St. Marks 1/16

[ugadawg]

The last time I went to St. Marks (before the new year) the water was too warm for the fish to be in the river. After this cold snap and watching the FSU Marine Lab temperatures drop, I was excited to get back down and try it again. Me and my wife headed down for the day and it definitely did not disappoint.

Stopped by Shields for some shrimp and was on the water around 11:30. Headed to my hole and caught a short trout on my first cast. A couple casts later and I had my first keeper in the boat. By 2:30 we had our 10 trout limit in the cooler. Most of the trout we caught were 17'' - 19". We stayed for a while longer and caught and released many more keeper trout. We could have easily filled a 3 or 4 man limit today. We got off the water at 4:00 to get back in time to cook dinner.

Warm shorts weather, time with the wifey, and a quality limit of fish; what more can you ask for?

[Red Dawg]

Nice.

[kenfly]

Awesome headed out there today with 3 boys, you mind me asking around where did you find fish, up River?

[ugadawg]

Up the river. Watch your sonar and look for deep holes that have fish on them.

[Redbelly]

Alright!! Finally! I know yall had fun......, when's the fish fry? Been craving some fresh trout

[kenfly]

Thanks I'll post how we do

[silverking]

[quote="ugadawg"]After this cold snap and watching the FSU Marine Lab temperatures drop, I was excited to get back down and try it again. Me and my wife headed down for the day and it definitely did not disappoint.

Nice day on the water. Glad to hear the trout haven't been pushed offshore by the rains.

Take the FSU Marine Lab temp readings with a grain of sea salt, however. Think they've got that thermometer sticking in black mud off the end of the dock. Lab is showing 67 degrees this morning and the best I found yesterday afternoon east of the Lighthouse was 61. Last week they were still displaying temps in the mid-60s when I was reading 53 degrees within a half mile of the lab. Haven't had a chance to compare units side by side with someone else, but my readings are coming off my brand new Garmin transducer and Wunderground was showing similar within a degree or two at Apalachicola.

[DixieReb]

Sounds like a great day with the wife. I hope to get back there sometime next week.

[randymullaly]

Im making a run out there in the morning and Ill let everybody know how it goes.

[kenfly]

Well we made it out around 1030 and fished till maybe 1ish and got 3 keepers, best bet was jigs or lure worked slow, shrimp didn't do much. Caught fish above the power plant, but were scattered, hit or miss. Think you needed to keep working up and down the river, hard to do in the pontoon especially with 3 boys in board, but had a great time out on the water. My buddy's son got his first trout on his 4th bday

[ugadawg]

The cooler weather may have locked them up. We sat on one hole and caught all our fish there on Saturday.

[2true]

Nice@!