Apalachee Bay Aug 24-25
Posted: August 25th, 2019, 7:43 pm
We fished both days this weekend, after missing out the entire previous weekend due to the poor weather.
Saturdays weather was pretty nice, slick calm, clear, and pretty hot. We planned on going far offshore, but due to some issues with my Garmin bottom machine, we had no sonar. So we worked a few closer in spots that we knew by the chart. We saw lots of bait near the surface, but no evidence of much of it being harassed by larger fish. We threw lots of spoons and jerkbaits at the bait, but with little sucess besides a single spanish mackeral and some ladyfish.
Maybe I've got the wrong lure, but we tried small spoons, bigger spoons, 5" jerk baits, paddletails, etc. The spanish we did catch was on a white Zoom jerkbait.
Nonetheless, the water was beautiful and calm.
We picked up some birthday balloons that were probably 6 miles offshore, and saved multiple sea turtles, porpoises and mermaids.
Sunday, we took some kids tubing, and then tried fishing inshore. We ended up with a few trout, black sea bass, and a shark for our efforts. I was really hoping for flounder, and worked some bottom lures for some time, but with no success.
It started off as a windy day, but calmed down as the day went on.
We hit the sandbar for a little R&R, and tossed out a few small bait chunks to the pinfish there. Quickly a swarm of pinfish showed up, followed by three big catfish. That might be a good way to get bait with a castnet, instead of sabiki rigs.
We stopped at Mafia Pizza on the way home and enjoyed a delicious Calzone. The food and service are great there, and it's well worth the stop.
Saturdays weather was pretty nice, slick calm, clear, and pretty hot. We planned on going far offshore, but due to some issues with my Garmin bottom machine, we had no sonar. So we worked a few closer in spots that we knew by the chart. We saw lots of bait near the surface, but no evidence of much of it being harassed by larger fish. We threw lots of spoons and jerkbaits at the bait, but with little sucess besides a single spanish mackeral and some ladyfish.
Maybe I've got the wrong lure, but we tried small spoons, bigger spoons, 5" jerk baits, paddletails, etc. The spanish we did catch was on a white Zoom jerkbait.
Nonetheless, the water was beautiful and calm.
We picked up some birthday balloons that were probably 6 miles offshore, and saved multiple sea turtles, porpoises and mermaids.
Sunday, we took some kids tubing, and then tried fishing inshore. We ended up with a few trout, black sea bass, and a shark for our efforts. I was really hoping for flounder, and worked some bottom lures for some time, but with no success.
It started off as a windy day, but calmed down as the day went on.
We hit the sandbar for a little R&R, and tossed out a few small bait chunks to the pinfish there. Quickly a swarm of pinfish showed up, followed by three big catfish. That might be a good way to get bait with a castnet, instead of sabiki rigs.
We stopped at Mafia Pizza on the way home and enjoyed a delicious Calzone. The food and service are great there, and it's well worth the stop.
