A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
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Tide charts showed a negative low tide this evening. I've worked the bar off of the lighthouse in the past on an outgoing tide and have done pretty well ...
I got to the lighthouse around 7:30, and the wind was whipping out of the SW. As I was getting the kayak ready a couple of guys were loading up their truck. I asked how it was, the reply was "no good" As every red-blooded American male would think at that point, "Shoot, I can do better." So I pushed off and had a bitch of a time paddling out to the south end of the long bar. Used the tried and true Gulp under a Cajun Thunder ... nothing, not even a nibble. Stayed out until after sunset and finally called it.
Salvaged the evening by walking around the exposed bottom (huge negative tide) with a headlamp. There must have been at least a hundred hermit crabs - BIG ones. Tons of fiddler crabs, tiny shrimp (I found them by the copper reflection of their eyes), bait fish and blue? crabs.
I got skunked all weekend at St. Marks and I ran about 45 miles total (Sat and Sun) without a keeper fish. Fished from 2-12 feet. So don't feel that bad.
Forgot to mention in my report that I saw at least 20 deer from my way back from the lighthouse to Hwy. 98. The fish may not have been biting but the wildlife was out last night.
I feel your pain...fishing has been like that all week! I'm sure some of the gang has beat up a few fish! Well, let's hope this week is better, eh? 