Keaton-it begins.

Post by **DixieReb** » March 3rd, 2006, 7:48 pm

Made it to Keaton today with Dad, started about 8:30 outside pole line. Greeted with 2-3 ft. rollers, guess NOAA was wrong again.

Anyway, first 2 fish in 6 ft. water were white trout, nice fat ones and in the box they went. Drifted closer in and got 4 nice speckled trout, one over 20''. Made another drift with wind shifting to northeast and only got 1 more keeper. It was slow the rest of the day, made it over to ward Doghead and got a nice flounder but no trout. Finished the long day over toward the pole line again in 5 ft. and got another keeper, several shorts. Then nothing

Seems like when we tried to move back on a drift, the drift would change and the bite stopped. Water was stained everywhere, temp started out about 65 deg. and warmed to 67.5 by 2 pm. Off the water at 3 pm, 6 specks, 2 white trout and 1 flounder. Not a bad first trip and boat ran great. Felt good to be on the water again!!

Post by **Redfish Jim** » March 3rd, 2006, 7:53 pm

Pretty good trip

Thanks for the report

Post by **Eerman** » March 3rd, 2006, 7:56 pm

Not too shabby DixieReb

Post by **Chalk** » March 3rd, 2006, 7:57 pm

Thanks for the report Dixiereb

....Was the water stained (tannic) at the doghead?

Post by **mjsigns** » March 3rd, 2006, 7:57 pm

WTG REB

Post by **DixieReb** » March 3rd, 2006, 8:47 pm

Chalk, the water at doghead was clearer than at keaton but still had sediment and visibility poor. I guess the wind stirred the bottom up?

Post by **rocket** » March 3rd, 2006, 9:40 pm

Post by **RodBow** » March 3rd, 2006, 9:43 pm

alright Georgia boy!

Post by **Reel Slow** » March 4th, 2006, 7:22 am

Nice pull on a tough day

Post by **tin can** » March 4th, 2006, 8:07 am

Turned a rough day into a good trip.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » March 4th, 2006, 9:05 pm

wtg

Post by **birddog** » March 5th, 2006, 8:00 am

Good job, DixieReb. I plan on getting down Keaton way soon, myself.