10/24 & 25 St. Marks

[tallykenj]

I was getting excited to see the water temps dropping, the tide times and preferable solunar index for last Thurs and Fri. Everything seemed to be lining up, including the weather. I decided to take a few days off from work and spend the time fishing. I started off on Thurs heading east into a headwind. The plan was to check some structure five miles offshore but the wind created too much of a chop. I abandoned my plan at the buoy line and decided to poke into the rock garden and set up a drift. The water was calmer and clear. My two buddies and I used shrimp, squid, mullet, pinfish and artificials. We had it all covered. Although we found a lot of pinfish, we couldn't find anything else. The pins were at every spot. Our depths ranged from 4' to 6'. We observed a few other boats moving around trying to find some fish and it seemed we shared the same frustration.

As the wind died down, we decided to head south to some structure. Not the same as the initial plan but I was sure it would produce some black bass for my two friends. Sure enough, those little guys were home and attaching non-stop. Too bad none were over 10". We ran back to the east flats and tried for trout again. No luck. Before heading in, we fished a shoal and managed to find a flounder that was lost as it approached the boat. At around high tide, close to 3:00, we decided to call it a day.

I was determined not to give up and returned alone Friday. The tide was low in the morning so I decided to poke around some oyster bars in the river as I headed south. I tried about five or six different bars and didn't have any luck. I was hoping to find a red. As the tide moved in, I decided to work the shoreline on the way to a creek mouth that has produced flounder and reds in the past. No luck there either. As I was at the mouth, I figured I'd ride the current up the creek for recon mission. It sure was pretty up there. I had never been so far up in the creek before. I saw mullet swimming everywhere; none were jumping. I found a nice pocket where I was able to get the iPilot to hold a spot without being effected by the strong incoming current. The weather and the area were gorgeous. Again, however, no fish. Crazy, I thought. Where in the hell are the fish? I gave up on the creek and left before the tide pulled too much water out. Before calling it a day, I spent some time in 2' - 3' and found some 12"- 14" trout. I was happy to bring a few onboard (and throw them back).

O'well. Any day (especially two in a row) on the water is a good day. I sure do love getting on the water; fish or no fish. I know times are a changing and the fish will soon arrive. I can't wait!

[Blue spinner]

thanks for the report
i know about the hard fishing last week fish all day
i got out on Thursday afternoon and got 2 keeper trout and 2 flounder

[kenfly]

Good report!, yeah I have no idea where the fish are


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[Bigdog]

We fished Keaton Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning 5 people 10 trout, 2 flounder, 2 black bass and 2 reds. It was hard fishing most caught on live shrimp. Where are the fall fish?????

[milto]

Nice report and photos!! Well, we went out Thursday and Saturday (fished the Seatrout Shooutout) and we found most of our fish hunkered down in deep spots of creeks. We threw suspending lures and jigs at em. Thursday we brought home 3 reds, 3 flounder, and 2 fat trout. Saturday we caught around 12 trout, 2 of them being over slot which we threw back since we didn't enter the side pot for big trout. But all of the other trout we caught were over 17 and all fat!! I think with this 50 degree weather at night made us somewhat skip that fall topwater bite. Not that it won't come still with a couple days of warm water but with the water staring at 64 degrees they didn't want much to do with it.

[tallykenj]

Nice job, Milto!


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