Econfina 5/16

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Econfina 5/16

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Well, boys it was a battle to say the least. We arrived about 6:30 or so got out of the mouth and headed out a lil :roll: west in about 4-5 ft of water. Small squall line and a funnel cloud, which sure is pretty in the sunrise :o . Made a few drifts caught one or two keepers and some shorts. Started working our way over to were SU had said he had caught some fish the day before. Caught trout all the way up to the Econfina river. Ended up going over toward the ROCK ( :lol: ) in deeper water, nothing but some cracked nuggets :oops: and wet a Chalk, TroutFisher and "Getthenet" :lol:Michael. Knew the feed was on around noon so we headed back to where we had started and fishing through shorts and catching a keeper here and there. Never really got into big trout, tried on out nothing, 4-6 ft was the what was working. Fish seemed to be scattered on the flats.

Ended up with 15 keepers, probably caught 50 plus trout all together mostly shorts. PT200 SWA, staight and CT. two rock bass, one spanish.

Trout fisher had some mystery fish that almost spooled him. He lost one trout that would have eaten yours CSMarine :o :D .

All in all.
Trout Fisher caught most of the keeper meat :thumbup:
I was the the short king :oops: , but the rock bass king (2) :D
Michael was the catfish king :lol:

The man came for some fellowship :-? , saw the helicopter again.. he was no help though :wink: .

We showed in the dark and left in the dark, we threw everything in the tackle box, but we had a good time (at least I did :P ) a limit of fish, some sore arms, great memories and some spectacular fishing fellowship.
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Post by Sea Fox »

Chalk, Im alittle disapointed in you letting TF outfish you but if someone was going to Im glad it was him :lol: . Keep your chin up you will get him next time :cry:
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Post by Sir reel »

Chalk you get the award for stick'n toit. :D

My son and I put in at the Econ about 9:30 on Friday as well. We had pretty much the same results. However, your dancing worked for us, it rained on us driving up to the ramp and that was all the weather we had except for the wind and waves. You used the term "battle" and I can't think of a better way to describe the effort it took to get any bite to work. :hammer: We started out just South of the first platform and drifted in a couple of times. The first keeper dropped off my son's jig right into the net that Dad had under neath of it. While we were congratulating each other, the fish jumped and found a hole in the net and took off. We decided to change locations and motored over just off the Aucilla (where Dad did some dipnet repair with 14lb mono). We were fishing deeper than what you were 7-9ft. The fish and the bite seem to be scattered, we would maybe have 2 or 3 good strikes on casts in a row and we'd think maybe the bite was getting ready to kick in but then nothing for the next 30 to 45 min. We drifted at that location for a while moved once more further West again and then towards the end of the day 6:30 or so we went back to the first platform and started drifting in towards the tripod. The final score was several shorts, 7 keepers (2 over 19"), 1 rocky, 3 catfish, 2 sharks, 1little gag grouper about 12" beautiful markings , grubs with the tails bit off laying all over the bottom of the boat in every color we had, :o and sore legs from fighting the rough water all day. We tried fishing with CT's with short leaders, long leaders, no CT's at all and dragging live pinfish. After fishing St Marks the past two weekends I can say that the water around the Econ remains considerablly more stained. The fish are much darker than the ones I caught around St Marks and at least on Friday for us... much more acrobatic. Man were they ever jumpers! and lots of pinfish.
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Post by CSMarine »

Chalk, SR ya'll did good concidering the conditions. Trout sure acting funny this spring ain't they? :roll: I've found them in the same kind of water long enough to get four limits in the last few weeks . Hope they stay till next Friday.
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Post by southernundertaker »

S/U here, sounds like you guys had a rough go at it. working hard for fish though is still a lot more fun than just plain ole hard work!!! :roll: it sounds like the big difference was the weather change from wednesday to friday. Wednesday was almost smooth as glass.

Glad everyone had a safe trip.
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