St. Andrews 05/05/06

Post by **Chalk** » May 5th, 2006, 6:40 pm

Slide the Ghostrider into St. Andrews bay around 0830 this morning...Wind was blowing a good clip...I ran out to one of my spots, making sure I didn't cross anything deeper than 3 foot, cause it was white capping in 4 foot

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Started fishing a bank trying to stay out of the wind...had a few strikes on topwater, caught a rat red on a spoon.....investigated a creek, ran over a nice slot red with the boat

...found a nice secluded bay that warrants further investigation on a flood tide....Spooked a doe, threw a cajun thunder at her, but she wasn't interested

Left the creek and started beating the bank again....had a catfish eat my mirrolure, after some surgery the mirrolure survived

..Ended up catching three more on the same mirrolure

Threw back out and caught a nice 19.5" red...threw it in the baitwell in hopes that I could replace it with a bigger one....Never happened, dodged a few thunderstorms, caught 3 more rat reds, caught a few trout, none keepers.

Despite the weather and wind, I had a blast, can't wait to do it again.

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Post by **Eerman** » May 5th, 2006, 6:44 pm

That place sounds sweet Chalk. Someday maybe the NFGFC should check it out. Around spring break maybe? We could turn JT51 loose in Panama City

. Too bad about the deer. Deer steak would probably be pretty tasty with redfish...kind of a redneck surf and turf

Post by **Chalk** » May 5th, 2006, 6:48 pm

Post by **birddog** » May 5th, 2006, 8:25 pm

Should've threw the spoon at the deer.

I know you were glad to be back on the water.

Looked at radar around 2:30 and saw a large red storm on top of the boat ramp you used. Wondered if you were still out there. Glad you made it back.

Post by **Chalk** » May 5th, 2006, 8:44 pm

Thanks for the weather update...That last cloud you told me about went south a little, so I figured I would run up north of the landing....100 yards later it was a down pour and lightening struck and clapped at the same time (yeah really close), didn't take me long to get back to the landing

Post by **tin can** » May 5th, 2006, 10:36 pm

Not a bad way to kill a Friday, even if the weather didn't cooperate.

BTW, you need a bigger net if you're gonna catch a doe.

Post by **Eerman** » May 5th, 2006, 11:12 pm

BTW, you need a bigger net if you're gonna catch a doe.

I don't use my net. I use a Boga Grip.

Post by **tin can** » May 6th, 2006, 5:17 am

Eerman wrote:
BTW, you need a bigger net if you're gonna catch a doe.
I don't use my net. I use a Boga Grip.

I wanna watch that.