St. Marks 10/22 Recording Memmories

[mjsigns]

After picking up some frozen shrimp at Jerry’s, meeting DP Plug and his crew, Travis and I put the Tin Can II in at the fort and headed toward the lighthouse. I had promised my son that we would go out in the boat again, and I was trying to keep my promise. Since I was in constant pain, I took along plenty of pain pills to make the trip tolerable. I also didn’t feel like going too far out and getting pounded by the waves.

This was Travis’s second time out fishing with me in the boat. I wanted him to have a good time and just catch something. The first stop was a spot across from Big Pass near the mouth of the river on the western flats. Four weeks ago I had taken my daughter to this spot and caught trout on every cast. It didn’t matter what color grub or jig was used. They weren’t picky. Well this time the fish just weren’t ready to bite, so we set a drift. The wind was blowing at 10mph out of the NE so we just drifted. When the trout decided to bite, we found most the trout in 3 feet of water at 77.5 – 77.7 degrees. We set up a drift of 1.5 miles, through about 2-300 crab traps, and ran it three times. I used a CT with a ¼ jig & chartreuse assassin tipped with shrimp. Travis insisted on just using the ¼ jig with candy corn and no CT. Travis hooked a 16â€

[Chalk]

WTG MJ

You need to pay attention to the orientation to the boat and how you have the motor turn when drifting. If the boat was pointed northeast and the engine turned to starboard....Cranking up and turned around and stopped with the bow pointing northwest and engine turned to starboard....this will result in a different drift.....But both ways are good..some days you need to stay on the same drift, other days criss crossing a productive area...You can do it with the boat direction and motor trimmed down turned in a direction (usually hard to starboard or port.)

[ALMAR]

MAN I KNOW THAT TRAVIS HAD A BALL. I TOOK ALL OF OUR CHILDREN FISHIN BY THE TIME THEY WERE 2, AND WE WERE FORTUNATE THAT ALL OF THEM CAUGHT A BUNCH OF FISH ON THE FIRST TRIP. THEY ALL STILL LOVE TO GO FISHING.
SEEMS TO ME I HAVE BEEN ON THAT BOAT YOU HAVE. DID YOU GET IT FROM TIN-CAN, I ASSUME THAT YOU DID SINCE YOU HAVE NAMED IT TIN-CAN 2 , THAT IS A NICE BOAT. GLAD YA HAD A NICE TRIP.
PA

[mjsigns]

Chalk- Thanks for the drifting advice~~~

Alamar-
You did take your kids out early.. I couldn't imagine taking a two
year old fishing on a boat.

I did get the boat from Tin-Can, but I didn't name it myself. I eventually would like to re-name the boat "Outreach", but have
not gone through the official boat re-naming procedures. I have
made many cosmetic/mechanical improvements since I assumed
ownership. It a great "project boat" and is fun for the whole
family.