St. Marks 7/2

[Russell3]

Headed to St. Marks in the early a.m. hopefully before the holiday scalloping crowd gets down there. Haven't been down in a while and was wondering how well the trout are biting? Last time out there we couldn't keep pins out because of the shark.

[Rainman]

Trout bites been slow. Moon rise is 6:50 am so you got an early feed time. We've been putting some trout in the cooler around the bar in front of the light house but not many. Good luck! Stoney had some good fish last week.

[lonesouth]

I'm gonna do my best to get there before you with my scallop crowd, just so you won't miss out!

JK, I'm aiming for a 0930 arrival....

[Russell3]

Thanks RM, we will give it a shot. LS just make sure you take up both sides of the ramp with your pontoon boat when launching and also you are suppose to load your gear while on the ramp not in the staging are.

[TheWhaler15]

I've had good action past couple of trips on the flats just west of the rock garden. If you can get out there before scallopers arrive they are excellent grass flats!

[lonesouth]

Hope you don't mind if I do a little tuning on the ramp as well, motor has been acting up, but I need backpressure to diagnose it.

[HonkeyKong]

Don't know hot to call anybody Russ! I see how it is.

[fishinfool]

Lonesouth,
I will be there about the same time as R3. I will be taking my niece out for her first saltwater trip. If you want to borrow a rusty pair of pliers and a butter knife for your tune up just holler. We should be able to waste a good 10 minutes trying to get the pliers loose enough to use on something.

[TheWhaler15]

Went out to St. Marks today. Tons of scallopers. Landed on nice 20" trout on flats near Rock Garden, and saw a massive tarpon surface right near our boat over on the West Flats. Only action pretty much of the day...

[Russell3]

We ended up going to the west flats to stay away from everyone, fished from 7:30 to around 12:00. Trout were few and far between, did get four keepers largest being 19" on a pin off the back of the boat. Our story of the day, a 5' bull shark hit one of my favorite super spooks. I fought him for a couple minutes and when we got him next to the boat the S.O.B took off maybe 20 feet away from us, turned back and ran full force into the back side of my boat (Head First). We all got a chuckle broke him off and went back to fishing. Lost a good lure today, but that's fishing. Tried to get the shark on video however batteries were dead as usual.

[thatallguy]

i have been going out a little deeper lately due to the hotter water and have been having pretty good success in 7-9 foot of water fishing the bottum. most the trout have been around 16-17 imches but have happened apon a few bigger ones every know and then. a few 2 small and u have to deal with sharks but limits havent been hard to fill in the deeper water for me lately