and one at 20" caught on an olive/chart/white clouser. Also picked up a spanish at 15" on the same clouser. Had a few cut-offs and short strikes from spanish as well. Long bar produced all three fish today - couldn't get anything at the wash bar or other oyster bars to the west. The water is clear with a slight tannin stain. Saw lots of mullet and glass minnows ,along with a manatee, sharks, rays and a turtle. I brought home the smaller trout and the spanish - the trout had been eating shrimp, not baitfish.