A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
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My good Buddy called earlier in the week and asked if I wanted to take Thursday off and shoot down to the coast. This didn't require much thinking over so that morning I headed south. we had a few regular set backs so we didn't put out of the drive way until 9:00 so my buddy, his wife and his sassy 4 year old little girl who of course has her very own custom rod along with myself finally got on the road. we stopped a few times along the way and splashed the boat in around 11:00. parking lot was nearly empty which was nice lol.
we headed down the river and then east a little ways. this was my first trip to the coast all year so my excitement was a tad higher than normal. I threw topwater for the first 20-30 minutes. I had a bunch of fish jump all over it but no takers. I put the topwater down and picked up a suspending twitch bait. first cast was a qualified keeper coming in a 21 inches. caught 4 more keepers pinging 15-17". my buddies Wife threw a popping cork with new penny (only thing she'll throw) but she alone probably caught 30-40 fish 95% being shorts, my buddy threw the same thing and caught just as many shorts if not more. I eventually threw a popping cork at the end which resulted in about 8-10 more shorts including a sailcat. I did manage to catch a small shark (maybe a spinner? ) on the twitch bait, that was fun for a few minutes. everything was safely and carefully released. The little one ran out of patience around 3:00 and we headed in for the day.
fished 4-6ft of water
bone colored Sammy topwater- lots of attention but 0 fish
popping cork with new penny (never tried another color) -60-70 shorts and 6 would've kept
chartreuse/white twitch bait- 10-11 shorts - 5 keepers
Hit-n-miss, water temp was 79.8 and I didn't look for any scallops
dombern34 wrote:My good Buddy called earlier in the week and asked if I wanted to take Thursday off and shoot down to the coast. This didn't require much thinking over so that morning I headed south. we had a few regular set backs so we didn't put out of the drive way until 9:00 so my buddy, his wife and his sassy 4 year old little girl who of course has her very own custom rod along with myself finally got on the road. we stopped a few times along the way and splashed the boat in around 11:00. parking lot was nearly empty which was nice lol.
we headed down the river and then east a little ways. this was my first trip to the coast all year so my excitement was a tad higher than normal. I threw topwater for the first 20-30 minutes. I had a bunch of fish jump all over it but no takers. I put the topwater down and picked up a suspending twitch bait. first cast was a qualified keeper coming in a 21 inches. caught 4 more keepers pinging 15-17". my buddies Wife threw a popping cork with new penny (only thing she'll throw) but she alone probably caught 30-40 fish 95% being shorts, my buddy threw the same thing and caught just as many shorts if not more. I eventually threw a popping cork at the end which resulted in about 8-10 more shorts including a sailcat. I did manage to catch a small shark (maybe a spinner? ) on the twitch bait, that was fun for a few minutes. everything was safely and carefully released. The little one ran out of patience around 3:00 and we headed in for the day.
fished 4-6ft of water
bone colored Sammy topwater- lots of attention but 0 fish
popping cork with new penny (never tried another color) -60-70 shorts and 6 would've kept
chartreuse/white twitch bait- 10-11 shorts - 5 keepers
Hit-n-miss, water temp was 79.8 and I didn't look for any scallops
along with myself finally got on the road. we stopped a few times along the way and splashed the boat in around 11:00. parking lot was nearly empty which was nice lol.
