10/9/19 keaton

[Nopatients]

I swear I'm going to get better about timely fishing reports but better late than never, fished out of Keaton on the little boat (14' skiff) 1st 2 drifts went from 3'-8' of water those numbers are guesstimates as the boat doesn't have a depth finder yet caught more shorts that we could count and 3 keeper trout up to about 19" also 2 keeper bass, 2 small sharks, on the third drift we decided it would be our last so we ran all the way into about 2' of water and about 2 mins later hooked up with a cobia that turned out to be 30" but a great fight finished that drift off with a few more keeper trout and a ton of shorts, the water was clear but it was choppy with some white caps, we fished on a falling tide and the water continues to cool off I don't have exact temps. The grass had started to become somewhat avoidable as well. we fished mainly popping corks tried some spoons and jerk baits w/o success

In other news I think I'm going to move down that way I tried to get into the cedar island canal but that was SHAAALLLLLOOOWWWW on a 1'+ tide, I'm looking at a few other places all on the water if anyone has any recommendations or suggestions or lives down around that area I'd love to bring you a beer and pick your brain

[Hit-n-Miss]

Sounds like a good day. Thanks for posting a report.

[DixieReb]

Sounds like you were into the fish. We had a similar day out of Aucilla on Saturday, lots of shorts and 6 keepers to 19''. A depth finder will help you stay in the zone better, they seem to be hanging around 4-5 ft. for us. And wind has been a problem lately, mostly out of the east.

[fishinfool]

I am glad I got all the skunk off that skiff before you got it. I fished it for about two years without a depth/GPS unit. It made me pay attention to all my surroundings. I hope you and your son are enjoying it.

[Nopatients]

Man that thing is a fish producing machine I'm scared to even put a fishfinder on it at all I'm afraid itll mess up all the good luck