GPS #'s

BKTomblin Jr · Post by **BKTomblin Jr** » May 1st, 2005, 6:35 pm

IRT last Fri/Let me begin w/ a sorry to "Hit-n-miss"

my fault, I just got oftrack.
Could I please get some GPS #'s for "rock-garden" I know its East of the lighthouse.
Me and my "lower end" thank you

finniefish · Post by **finniefish** » May 1st, 2005, 8:46 pm

Not giving you mine, but here is the basics:
http://www.jerrysbait.com/localmap.htm

BKTomblin Jr · Post by **BKTomblin Jr** » May 1st, 2005, 10:24 pm

Thanks, thats all I needed.

Post by **mjsigns** » May 1st, 2005, 10:54 pm

Check your PM's-

Sent you a few # to watch out for...

Hit-n-Miss · Post by **Hit-n-Miss** » May 2nd, 2005, 7:08 am

Mako. It's not that big a deal, but I would have liked to have gotten more responces. Just trying to maximize everyones time on the water. A lot of us can't go enough to pattern the fish ourselves. I always post how I did, good or bad, to help out.

I'd gladly give you #'s for that area but I mostly fish Ecofina so I don't know.

Hit-n-Miss · Post by **Hit-n-Miss** » May 2nd, 2005, 7:13 am

Finniefish, of those what is actually considered the "rock garden"?

I don't know either.

Post by **Tom Keels** » May 2nd, 2005, 7:21 am

Hit-n-Miss wrote: Finniefish, of those what is actually considered the "rock garden"? I don't know either.

Folks. The rock garden is a huge area and one GPS number cannot encompass it all. I've anwered this in several other posts but I'll do it again.

BLACK ROCK N30 03.980 W84 07.100
GRAY MARE ROCK N30 04.751 W84 05.375
STONEY BAYOU N30 04.944 W84 07.957

These 3 numbers make a triangle that contains the "Rock Garden".

You can add this number to make the area a little bigger.

DEATHROCK BAD ROCK N30 03.916 W84 07.372

According to mapsourse this area is 1.4 Square miles. Also this is not a rock fence where all the rocks are kept in it. There are lots of rocks outside the rock garden as well. More in fact out of it than in it.

When a rock garden or grey mare is given in a report, most folks use it as a reference point to give you an idea of where they were.

finniefish · Post by **finniefish** » May 2nd, 2005, 9:07 am

You can spot gray mare because part actually sticks out of the water. To get up to it at low tide you need a skinny boat, it gets about 2 ft or less. Another feature in that area are the bomb craters, my understanding is that area was used as a bombing test area back in WWII. Cruising through the area I have come across a few craters that drop to 7 or 8 feet and are 50 to 100 yards around and have been productive at the edges. It's a produtive area just take your time, I have spent a few days just putting around trying to find and mark structure.

BKTomblin Jr · Post by **BKTomblin Jr** » May 2nd, 2005, 10:56 pm

To: Tom Keels, finniefish, Hit-n-miss & mjsigns
Thank you for all of yall's help......now if I can just learn that GPS thing !!!! I'm learning, I'm learning

Post by **Sir reel** » May 3rd, 2005, 8:56 am

Good morning Mako. I had intended to reply earlier but got off on to some other stuff. What I had meant to suggest was for you to go to the area charts on "Jerry's Bait and Tackle" web site. If you check it out, one of the pic's has a box drawn on it. THAT GENERALLY represents what most folks refer to as the "Rock Garden". As others have indicated it's not just one GPS location. Nor can you rely on the drawn box as the boundary for exercising "due care".

Nobody is trying to play games with you or resist sharing information that can or should be shared. Here is the pic I referred to and some of the "'s (from Jerry's site)

5: Stony Bayou (Entrance) 30 03.980 N â€¢ 84 07.100 W
6: Black Rock 30 03.980 N â€¢ 84 07.100W
7: Grey Mare 30 04.751 N â€¢ 84 05.375 W
8: Cobb Rocks 30 04.758 N â€¢ 84 02.574 W
9: Peter's Rock 30 03.223 N â€¢ 84 04.029 W

Good luck

Post by **tin can** » May 3rd, 2005, 9:34 pm

I marked 2 more rock piles in the rock garden today.

FindingNemo · Post by **FindingNemo** » May 6th, 2005, 9:17 pm

Wow....bomb craters....I thought my transducer was fouled....I have come across several holes near the rock garden that seemed way out of place.....think the reds might hold out in those come winter?

Post by **Jumptrout51** » May 6th, 2005, 9:54 pm

NO. Don't try to fish them you will be wasteing your time.

Post by **Charles** » May 7th, 2005, 3:26 am

To me, the Rock Garden extends from east of the light house, to further than I have been past the Aucilla River. Just remember Aucilla is an old Seminole word that means, "need new lower unit." A great place to fish, very productive area. I predict it will be especially hot this summer.

FROM JULY ON THERE WILL BE NO FISH AT ALL BETWEEN THE WAKULLA RIVER MOUTH AND THE OCHLOCKONEE RIVER MOUTH, ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF LIVE OAK ISLAND.