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Well we all know there has been quite a recovery in red snapper in our area over the last 15 or so years. I wonder how much of that was due to the restrictions on recreational anglers and how much was due to the restrictions on shrimp trawls.

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Fun to shine a.light across shallow.water.at.noght. mullet will.jump right in the boat. Flounder gigging around.ths bars especially now as the water cools off can be very productive.

Properly prepared a night on the flats.can be a great.experience. a different world out there after dark.

For me fast and simple

Line to leader surgeon knot. Braid to leader 3 wrap surgeon.

Leader to hook trilene. With a heaver leader Palomar.

It should show up on your GPS

That line is the st.marks national wildlife refuge national resource boundary

Spanish
Cook fresh like the day you caught it and it is fine eating

I keep it simple. Leave the skin on. Sprinkle salt pepper and a little old bay. Throw it on the grill till the meat.turns white.

Eat up!

Well i agree that around st marks cobia are on our shallow artifical reefs all summer. The migration which they fish heavily in the panhandle occurs in the spring.

Well since Mexico Beach Ling tournament is mid April say the 14-16 i would say April 15 would be a good bet

March is always a tease. Nice warm days but lots of wind. Water just isn't consistent temperature wise.

I always say tax day. April 15th

We have had a warm winter but like today we can still have some cold spells and those flats cool off quickly. Fish are moving around with the weather.

but the therapy is hell.

most important that you do it though. its the key to a sucessful outcome

ramp is repaired

opening tomorrow

yep

glad those Rocks keep most people out of that area. i cring when i see the scallopers running through there in the summer.

for a new guy i recommend you run outside till about grey mare and then just ease in there. after a few trips you can have a clear pat on your chart plotter

trout prefer a salinity around 17 to 35 parts per thousand

well we all know in the winter when we have really cold weather the trout stack up in the rivers. when we get a big flush of.fresh water it.seems to push the trout right out of there.

this year has just been a constant flush of freah water ...

yep

i let them back until i can see from the rod action they are bumping bottom and then reel up a bit. if they don't come to the surface every now and then fouled with a piece of sponge you aren't deep.enough. braid helps to get them down but you have to have the drag set where it just keeps the ...

fish bite when they are hungry. you can sit on a spot marking fish for hours without a bite. Then suddenly for no apparent reason every drop you get a bite.

my best luck out of st marks is take a 165 heading off the sea bouy and run to 30 to 35 feet of water. look for the stone crab bouys. put out ...