St. Joe Bay 05/13-14/05 NFGFC

Post by **Chalk** » May 15th, 2005, 8:22 am

Well after days of smack talk, bananas being prepared and sleepless nights, the highly anticipated days of fishing the St. Joe arrivesâ€¦

The game plan was set at myself arriving at 7:00 est and that would mean 6:00 my timeâ€¦I arrived at 5:45 my time and some how it was your late, where have you beenâ€¦I thought to myself, but didnâ€™t say, â€œthis marriage is great, but the foreplay needs some refinement.â€

Post by **tin can** » May 15th, 2005, 9:01 am

Chalk covered the story quite well. For those that have followed our saga, Chalk and I have struggled the last few tournaments. Yesterday, we had a limit in the box by 10:00. It was wonderful to finally relax, and have a good day of fishing.We improved on the weight of our limit throughout the day, and had a blast. The only negative occurance came about noon, when I learned, without question, Chalk needs singing lessons.

It was a good day with a good friend. I look forward to the next trip.

Post by **Tom Keels** » May 15th, 2005, 10:09 am

Sonny and I got to PSJ Friday about 7:45 and were on the water shortly after. I called TC on the radio and they indicated they hadn't done much.

We started just north of Presnells close to the spoil island. After a few short strikes on topwater I had a 5 lb spanish destroy my skitter walk. After a short battle he came loose at boatside. But since I hadn't planned on keeping fish it didn't matter.

We then ran over to a spot west of Black's Island where we always catch fish. Sonny and I won the first 2 tournaments at SJB and had a pretty good idea about where the fish were. Sure enough when we got there we started catching fish. Blues, trout, cobia, etc. We caught 4-5 trout all over 18 and one over 22. Put them all back for karmic reasons. What was neat was nearly every fish we saw came off the back of a ray. We saw 2 big cobia, 40+, but didn't get a chance at either. I caught one about 28" and lost another they may have barely kept. We put a bunch of blues in the boat most over 2 pounds. Redfins and CT/grubs caught the fish. The wind was light and we were able to sight fish very easily. We saw several more big trout in the area and were pretty confident we had a good spot picked out for Saturday.

We left there and went back close to presnells. We started fishing up behind the spoil island. As we work around a point I made a cast with the skitter walk and the water in a 50 foot circle boiled. I hooked up with one of the 50 reds in a school. I got Sonny to throw and he hooked up too.

We boated 2 23" reds and headed down to meet TC and Chalk at the Marina for lunch.

Chalk told you about the black cat incident. I have a theory about what happened. I can break it down in a formula I think...

TC + Chalk + Tournaments = Bad Luck or negative luck represented as TC+C+T = -L
Sonny + Tom + Tournament = Good Luck or positive luck represented as S+T+T1 = L

Black Cat on Friday the 13th has got to be a multiplier of bad luck X (-L).

So since we know a negative times a negative equals a positive, TC and Chalk's negative tournament luck turned positive and mine and Sonny's turned negative.

After lunch we returned to the hole where we caught the reds and they were still there. We caught 6 more in about an hour and called Chalk and TC over to help. I did have to borrow a spinner bait from TC since I had broken off the only 2 I had.

We fished till 4 and headed to casa de Chalk for a much needed shower and dinner.

Tournament day. WIND. We headed to our spot near blacks. 2 foot chop on the water and blowing the wrong way to set up a good drift. We fished hard for an hour when finally I put our big fish in the boat (3.5 lbs). We fished for another hour with no bites before we called it quits for that spot. We headed south to try to find some fish. We did but they were all small.

So I called TC on the radio for help. He told me they had a limit and to come on. We ran over and they showed us what to throw and where to drift.

We made 3 drifts with only one fish. All the while they are loading the boat with fish (although TC did catch quite a few catfish). I was a little frustrated so Sonny and I decided to see if the reds were still in our hole. They were, and we caught 5 in 30 minutes.

We ran back and TC and Chalk were still there, still catching. We pulled out the big guns and started throwing live pinfish. I put one more 19 incher in the box and missed 3 more, one that was a good one. After I ran out of live pins, I started throwing shiner tails. Missed 2 more fish and got cut off. That was it, We were done. We headed for the landing.

We heard stories of feast or famine. Seems folks were either on fish all day, or they couldn't buy bite. Luckily our 3 fish weighed 7.88 lbs and was good enough for 4 th place. Here are the pics of the stringers and the leaderboard.

Thanks to Chalk and Mrs. Chalk for letting us stay at their house and cooking such a fine meal. Thanks to TC for trying to lead a horse to water. Too bad you couldn't make him drink. Thanks to JT51 for another great tourney. And all the rest of the NFGFC members who participated. Thank you.

Post by **Chalk** » May 15th, 2005, 10:52 am

Tom Keels wrote: TC + Chalk + Tournaments = Bad Luck or negative luck represented as TC+C+T = -L
Sonny + Tom + Tournament = Good Luck or positive luck represented as S+T+T1 = L

You have to induce a negative to get a negative response, formula corrected...

-TC + Chalk + Tournaments = Bad Luck or negative luck represented as TC+C+T = -L
Sonny + Tom + Tournament = Good Luck or positive luck represented as S+T+T1 = L

Note SirReel's hand indicating the number of fish he caught...

Post by **rocket** » May 15th, 2005, 4:44 pm

Great reports guys. Sounds like everyone had a great time, and congratulations to all who placed.

Sure wish I could have been there!

Post by **tin can** » May 15th, 2005, 6:09 pm

Chalk wrote:You have to induce a negative to get a negative response, formula corrected...

-TC + Chalk + Tournaments = Bad Luck or negative luck represented as TC+C+T = -L
Sonny + Tom + Tournament = Good Luck or positive luck represented as S+T+T1 = L

Why is the - applied to me?

Post by **Chalk** » May 15th, 2005, 6:28 pm

tin can wrote:Why is the - applied to me?

Cause of your attempt at singing...

pennfish · Post by **pennfish** » May 15th, 2005, 7:22 pm

Kewl

Post by **tin can** » May 15th, 2005, 7:45 pm

Chalk wrote:
tin can wrote:Why is the - applied to me?
Cause of your attempt at singing...

It was no worse than your attempt at singing.

Post by **wevans** » May 15th, 2005, 7:58 pm

Ya'll are just having to danged much fun at this tourney thing

glad that ya'll had a good bite, I was worried about that wind affecting ya'll

another year or two and TC and Chalk may actually win one

Post by **tin can** » May 15th, 2005, 8:02 pm

wevans wrote:Ya'll are just having to danged much fun at this tourney thing :

Fun? FUN?

You should try trying to fish with some ding dong trying to sing in the back of your boat.

Post by **wevans** » May 15th, 2005, 8:08 pm

tin can wrote:You should try trying to fish with some ding dong trying to sing in the back of your boat.

I thought you always stayed in the front of your boat TC

Post by **tin can** » May 15th, 2005, 8:15 pm

I do!

Post by **Jumptrout51** » May 15th, 2005, 8:23 pm

Wind,Waves.? I didn't see no stinkin' wind or waves. All I saw was BIG TROUT. Black cats,? I didn't see no stinkin' black cats. All I saw was BIG TROUT. Redfish?I didn't see no stickin' redfish. All I saw was BIG TROUT.

Post by **Jumptrout51** » May 15th, 2005, 8:39 pm

Butch and I stayed over and fished today. We did even better than yesterday or friday. I'm too tired to reflect on it right now. Please stand by for the true report and all the details tomorrow.
Big T,Tincan,Chalk,Sonny,Sirreel,Wetjet and all the rest. You have until tomorrow to fess up or let the truth be known.