St Marks 7/22/06
Posted: July 23rd, 2006, 7:13 pm
Took a younger friend and his buddy out yesterday.
Left the light house and headed for a creek. We were greeted by a 8' gator hanging around the creek mouth and a pod of six dolphins tearing up some mullet. Found reds scattered all over the place. But let me tell you I'm gonna have to make a trip all by my lonesome one early mornin. Its hard to avoid spookin the fish when as soon as the water moves three lures go flying in that direction. One of the first times we found a school I cast a mini spook and went to walking the dog. I got a pretty big hit that sent the plug flying out of the water. As soon as that happened both of my co compadres sent two spinner baits flying in that direction and when they hit the water boy reds when scooting in all directions. Thats a beautufull sight when you see the water rise up like a torpedo or sub is about to surface. Anyways one of the boys hooked a red under the jaw beneath the mouth, I'm still not sure if the fish was actually going for the bait or if it just ran into it during the mad scrammble. So we got it to the boat and it measured 28". I had a couple more hits but it was hard to stay on the fish with so many baits hitting the water and after that first fish those boys were chunkin like crazy.
Started to get hot around 9:30 so we headed out to the flats hoping for some breeze. Fished 4-14 feet of water. Caught 5 trout from 11:00 - 12:30 in 11-14 feet of water.
Also managed a small bluefish while trolling for spanish. There was bait everywhere and spanish sky rocketing every so often, but we never hooked into one.
Total for the day:
5 Trout , 4 keepers 17-19"
1 red 28"
1 10" bluefish
A weeks worth of sun and heat, it was calm and blazing hot.
Overall it was a better trip than I was expecting being that I haden't been out since may. I didn't get much practice fshing the dog days the last two summers with all the Hurricanes.
I'm just glad we found some fish and they had a good time. They mostly bass fish and after the redfish fiasco, the only thing they talked about was whether or not they would brave it and take a gheenoe out on the flats.
Chris's Red
Two of Buddy's Keepers
My Keeper the smallest of the four
The day's plunder
Left the light house and headed for a creek. We were greeted by a 8' gator hanging around the creek mouth and a pod of six dolphins tearing up some mullet. Found reds scattered all over the place. But let me tell you I'm gonna have to make a trip all by my lonesome one early mornin. Its hard to avoid spookin the fish when as soon as the water moves three lures go flying in that direction. One of the first times we found a school I cast a mini spook and went to walking the dog. I got a pretty big hit that sent the plug flying out of the water. As soon as that happened both of my co compadres sent two spinner baits flying in that direction and when they hit the water boy reds when scooting in all directions. Thats a beautufull sight when you see the water rise up like a torpedo or sub is about to surface. Anyways one of the boys hooked a red under the jaw beneath the mouth, I'm still not sure if the fish was actually going for the bait or if it just ran into it during the mad scrammble. So we got it to the boat and it measured 28". I had a couple more hits but it was hard to stay on the fish with so many baits hitting the water and after that first fish those boys were chunkin like crazy.
Started to get hot around 9:30 so we headed out to the flats hoping for some breeze. Fished 4-14 feet of water. Caught 5 trout from 11:00 - 12:30 in 11-14 feet of water.
Also managed a small bluefish while trolling for spanish. There was bait everywhere and spanish sky rocketing every so often, but we never hooked into one.
Total for the day:
5 Trout , 4 keepers 17-19"
1 red 28"
1 10" bluefish
A weeks worth of sun and heat, it was calm and blazing hot.
Overall it was a better trip than I was expecting being that I haden't been out since may. I didn't get much practice fshing the dog days the last two summers with all the Hurricanes.
I'm just glad we found some fish and they had a good time. They mostly bass fish and after the redfish fiasco, the only thing they talked about was whether or not they would brave it and take a gheenoe out on the flats.
Chris's Red
Two of Buddy's Keepers
My Keeper the smallest of the four
The day's plunder
