Well on our way leads to the next part of the journey. Neither of us and had ever circumnavigated Spring creek. I'm cruising along, following the channel markers out. As you get close to Oyster Bay and Shell Point the channel markers become interesting to say the least. More like a maze. Take a 90 degree turn, another one and a 180 here and there. Well during one of the 180’s and being in a myriad of channel markers. I'm looking for another red
, is that bait fish ahead , no 
..CHIT!"...Yep.... Ran over a bar in about 6" of water. Transom still in tack, foot is okay (paint missing)...I think I wet myself. On the way in we found the error in our way, not by our fault either. The red #30 marker is missing 
. When you’re more or less surrounded by channel markers and one is missing that is a problem. Tom said he would post our track. Other than all the turns it is a good creek to run out.On to fishing... We arrived over towards Patties Island / Goose Creek area.... Started red fishing a point I had found during my research. After about 10 minutes I landed a puppy red and Tom landed a Ladyfish. We work the bank down to an old dock. Tom misses a 30+ red (we saw it) and I missed something that left a boil the size of a truck hood. Saw a nice Bull shark, he wanted my stick bait
. It's getting hot now and nearing slack tide, so we race our way to a bar in the middle of the bay. Our racing partner decides it's his bar and motors past us . He doesn't catch anything, but I hung a good trout on the side he didn't fish 
.....We end up fishing a sand flat that dropped off into deeper water. Got into a pack of ladyfish, that was fun at slack tide. Ended up with 7 keeper trout, missed / lost several trout and caught a bluefish, a flounder, several ladyfish and some blue runners. Pound for pound a Blue runner is a bad dude.Bait used were Mirrolures, various stick baits, topwater and straight jigs.
Saw all kinds of critters to include Spadefish, sharks (some big, couldn’t get Tom to go swim with them either
), catfish and various other types of wildlife.I told Tom if Shell Point was closed we need to fish Aucilla, before we became biased about fishing stained water. Think I am becoming biased
.Highlight of the day was two Cobia. Tom caught a 15" and I caught my first one, a 30". Tom has the pictures and will post them
Something about that Keels guy, bringing first time luck to me, my first grouper, now my first cobia…I told him he needed to give me six numbers to play .Ended up meeting up with Rocket, Fish Masterson, Sneakybooger and Cranfield around 1:00. We talked with Wevans on the radio a few times. We tried to raise a few others, but nobody had their ears on....Nice to meet everyone, even the "Limey"
Cranfield. Nice to meet everyone and I appreciate all those that took part in the flotilla, hope to see everyone else next time…..
I had depth finder problems and just could not fix it 
I fished till 10 and then just had ta go home and do something with it "ended up changing it out. No fish for the day, but a lot of BIG blow-ups on a top dog jr., nothing on the jig & ct! The wife decided that we should make the rest of the day a family day and I could not disagree since I was going out for Grouper today "but thats another story 
