After a quick stop to Wilsons, we were in the canal with beautiful weather to greet us
After a quick run just south of spring warrior we started our first drift and 3 shorts came in quick succession in 3.5 ft
Now these three shorts were all fun and games because they were close to being keepers so I was feeling froggy, then disaster struck, my fairly new Edge rod snapped in half on the cast
Following that tragedy we moved out to 6ft of water and started drifting from Spring Warrior, during which my partner was catching some fish and the bite had cooled for me, so a quick switch to the trusty trout trick and a push from the wind to 5 ft of water had me back in business, unfortunately my business was pufferfish, so I switched colors from margarita lime chicken to iguana daiquiri and bam...a nice 17in keeper. Now my partner had three keepers by now and I was only up to one, so that had to change. I switched to my brokeback corky and proceeded to catch a trout no larger than the plug, unfortunately I was laughing so hard I couldn't take a picture but I kept the faith. The next cast proved to be quite sporty....I proceeded to make a perfect cast and twitched the bait twice....BAM...a gator trout slams itand I can see this fish and this fish would be the biggest trout I've ever caught....except it was only hooked in the side of the head and as soon as it figured out it was hooked it took off and slung the plug. Instead of fussing, I didn't give up and worked the plug back to the boat and BAM... another biggun slapped it and this one was hooked good...
So there was our one over 19, a solid 21in fish and then I proceeded to reel em in right and left, next cast was a solid fish pulling drag but I knew it wasnt a trout it was trash
Fun none the less, next cast was a hard hit and another bite I knew wasn't a trout but I had hoped was a spanish, but it was a rather large hardhead cat that decided it wanted a corky for lunch. But then I waded through the trashfish and found the trout again... solid trout. I did not catch the numbers I expected to on this trip but the fish were consistently solid, I caught two 18inchers back to back and then proceeded to catch another that was 17in. My partner was reeling them in himself and while he never caught anything over 18, he caught a good bit more numbers wise on his new penny gulp shrimp. Its always a good trip when you have the confidence to throw 15in keeper trout back and wait for something better in the slot. Well this lasted from 1:30 to 2:30 and by this time we had drifted from spring warrior to little spring creek and we had a limit of trout, so we decided to fish for reds near spring warrior with no luck which I wont complain about at all and we called it a day.
A solid mess of fish to clean and it looks like the big trout actually had just eaten a baby bluefish.
As a bonus I also managed to sneak away for a few hours to blackshear and catch everything but what we were after, but no complaints from me at all, a boat is a good place to take the phonecall to let you know you have a job interview on Monday.
I definitely am torn now, we were planning to get together as a group and take two boats down in early April....but now I'm torn whether to go back to Keaton or fish Steinhatchee as we had planned. For sure the fish preffered 4-5 ft with deeper water and shallower water being far less productive and colors with fleck like new penny were best under the corks, the plug color I don't remember but I think its time to retire this one.
missed the interview part good luck. 
