A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
Use this area to post inshore fishing reports from the area. Please try to include relevant information such as:
Location, date, time, water conditions, weather conditions, baits, techniques, species caught, etc.
I went out in the morning at o dark thirty from the St Marks Lighthouse. A big school of Jacks moved mullet across the flats and I was a able to pick up a few with top water plugs. I also picked up 2 21" trout on the flat before I moved on to the East River. I picked up two more Trout one 21 and one 20 then a puffer fish on a mirrorlure. After that I picked up a small trout and called it a day thinking it was low tide. I felt something rubbing the bottom of my yak and saw five manatees under the boat. I moved off and about ten minutes later the water erupted when something startled them. Pretty cool site.I came back at 17:00 and you could walk two hundred yards from the lighthouse on the bare beach. The water was extremely low. I pulled my yak out to the water and noticed that boats would not be able to get back to the boat ramp with the tide out so low. I didn't catch anything on the low tide.
Awesome pic of the manatees getting out of dodge. Haven't seen manatees moving that fast since I walked up on them breeding in the creek in the Steinhatchee Landing a couple of years back
HEY SUBER, BET YOU WERE GLAD THAT DID NOT HAPPEN WHILE THEY WERE UNDER THE YAK, SOMETIMES I GET THE BIGEEBEES SCARED OUT OF ME WHEN THE DOLPHINS START PLAYING CLOSE TO THE BOAT.
PA THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA
There is a fellow on the Wilderness Systems Pro-team that was on top of something like that in a land locked situation. He is scared to death that he will be the only person killed by a manatee.
