St. Andrews 04/23/06

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St. Andrews 04/23/06

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My wife gave me til high noon to wet my line, lost track of time got to the landing at 12:45 :wink: :lol:

Slide the Ghostrider into the St. Andrews, wondering where to fish, there was a negative tide at 6:30, so the water was coming in but it was still low....

I knew of a bowl near one of my redfishing spots, got near it and that was about it, water to low...Decide to just fish out towards deeper water and see if I could find a trout......got to about 3 foot and had three trout chasing the spoon back to the boat....I had decided to try another bait in my arsenal (Reel Slow - Keaton Special :wink: )...Using the trolling motor to keep me in that depth or shallower, I started getting a few hits, first fish got off, second fish didn't, nice 20" trout.

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Keep doing the same thing, working towards where me and dad had gotten into the big reds Friday.....Another boat showed up and started fishing where I wanted to start on an outside point :smt013

Started picking up some good trout, had a few hit and misses...Threw out there and saw the hit and saw the amount of side to side shaking and white and said to myself, there she is....Fought her to the boat three times before I could get the net around her, nice 24" trout, released to fight again another day, as well as the other 15 or so trout I caught....

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Back to my competition in the area...we are more or less racing to the mouth of this creek with the trolling motor, I could of probably picked up some more trout, but he was showing some aggression with the trolling motor and I was gonna beat him...well, I caught another trout and he got ahead of me..I figured he would fish his side of the creek and let me have the east side, nope he crossed over to cut me off :smt066

I say he can't fish both sides and cross in behind him and took the west bank....picked up the skitterwalk...twitch, twitch, bam....22" red in the boat, they didn't catch nothing and left :-D

It was getting late and I wanted to try some new areas....Stopped at two spots and picked up another little red.

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Another great day on the mighty Gulf of Mexico, nothing broke, caught some fish, can't wait to do it again.... 8) :thumbup:
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Post by Eerman »

Nice! :thumbup: The sky looks way to blue. Shoulda went yesterday. Lightning always perks things up a bit. :wink:
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HI CHALK, LOOKS LIKE YA KNOW WHERE TO FIND THEM BIG TRUT, I ALWAYS HATE WHEN SOME ONE TRIES TO CUT ACROSS MY DRIFT, IF THEY STOP IN FRONT OF ME , IF I CATCH UP WITH THEM I JUST LET THE BOAT POP UM AND ACT LIKE I NEVER SAW THEM, THEY GENERALLY LEAVE WHEN THIS HAPPENS.
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WTG Chalk! Got to luv the quicky on a Sunday morning :-D !
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Good job, Chalk. Catching more fish is the best way to handle a jackazz on the water. :thumbup:
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Post by noleflyfisher »

birddog wrote:Good job, Chalk. Catching more fish is the best way to handle a jackazz on the water. :thumbup:
Amen to that. You're getting scary over at St. Andrews. :thumbup:
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Post by Eerman »

You know, looking a the pictures Chalk, if you had your pink shirt you wouldn't have had that guy cutting you off like that. Maybe we could start a new sport, trolling motor racing.
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nice! :thumbup:
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Post by Sir reel »

Good job Chalk :thumbup: I agree with Eerman... light'n sure adds to the level of tournament grade fish'n :o
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