St Joe Bay 08-25-2005

Post by **Old Dog** » August 27th, 2005, 12:42 pm

My cousin and I fished SJB Thursday. Very little wind, water was clear and tide was dropping out. We had to move around a bit to find fish but brought 38 to the boat. Nearly all were in the 14" range. To us it seemed that all the trout in the bay were the same size. No keepers. We used glo-DOA's under Cajun Thunders, and glo and rootbeer DOA's free-lined.

We saw an ominous sign motoring from the downtown ramp to the Black's Island area, a good many belly-up flounder??? Is there a red tide on the way?
od

Post by **birddog** » August 27th, 2005, 2:46 pm

Glad ya'll got out on the Bay. Chalk and I found those same 14" trout last weekend. I sure hope your wrong about the red tide. I feel like we were just recovering from the last outbreak of redtide in that area.

Post by **tin can** » August 27th, 2005, 6:17 pm

OD, if you keep moving to different places to fish, there ain't gonna be no trout for the rest of us.

14" seems to be the length everywhere. I caught about 40 today.

Post by **Chalk** » August 27th, 2005, 7:03 pm

The bigguns are out there...I saw some last weekend...According to the professional boat handler at Presnell's, we need live bait to catch the bigguns..

That's what he told me and birddog, then he said we were the high boat for the day...

Nice catch OD...think I might chase some short trout in St. Andrews tomorrow....

Post by **Old Dog** » August 28th, 2005, 1:19 pm

The 14 inch trout even followed us to the Chandeleur Islands last week. We fished 'em hard for two days over there and found nothing larger than 18 inches, mostly lots of 12-14 inchers.

Those islands got hammered by Ivan and Dennis, and I was saying (before Katrina), it was going to take a long time for the area to get back to the way it was, but after Katrina there may be no islands left.

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Post by **Sir reel** » August 29th, 2005, 9:16 am

Tincan wrote:

14" seems to be the length everywhere. I caught about 40 today.

Are you tell'n me you caught 40 short trout while you was catch'n 6 red fish... and WE were'nt even sure if either one of us got a 100% STRIKE!!....and didn't catch a FISH while we was red fish'n??? and.... you had the Club Master at catch'n short trout in the same boat with you......

Man!! there is just some'pun wrong with that picture

Post by **tin can** » August 29th, 2005, 10:15 am

Sir reel wrote: Are you tell'n me you caught 40 short trout while you was catch'n 6 red fish... and WE were'nt even sure if either one of us got a 100% STRIKE!!....and didn't catch a FISH while we was red fish'n??? and.... you had the Club Master at catch'n short trout in the same boat with you...... Man!! there is just some'pun wrong with that picture

Call me this evening and I'll give you all the details, and I'll share my theory on why the fish gods not liking you .