Offshore fishing

gwheeler · Post by **gwheeler** » April 13th, 2007, 9:21 am

I've bought a 19' Wellcraft V-hull and now want to get offshore with it. The problem is that I've never fished offshore from the St. Marks area before (went out of Boynton Beach when I lived there). Anyhow, where's a good place to find coordinates besides using the standard charts and using trial and error to find spots that hold fish?

Post by **sundown** » April 13th, 2007, 9:50 am

Your best bet out of St Marks is to go to the public reefs as shown on your chart and then start working off them...lots of good bottom close to them..Just go to the area and start trolling while watching your bottom machine...when you find something that looks good , mark it... check it out..

Post by **Tom Keels** » April 13th, 2007, 9:53 am

gwheeler wrote:I've bought a 19' Wellcraft V-hull and now want to get offshore with it. The problem is that I've never fished offshore from the St. Marks area before (went out of Boynton Beach when I lived there). Anyhow, where's a good place to find coordinates besides using the standard charts and using trial and error to find spots that hold fish?

Did you get the ones from here?

http://www.bigbendfishing.net/reefs.htm

gwheeler · Post by **gwheeler** » April 13th, 2007, 1:11 pm

Sundown... that's what I figured I'd be doing. TK...Nope, I didn't know about that thanks! I'll be going out Sunday and checking those coordinates. That link is a lot more comprhensive than what I've found so far. I've been fishing the flats for a while with a friend of mine in his boat and I decided to get an offshore rig so we can cover both inshore and offshore....now I just need to find the fish

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CATCH 22 · Post by **CATCH 22** » April 13th, 2007, 1:15 pm

Better check the weather before you make any plans

gwheeler · Post by **gwheeler** » April 13th, 2007, 1:23 pm

Yeah, I'm hoping the wind lays down finally. When I took the boat out the first time I was so excited to actually get it in the water that I didn't care what the conditions were like (within reason LOL). I can attest that the V-hull can handle 5-6 waves pretty well. Although my friend Mark had more issues with the waves than the boat did

. If the seas are running high I'll just stay in protected waters and work on my trout fishing.

gwheeler · Post by **gwheeler** » April 13th, 2007, 1:33 pm

Ugh! Nevermind. Just looked at the forecast. Maybe I'll try to talk the wife into going out in the morning and fish in protected waters. Sunday looks bad. Darnit...why do conditions have to be bad every time I want to go out for the last month

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Buzztail · Post by **Buzztail** » April 13th, 2007, 6:07 pm

You'd be out there without me-That much is for sure

SATURDAY
SOUTH WIND 15 TO 20 KNOTS INCREASING TO 20 TO 25 KNOTS
IN THE AFTERNOON. SEAS 4 TO 6 FEET BUILDING TO 6 TO 8 FEET IN THE
AFTERNOON. PROTECTED WATERS CHOPPY INCREASING TO ROUGH. A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON.

SATURDAY NIGHT
SOUTH WIND 20 TO 25 KNOTS BECOMING SOUTHWEST
AFTER MIDNIGHT. SEAS 7 TO 9 FEET. PROTECTED WATERS ROUGH. SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE.

SUNDAY
WEST WIND 20 TO 25 KNOTS. SEAS 7 TO 9 FEET. PROTECTED
WATERS ROUGH. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
MORNING.

gwheeler · Post by **gwheeler** » April 16th, 2007, 7:54 am

Well we stayed in this weekend. I changed out spark plugs and worked on my VHF antanna mount. It was just way to rough to take the wife out fishing. This weekend I'm going to a Coast Guard class on boating with the wife and a friend of mine on Saturday. Hope to get out Sunday.

Post by **Reel Cowboy** » April 18th, 2007, 8:29 pm

gwheeler wrote: Darnit...why do conditions have to be bad every time I want to go out for the last month .

That is just the way it goes.

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