Spring Warrior, 11/1/03

[manley]

Left the house at 5:45 AM today enroute to Spring Warrior Fish Camp-the first time for me, ever. Not a bad trip, a little shorter than Keaton... Okay, we can do this. Arrived about 7:15, put in on high tide, things good. Bite was slow early on, but picked up later in the day. Finished the limit just as the bite REALLY turned on about 1:00. Planned to head to the hill early... yeah right. stiff 15-20 mile per hour wind with low tide said otherwise. Spent two and a half hours wading, pulling, dragging the boat up the creek.

Steve and Nice Spring Warrior Trout:


A not so nice end to an otherwise good day:


I caught 2 of these:


What's he gonna do to that toadfish???


Finished the day with a nice two-person limit of trout, a 20" spanish, one nice 12" black, 20 or so short trout and various trash fish.

For what it's worth, FISHBITES seemed to improve on an otherwise slow bite today, but also increased the trash fish we caught.

[tin can]

Sounds like a good day, cept the low tide and pullin.

[DixieReb]

Hey, Scott!
Nice job. I only fished Spring Warrior once and didn't do near that good. We launched at Keaton and rode up the coast, so it was a ride. What did you get the 2 hammerheads on? Those were nice-un's.
I'm ready to get back down there myself, we did real good over at Hickory mound 2 weeks ago.
Sorry you had to pull the boat-the tide can work against you like that sometime. Glad you had a good day.

[Chalk]

WTG Scott, nice report

[CSMarine]

Good fishing Scott. I've pulled a boat into Spring Warrior more than one time. Try it sometime at night when it's too low to even pull, and the skeeters and sand nats wear you out for about two hours while waiting for the tide to let you back in.

[dstockwell]

wtg Scott... Next time go to SW via Keaton...

[manley]

Lesson learned, my friend. More than one way to catch a SW trout!