St Marks 8-19
Posted: August 20th, 2006, 12:21 pm
Put in at lighthouse at about 10:30 to fish falling tide.
First to secret creek and worked length of creek with gold spoon...nothing.
Fished my way out of creek on falling tide using gulp shrimp and got two redfish. One was maybe the smallest redfish I've ever seen in my life. The other was about 20" and went in the box. Also fought a flounder all the way up to the boat, but he wasn't hooked -- just being greedy. He simply let go and swam away when he got close to the boat.
Then went to some rocks in 15'. Got another flounder to the boat that wasn't hooked but had the net under him when he let go. Otherwise pretty slow so moved out to some rocks in 20'.
Got a pretty nice sea bass at this spot and a pretty good bluefish. Also got two grouper that were a little over 21" a piece. Both caught on light spinning tackle so they must have moved off the rock. No way I could have kept them out of the rocks with the light rod. The saddest part of the day was having to throw them back
Then the ladyfish moved in and hit on every cast. Fun for awhile but I got tired of that so I moved out to some hard bottom in 25'.
At that spot caught a bluefish on a stretch 25. Pretty nice bluefish for these parts but his eyes were clearly bigger than his stomach. Didn't do much more trolling because of the grass. Started throwing jigs and noticed some surface activity. Picked up a rod rigged with a captian action spoon, threw into the middle of it and got a nice spanish. After a couple of cut offs, the jacks moved in and hit every single cast. Fish were in 2 - 3 lb range and were lots of fun on light spinning tackle. Couldn't get a jig to the bottom to see if anything was holding on the rocks so eventually called it a day.
In the box:
2 bluefish
1 flounder
1 black sea bass
1 spanish mackeral
1 redfish
Threw back umpteem jacks and ladyfish and the two grouper. For the first time in a long time, no catfish
First to secret creek and worked length of creek with gold spoon...nothing.
Fished my way out of creek on falling tide using gulp shrimp and got two redfish. One was maybe the smallest redfish I've ever seen in my life. The other was about 20" and went in the box. Also fought a flounder all the way up to the boat, but he wasn't hooked -- just being greedy. He simply let go and swam away when he got close to the boat.
Then went to some rocks in 15'. Got another flounder to the boat that wasn't hooked but had the net under him when he let go. Otherwise pretty slow so moved out to some rocks in 20'.
Got a pretty nice sea bass at this spot and a pretty good bluefish. Also got two grouper that were a little over 21" a piece. Both caught on light spinning tackle so they must have moved off the rock. No way I could have kept them out of the rocks with the light rod. The saddest part of the day was having to throw them back
Then the ladyfish moved in and hit on every cast. Fun for awhile but I got tired of that so I moved out to some hard bottom in 25'.At that spot caught a bluefish on a stretch 25. Pretty nice bluefish for these parts but his eyes were clearly bigger than his stomach. Didn't do much more trolling because of the grass. Started throwing jigs and noticed some surface activity. Picked up a rod rigged with a captian action spoon, threw into the middle of it and got a nice spanish. After a couple of cut offs, the jacks moved in and hit every single cast. Fish were in 2 - 3 lb range and were lots of fun on light spinning tackle. Couldn't get a jig to the bottom to see if anything was holding on the rocks so eventually called it a day.
In the box:
2 bluefish
1 flounder
1 black sea bass
1 spanish mackeral
1 redfish
Threw back umpteem jacks and ladyfish and the two grouper. For the first time in a long time, no catfish
