St. Marks 2007.09.15

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St. Marks 2007.09.15

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Left from the fort with mojokoko just after sunrise, headed out around the oyster bars at the river mouth as there were still some nasty clouds and a little bit of distant but visible lightning and some thunder. We were surrounded by nasty looking clouds until prolly about 9:00 but never got rained on.

I picked up some baby trout color soft swin baits from Tsunami last night cause they looked interesting. I hooked one on an 18" leader and got 2 trout and a nice keeper flounder in my first 8 casts, so they're my new favorite bad weather jig. I forget what they're actually called, but they were about $3.50 for a 5 pack of 4 inchers and they come with hooks and embedded weights already in them.

We drifted the sand bar west of the channel for a while when the sun came out, got a lot of bites but boated nothing there, moved to the east flats and drifted randomly for a couple hours. We got into a bunch of trout and mojo and I both caught multiple keeper trout on topwater - me with a 4" shad Zara spook and him with bone Super Spook.

Left there around 11 and headed back around the oyster bars - the eerie calm pictured in the other reports occurred when we were in the middle of all the oyster bars, so it was a topwater-gasm for about an hour. LOTS of action, but we didn't land anything super.

Ended up picking up a small red and some more trout over there, headed in around 1:30 to catch football, and man was the ramp at the fort ever pleasant without the scallopers - waited in line behind one person who wasn't an idiot and got right out. UV index must have been off the chain cause I got a little crispy with SPF 50. As you can see in the pics I had to switch to the goofier looking hat later in the day to keep the sun off my face.

In all, we got ump-teeen trout; all were keepers, but none were big. I think 18" was the biggest but most were within a half inch of 16. I neglected to photograph the flounder, but it was 15" and I was surprised to catch it on a jerking swimbait on a cajun thunder...tasty... no really big fish today but a great day on the water, and made it home in time for all the good football games.

Me with some fishes

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Mojo and some fish

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Post by tin can »

Sounds like a good day.

I'm pretty sure I saw you around the bar. I was just south of you, on the point.
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Post by Sir reel »

Good report. Boy the conditions sure don't match what was forecasted :evil: It's tough to have made plans based on the expected and not be able to get out of them to go fishing when the forecast turns out to be junk. :thumbdown:
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Post by Reel Slow »

Sounds like steady action gents :thumbup:
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Post by Eerman »

solid day :thumbup:
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Post by birddog »

nice :thumbup: :thumbup:
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Post by Mook! »

If anyone cares, the Tsunami's I was experimenting with are actually 5", not 4, and are Tsunami TM5-28 called 5" Trout Mauler - Sea Trout color. For the price, I was impressed with the the action, and they flashed green and red about as bright as a spoon when the sun was out. Mostly I was impressed with the fact that I caught 5 fish on them before the bite slowed down, at which point the thing was pretty thrashed. I give em :thumbup: :thumbup: on day one. This weekend I'm going to free-line them with no CT and try workin em like a jerk'n shad and we'll see what happens.



Also, FYI, mojokoko was throwing 4" New Penny gulps the same way in the same spot at the same time and hooked nothin (although he did get quite a few hits), so eat that gulp-juice-heads!

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Post by snatch-n-reel »

Good day on the water. Thanks for the info.
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Post by dawghouse1 »

Thanks for the report :thumbup: :thumbup:
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