St. Marks Madness!!! 9/18

[Koenig]

Left the light house around 8:30 Sunday morning. Low tide was around 9:00am and High tide was around 3:30pm. Headed to the garden first, no luck there. We headed south for deeper water and began a drift. We had a guy with us that had never been saltwater fishing before. Needless to say he was HOOKED! During our drift we noticed birds diving and thrashing water not far away so we boogied on over and with Catch 2000's, Gold and Silver spoons and Gotcha lures began to slay the mess out of the Blues, Lady fish, hard tales??? (i think) and THE SPANISH!!! BIG SPANISH!! As you looked around the boat you could see clumps of thrashing water with Spanish and others jumping. I am terrible at gaging yardage but it must have been at least an area of about 3 to 4 football fields. I had never seen anything like that before. They were every where! We boated a fish with every cast! We were getting cut off quite often as well. Sometime four feet from the lure. ??? I'm gonna have to re-stock my tackle. The action went on from about 10am to 2:30pm when we had to peel ourselves away. It's so hard to leave when the fish are biting. Ended up only keeping 20 Spanish (threw back a ton), and 2 Big Trout. I think we have made a believer of our saltwater greenhorn! Oh water depth.... ummm maybe around 6 feet or so. Beautiful day!

[Reel Slow]

Sounds like a ton of fun! I saw the water churnng and birds diving on my way E. to the Rock Garden. Thought about stopping but we were on a red mission!

The poor guy you hooked will be out thousands before his head stops spinning

[tin can]

Another one hooked.

Good job.

[Chalk]

Good job....

[birddog]

WTG

[noleflyfisher]

Sounds like a hoot. Congrats.

[DixieReb]

WTG!! We found a school of Spanish and little tunas out in front of the rock garden several years ago, but they didn't stay around as long as yours did. Sounds like a fun day.

[mjsigns]

Those ocassions are quite rare... God to hear about the action...

[FUTCHCAIRO]

SOUNDS LIKE YA HAD A BALL. WE WENT TO ST MARKS THIS MORNING AND THE WIND WAS KICKING UP TO ABOUT 20 KNOTS. WE FISHED 5 HRS. BOATED I BLUE ABOUT 4#, CAUGHT A SEA TURTLE, 6 SHORT TROUT, SEVERAL SHARKS, PINS, CATS, AND LADY FISH. WATER TEMP 84.7 HARD DAY ON THE WATER.
PA

[Hit-n-Miss]

Cut off four foot up the line? You weren't using chrome swiveles were you?

[Koenig]

Nope! No chrome swiveles. I was using Power Pro braded line. 30 lbs test. Just tied straight on to the lures. Got two of my lures back though!!! I guess they spit'em. I wish I knew what those other little fighters were. They looked like a Jack, but I don't think they were the right color. They fought as hard as the Spanish! Maybe FWCC has them on their Fish ID web site.

[squiffy]

What a great experience. Makes me wonder if this is how the fishing was 100 years ago.