St. Marks - 5/18

BBridgeJohn · Post by **BBridgeJohn** » June 18th, 2005, 9:41 pm

Waited till ~6:10am for the gate to open at the refuge entrance

and was heading out of the channel at 6:30. We stopped just East of hte lighthouse for some bait catching and to try the trout. At 7:45 we headed south towards the St. Marks Reef cluster and motored around an early bird until we found just the right spot. About 15min after arrival our pinfish was taken by a nice cobia. I estimate through the 15 minute fight and seeing him about four times near the boat that he was 25-30lbs..

I didn't have any balloons so I used a torpedo cork and that is where the line broke

. Never again. We made due with a full day of nice spanish and a couple of other species until the bite slowed after lunch. Here is the tally...

Keeper Trout - 2 - one on live shrimp one on Top dog
Short Trout - 5 all on live shrimp
Hardtails - a million
Skipjack - 1
Spanish - 22 keepers on top dog, Yozuri jerk, and most on live shrimp
Cobia - 1...oh wait a minute - 0

on a pinfish
Sharks - 1
Remora - 1

Randy and I trying to not look cool

Smaller Cobia from two weeks ago

Post by **Chalk** » June 19th, 2005, 6:25 am

Nice report and catch BBJ.....

Post by **birddog** » June 19th, 2005, 9:24 pm

WTG, BBJ

Post by **tin can** » June 20th, 2005, 6:02 am

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » June 20th, 2005, 7:01 am

Post by **Aucilla** » June 20th, 2005, 9:49 pm

Nice catch! How deep were you when you met the cobe? And all the spanish??

BBridgeJohn · Post by **BBridgeJohn** » June 23rd, 2005, 12:44 pm

Aucilla - The Cobia in the picture was caught at Peter's Rock...I believe he had been hiding under the boat for about 20 minutes before we got a good enough look at him to realize we should fish under there. The one we lost last Saturday was in 20ft at St. Marks Reef.