St. Marks 3-31-07

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St. Marks 3-31-07

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The wife and kid headed off to the parade and I decided to stay home to get some things done around the quiet house. The parade was just not my thing :sleep: While cleaning up the garage, I found a tackle box I had been looking for. I cleaned it out and got it organized to go fishing. Then I thought, why not today??? I called my buddy Jeff who informed me that he was home rotating the tires on his truck. I asked him if he wanted to do something better than that, so we decided to hook up the boat and head to the flats :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
We got to shell Island Fish Camp around 1:45 PM. A kind gent offered us the last of his live shrimp......which we gladly accepted being that Scott @ Jerry's told us there was no shrimp to be found anywhere :roll: (We stopped by there on the way down and witnessed a guy down there with a 7 ft. bullshark in the bed of his truck :o ....said he had caught it an hour before right in front of the lighthouse on cutbait.....Scott took a pic.) Anyhow, we left SIFC and sped down to the flats just east of the lighthouse. We set up a drift and Jeff hung a nice trout on his 2nd cast. He got it right up to the boat and it slung the lure :x I threw a live shrimp out the back and started throwing a new penny gulp out the front. The trout were biting almost immediately on both lines. I decided to just use the shrimp and put 4 nice trout in the cooler. Eventually, the spanish moved in and we boated a few of them. We made 3 drifts over the next 2.5 hours never leaving the area. When the bite slowed, we decided to head back in with a nice cooler of fish. Great day on the water with a good friend :beer: :beer: :beer: :thumbup: :thumbup: :roll:

TOTAL FOR THE DAY: 10 TROUT (16"-19")
4 SPANISH (16"-21")

The fish seemed to bite the best in 4-7 ft. depths. Anything less than that produced nothing. Bait of the day was live shrimp and new penny gulps fished under a CT. We did throw one live sand trout out and retrieved only a head.....guessing it was the spanish.
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Sounds like a decent afternoon. :thumbup:
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Post by Reel Slow »

A classic Pavlov's response...see tackle box....must fish...or, perhaps you just didn't feel like working :lol:

Good story Dolphinatic
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Post by flatpicker »

...see tackle box....must fish...or, perhaps you just didn't feel like working

This is how I feel every day. Nice day on the water Dolphinatic. A 7ft bull shark in front of the lighthouse :o :o .

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Nice afternoon :thumbup: :thumbup:
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St. Mark's Fishing...Well done, D-Man!

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I woulda, coulda, shoulda... :smt005
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:thumbup: :thumbup:
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That's a whole lot better than what I was doing. W :thumbup: TG
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:thumbup: nice quickie
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