St Marks, 3/6/06

Post by **T Smith** » March 7th, 2006, 5:13 pm

Not much to report, just wanted to get away and do some exploring,

put in at the lighthouse and headed up east river messed around in there for a while but barely made any casts, the wind was really pushing the boat around and it was hard to manuever around the oyster bars,

headed over to stoney bayou and found the same result,

decided to hit the shallow flats and on my first cast hooked a short trout, after that not a bite, I really needed a drift sock that day the wind was pushing the boat so fast I couldn't keep the shrimp on the bottom, or pop the cork, it was all I could do to keep the slack out of the line.

hindsight I should'a beached the boat against the marsh in east river dropped some shrimp out the back and had a nap in the sun,

I think that one little trout felt sorry for me,

water temp 59 at start 61 by midday, it's getting closer,

glad to hear someone else caught some fish

catchin1 · Post by **catchin1** » March 7th, 2006, 5:20 pm

Its hard to do want you want fighting the wind. I'm sure it was still better than working.

Post by **Chalk** » March 7th, 2006, 6:49 pm

I wouldn't figure that boat would have much windage.....I had my drift sock out Friday and was still drifting at .6 mph

Beat working....Stay after them....

Post by **birddog** » March 7th, 2006, 6:54 pm

Other than the wind, it was a nice day to be out.

Post by **T Smith** » March 8th, 2006, 12:37 pm

Chalk, I am a little disapointed in the windage the plans said the boat has little windage and when compared to a high gunnel offshore boat i'm sure it does, but it seems to be about the same as every low gunnel bay or flats boat that I've been in. I think its due to the bow being up and out of the water I may have too much weight in the back. I haven't bought a drift sock yet and forgot to grab a couple of buckets that morning.

Birddog, was that you in one of those White X-Cab Chevy's , I saw two parked at the ramp with BBF.net stickers?

Post by **Jumptrout51** » March 8th, 2006, 5:10 pm

I keep tellin' you guys. Your pants make a nice drift sock.

Post by **Redfish Jim** » March 8th, 2006, 8:56 pm

Jumptrout51 wrote:I keep tellin' you guys. Your pants make a nice drift sock.

Ain't they decency laws about that kind of stuff?

Post by **T Smith** » March 8th, 2006, 9:48 pm

Hey, I actually thought about that, I wore shorts under my jeans hoping to get some sun when it warmed up. But with the wind kicking like it was it was a little nippy for shorts.

I remembered back as a scout for the swimming merit badge we had to jump in fully clothed over our swim trunks, take off the jeans, tie the legs, blow them up and make a lifjacket. I wonder how they would work as a drift sock.

Post by **rocket** » March 8th, 2006, 9:51 pm

Beautiful day despite the wind, and fish not cooperating!
Better luck next time