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We went to Aucilla today, Friday, Nov 21 in spite of the weather forcast. Arrived at the landing about 0730 to some nasty cold winds out of the north/northwest and some pretty good waves down the river....but we launched..fairly low water. We went down to the "rockpile" about 500 yds down from the landing and started fishing...with grubs. Got zip there...down to the mudbar...zip....streightaway...zip. North of the island...zip and about to freeze..although bundled-up. The wind was abuilding higher so we went down below the island....where we proceeded to strike-out once more...and was drifting about 20 mph.
Before you would know it...we were down to the approach to the mouth of the river....and hadt got a bite...two boats of well experanced fisherman.
Well that was the way it ended too....not a bite between the 4 of us...and we were freezing too. I've been to Aucilla when it was 19 degrees...it was cold then...but today????
Used jigs with gulp...mirrolures...catch 2000...things that have produced in the past...but not today. The water was clear...no grass...but no fish either. I had heard the fish were in the river...but not today. Few mullet were seen..few people were trying to snatch them. Didn't see any caught...trout or mullet. About 10 boats were there.
The front passed this mornin the fish won't bite till Sunday now "maybe a few tomorrow" Damned tuff of y'all ta try it today though
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wevans wrote:The front passed this mornin the fish won't bite till Sunday now "maybe a few tomorrow" Damned tuff of y'all ta try it today though
This is purely my observation based on last week's results. On Saturday, the fish were bitting like crazy in almost everywhere we fished. Then the wind started blowing and the temp started dropping in the afternoon. By late afternoon, the fishing got really slow but once in a while we would pick up 2-3 fish in a row and then nothing. The front passed through overnight so needless to say the wind blew all night churning up the water and of course, the water temp dropped from 73 to 59 degree overnight. We basically had the same pattern as on Saturday evening, catching nothing in a long drift and then had multiple bites and then nothing again for a long time. Once we observed this pattern, we decided to run back up wind and drift the same area again once we get a bite - this pays off for us as everytime we run up wind and drift to the same area, about the size of 20-30 yards wide, we were getting bites. Most of our keeper fish were caught on this one area. We must have covered miles and miles of good grassy areas adn didnt even get a sniffed. Anyway, I think the fish are there and still willing to bite even when the temperature drops. Its just that they are more tightly schooled and takes a lot more efforts to find.
Nice observation Breambuster. I would think that would mean that once you find'em, toss the anchor and stick with'em. The only place they have to go around Aucilla or Econfina are up the river or out to deep water. I don't remember if you said how deep you were fishing in your post this week. How deep is the channel at Keaton?
WaltDawg wrote:Nice observation Breambuster. I would think that would mean that once you find'em, toss the anchor and stick with'em. The only place they have to go around Aucilla or Econfina are up the river or out to deep water. I don't remember if you said how deep you were fishing in your post this week. How deep is the channel at Keaton?
We caught most of the fish on an hole about 5.5' deep that was extended from a deep point that was mostly sand - trout dont hang out in sand so my thinking is that they stay in this spot because of the grass. The surounding areas was only about 3'. Remember this was only a couple of hours after a negative low tide. I initially thought the fish would be lock jaw but these fish were hungry, striking very agreesively and running with the bait 10 yards or more.
the fish won't bite till Sunday now "maybe a few tomorrow" 
Damned tuff of y'all ta try it today though 
