1/13, St. Marks

Post by **Reel Fun** » January 15th, 2007, 10:07 am

Went SE to 20-25ft. 9:30am, 2-3 ft'rs from the E-SE. Trolled for a while, no luck, the floating weeds were pretty thick. Went S-SW to 30-35ft, around the bouy 24 area, trolled for a good while, only picked up a Bonita. Must have been 6-8 boats in the area. Bottom fished in 32 ft, picked up 11 sea bass, must have thrown back 50 small ones. Maybe they're deeper ? At 2pm we make a run to 50ft, SW. Oar2 area. Trolled, drifted live bait, sqiud, ect....nodda a darn bite. Saw some guys getting their dive stuff on, I wonder what they found ??? Headed to the hill 3:30pm, with slick seas. I hate to post such a pitiful report....but you godda take the good with the bad....Oh well, it was a wonderful day on the water...

Post by **birddog** » January 15th, 2007, 10:15 am

yep. Gotta take the good with the bad. However, sometimes just being out there going through the motions is enough. Thanks for posting.

January 15th, 2007, 10:16 am

If the divers were in a big Sea Ray 38' or so, they did pretty well. I just saw the pictures.

Post by **Reel Fun** » January 15th, 2007, 10:42 am

No...they were in a 20-22ft Sea Cat, in 50-55ft of water.

Post by **SHOWBOAT** » January 15th, 2007, 11:16 am

Nice try RF. I did some trolling between 30-40' in those same areas Sat. We managed 2 @ 24 and one short. Then I had nice fish take my red-head stretch. That was the end of the grouper for the day. Couldn't buy a bite on any of the other stretches we had.

January 15th, 2007, 11:40 am

10-4, guess that wasn't them.

The grouper were tough to find yesterday as well. We didn't catch a keeper until 1:30, but managed a limit by 5pm. Stink bait wasn't doing it for us, and trolling only produced a flounder.

It turned out that live mullet we caught in the castnet were the bait of grouper choice. 60ft = keepers, anything less = shorts.

Post by **Reel Fun** » January 15th, 2007, 12:33 pm

Yea, I made a special trip to West Marine for a Red/white plug and they were OUT.........I'm glad to hear you guys at least got a few, WTG....I would have(should have) started deeper, but the 2-4 ft seas "forcast" kept me in closer. Where I was the seas only got better all day.....

Post by **qoutrage** » January 16th, 2007, 10:31 am

Seems to me, knowing where they ain't bitin' is good, too- So still a good report. Sorry the trip didn't produce.

Heck, now ya just gotta go again, dern it.

Post by **tin can** » January 16th, 2007, 1:13 pm

Yep, ya gotta take the bad with the good. I've had a few of those bad days lately.

Qoutrage, I have a file full of numbers where they ain't, if ya want um.