A little help PLLEEAAASSEE

[GoneFishin]

ok, I got a little problem hopefully yall will help me out with. I went hunting up in Mississippi back in dec, and met some of the nicest guys I've ever been around, and they put me on more ducks than I could image. We got to talking one night around the fire and I brought up trout and reds. these guys had never even seen one. I told them they didn't know what they were missing and had to offer them a trip down in the spring for some fishin and gobbler hunting. they're headed down wednesday.
I've got control of the turkeys, and I got the reds, but I just cannot get on a mess of trout. I want nothing more than to see these guys get a few nice size trout. where are they at? I havent even tried for them to hard yet this year it's been all reds and turkey for me. I'm not asking for anyones honey hole, just a general area where yall have found 'em recently around st marks--I'm kinda in a bind cause I want so bad for them to take some pictures home of a gator trout or 2...what's my best bet??

[Talltails]

Set up a drift about a mile off the lighthouse. Start throwing a Cajun thunder popping cork with two feet of leader tied to a gulp shrimp on a jighead. Ya'll should get 'em good.

[GoneFishin]

yall are catchin em on the flats?

[Jumptrout51]

He's right. This time of year the trout should be found from the lighthouse to Palmetto Island, Black Rock area.

P.S. Always offer a fishing TRIP. Not FISH.

[GoneFishin]

well we'll try it it...I've been fishin towards palmetto for reds but not caught many trout but thanks guys....and yea, that is great advise about a trip, not a fish, but I was to caught up in the moment probably.

[Mook!]

I think right now we're somewhere in the great unknown between the regular winter patterns and the 'spring flats explosion' aka 'the pop' and that with the cold front coming thorugh last night and tonight, the pattern for Wednesday is somewhat unpredictable. I agree with what the folks said above for trout in general, but if you want to find the gators, I'd try around oyster bars and large rock formations with soft baits. I haven't seen many big ones out in the general flats yet and caught 5 of them over 20 in the St MArks area in the last couple weeks. All of them were within 100 feet of large rocks / oyster bars. Cold weather will only drive them closer to all that.

[wevans]

I don't fish over that way but with the cold weather we are going ta have, I would put WHATEVER I am fishing with as close to a rock or Oyster bar as I could, and move it SLOWWWWW

[Reel Cowboy]

Find something tangible, rocks, oyster bars maybe even a pothole and concentrate on those. I think Mook! is dead on in that these fish don't know where to go with this weather. Wevans makes a good point as well in that these fish are probably going to be real sluggish and if you don't put it in front of their face and close they'll have a hard time trying to run it down. To borrow a line from Ty he doesn't fish for reds just big trout and they all hang out in the same places (see I was paying attention Ty).
These are all ideas we talk about this time every year.

[gonefishing]

nope.......slow down,drift sock,pp,or anchor150 ft increments,on the edge of the grass changing tides not slack