08/20/05 St. Joe Bay

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08/20/05 St. Joe Bay

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Picked up Birddog early this morning for a rendezvous with the mighty St. Joe bay...I had my mind made up that I was gonna find a mess of trout and was hoping there would be some good topwater action early.

We arrived at Presnell's and nobody was there (it was that early)..Eckley showed up at 6:30 and we were on our way in the dark....We head past Black's Island looking for a trout...

We started out with a light breeze and some good misses on topwater...Birddog missed something that he described as having a head as wide as his stomach :o ....I didn't see it, but wrote it off as a possible world record catfish :lol: ...

We ended up catching 8 keeper trout, biggest was 19" and about 50 short trout, some blue fish, ladyfish, even a lizardfish made it to the boat....We caught 4 redfish to 20"....

Weather was I guess typical for August, being unpredictable...Remember the lite breeze at dawn, it went from a breeze to almost a gale to almost dead at slack tide....It was dead still and hot about 1:00, we decided to move about 100 yards and by the time we stopped, the wind was blowing a gale and cold...

Caught fish on straight jigs, cajun thunders, topwater, spoons and spinners....most all were in 3-5 foot of spotty bottom....

The scalloper's were there in force as well....Nice day on the bay, Birddog thanks for tagging along.... :thumbup: :thumbup:
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Post by RodBow »

Sounds like a full and good day.
use your opportunities ...

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Very nice :thumbup: :thumbup:
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Post by birddog »

It was a great day, Chalk. Can't wait to do it again.
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