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Spring is here on the flats - finally had a good day on the St Marks oyster bars for this year. Fished from 8:15 AM to 2:00PM and had steady activity with some good spurts of action. First thing I tried a gartside gurgler and got one, then lost 3 more due to missed hook sets or thrown hooks. Went with a beadchain clouser in olive/chart/white with a hot pink "throat" and got a few more. Also got a 26" red. By noon, had about 9 trout and the red. All trout were mid or upper slots. With the tide just starting to flood, I switched to a chart/white puglisi minnow fly and picked up 5 more trout, plus another on the beadchain clouser. Ended the day with 15 mid to upper slot trout and the redfish.

Thanks for the report. Sounds like it was an excellent outing.

Nice work. Sounds like you had'em dialed in. I should probably fish ST. Mark's more since it is closer to my house but my son and wife prefer Econfina. Tight Lines!

I lost five Clousers playing with the spanish....fun fun fun

Hate getting cut off. Blues? May go to wire bite tippet. Its a little spendy, but beats losing fish and fly's.

Surprised I didn't run into any spanish yesterday - last week at the refuge I got cut off by one.

eightwt wrote:Hate getting cut off. Blues? May go to wire bite tippet. Its a little spendy, but beats losing fish and fly's.

I'm prob not going to use a wire tippet but I am curious as to how long you make it ?

Do a 6" length of 50 lb mono as a bite guard or shock tippet and it will reduce your cutoffs.

Yeah, that will do it, a little too much for me....but I can't see the wire turning over in a tight cast ?

I have used TyGer stainless 15 lbs when fishing where pike are present. Knots pretty well. As I recall it was about $11 for 10 or 12 feet. Didn't have too many issues with the cast as I recall. 50 lbs bite tippet for sure is an option as long as what you're targeting is not leader shy.

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