saturday was a beautiful day. sunny and 80 degrees with a real light breeze just good enough to keep it cool. had a limit of trout in about 15 minutes with all being 19 inches and then...
........... ............. ........ I woke up.
The trees were bent over sideways on the river and i knew this would be an Apalach shopping trip for the wife. when we headed out of east point and over the bridge i can't ever recal an ANGRIER day. cloudy, spitting rain and the bay looked as if a space ship was about to explode out of it it was so rough. on our way back we were just in front of the tornado that went thru northwestern wakulla county. i was pumping gas and we saw it coming. needless to say, i didn't get a full tank.
sunday we watched it rain til about 1:30. i couldn't stand sitting around any longer and asked around and none of the guys would go out with me.
but the wife did. 
we headed out and as soon as we got to the mouth of the river i knew it was going to be a great afternoon. very quiet, peaceful with a small breeze. the rain completely quit as soon as we got to the first spot. only a handful of boats out. man it was nice. the trout were the most finicky i have ever seen, but we ended up with 7 decent fish. they would only hit a gulp under a cork. not any other grub and only in 5.5 to 6 feet. not shallower and not deeper. they would hit it five or six times like pinfish (we could see them under it) and then you could jerk it real fast several times and they would take it. there was one we watched that must have been 25 inches long or more do this. very odd.monday was also a nice day out. after the fog lifted we headed out to a low tide around 11 and several boats stuck at the mouth. all the boats were on the right path to head out, but they never got up on plane back in the channel and so it looked like 5 oclock atlanta traffic right past the tripod. anyway, first spot started out slow. wife had two nice blues on topwater which was fun to watch. finally hit the magic depth and had 3 nice keepers. this time, they would only hit a bait (anykind of plastic) twitched along the bottom with no cork. they would hit it, hang on like a pinfish and then you would realize it was a little bigger than a pinfish and you would have a nice trout. no little guys either. all three were nice 17 - 19 inch fish. got tired of the slowness and changed to reds and wife had a little one on the second cast. almost took the rod out of her hand
. we ended up with 10 reds and 3 nice trout for the day. by the time we had to leave the tide was ripping in big time. hated we had to go, but had to get back to Georgia.Overall, two pretty slow weekends fishing wise. This weekend really took the cake however with the weather.
after all that paddlin'.
