St. Marks River, Thursday 1/4
Posted: January 5th, 2007, 1:10 pm
Took a friend for his first fishing trip around here, or Florida for that matter. We put in at Shields around 10am and headed up river. It was raining pretty steady, and there weren't many boats on the river. We pulled up to a spot that has been producing a lot of small reds for me recently. I showed my friend how to put a live shrimp on a hook, and how to cast a spinning reel. Then I sat down to rig my pole and he gets a fish on. We finally get it in the boat and it's a 22" red. 
I haven't had a keeper red for weeks, and he gets one on his first cast. 
I thought pretty seriously about telling him to sit down since he had his limit 
<img src="http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pi ... Keeper.jpg">
We continued fishing there until we ran out of live shrimp. He wanted to keep fishing, so we grabbed another 12 shrimp at Shields and headed to the Wakulla side and got 5 small reds, and a keeper sheepie (=6 fish on 12 shrimp!).
Final count:
14 reds (the one keeper)
1 keeper sheepie
2 small trout, and a lot of what I think are small mangrove snapper.
I haven't had a keeper red for weeks, and he gets one on his first cast. I thought pretty seriously about telling him to sit down since he had his limit <img src="http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pi ... Keeper.jpg">
We continued fishing there until we ran out of live shrimp. He wanted to keep fishing, so we grabbed another 12 shrimp at Shields and headed to the Wakulla side and got 5 small reds, and a keeper sheepie (=6 fish on 12 shrimp!).
Final count:
14 reds (the one keeper)
1 keeper sheepie
2 small trout, and a lot of what I think are small mangrove snapper.
. But it is a lot of fun watching them light up when a big fish is on their line.