East River

[guthooked]

Looking for a little advice. I have been fishing St Marks for a few years now and feel comfortable around the East and West flats but I want to venture into the East river area in search of reds. Could anyone offer any advice for this area? Do I need to worry about getting stranded up a creek when the tide goes out or is the area generally deep enough to be able to troll out of at low tide? I've heard the redfishing is pretty good in the area if you are willing to challenge all of the bars.
Thanks

[Rainman]

What size boat you got? Aluminum or fiberglass. I take my 14 ft jon boat all over that place, my bay boat I only go as far as the fist big bend and I do not go into any creeks...

[silverking]

If you stay in the channel (which is crooked as a politician), you'll be OK during all but the extreme winter low tides. Until you learn it, go on an incoming and don't stay too long before you vamoose. There are plenty of oyster bars for habitat and some deeper holes. Besides reds, good trout and flounder call East River home at times.

[guthooked]

Thanks for the advice. I've got a 21 foot Kenner so I would have to move around pretty slow. I have a Navionics chip for the area that shows a few holes and the bars but I don't know how accurate it is. It has proven to be fairly accurate on the flats but as you can imagine it better be almost dead on around all the boat busters up there.

[woopty]

Check out the sat pics on google maps, you can see the oyster bars in the east river.
if you have it on your smartphone, you can navigate around them.