Fishing St Marks

[reelcatch]

Well this past weekend was not real good for being on the water. I finally made it out Sunday about 1. Seas were flat and turned even flatter by the time I came in. Fished stretch 25 and 30's all afternoon and only managed two shorts. Should have been ready to go well off shore given the seas but too late of a start and not thinking the seas would be that calm kept me close. Good day out though, got to run the boat and enjoy being on the water.

[captkeyser]

I was out there as well. The bite was off. All we got was three short Grouper. Now the trout bite on the other hand was on fire. Quickly picked up an easy 4man limit in about an hour... threw um all back though. Thanks for the report.

[reelcatch]

Man I almost started trout fishing!!!!! Could not give up on the grouper though.

[leesburgga]

if you don't mind, how deep were the trout? on the flats, in the river, etc.? just curious with all the rain that we have been having lately.

[fishinfool]

I can tell you they were not around the oysters in east river or big pass island or in front of the lighthouse or in big creek. Fished hard from 9am to 3pm with flukes and live shrimp under a cork and on the bottom. No bites of any kind!

[leesburgga]

fishinfool, that sounds like one of my days...hence my question.

[captkeyser]

The trout ARE stacked up around the bars almost anywhere in the St. Marks. I happen to fish a stretch of bars on the West bank. You want to find bars that have a deep drop off on either side. Fish a jig/grub combination this time of year I use white with chartreuse tail. The jig head color dosen't seem to matter.... we caught them on both white and red. The key is slooooow....do more reeling rather than bouncing. Picture the jig slowly gliding along about 6"s from the bottom.

That's how I do it anyway.