St. Marks 3-31-07
Posted: March 31st, 2007, 10:46 pm
The wife and kid headed off to the parade and I decided to stay home to get some things done around the quiet house. The parade was just not my thing 
While cleaning up the garage, I found a tackle box I had been looking for. I cleaned it out and got it organized to go fishing. Then I thought, why not today??? I called my buddy Jeff who informed me that he was home rotating the tires on his truck. I asked him if he wanted to do something better than that, so we decided to hook up the boat and head to the flats 
We got to shell Island Fish Camp around 1:45 PM. A kind gent offered us the last of his live shrimp......which we gladly accepted being that Scott @ Jerry's told us there was no shrimp to be found anywhere
(We stopped by there on the way down and witnessed a guy down there with a 7 ft. bullshark in the bed of his truck 
....said he had caught it an hour before right in front of the lighthouse on cutbait.....Scott took a pic.) Anyhow, we left SIFC and sped down to the flats just east of the lighthouse. We set up a drift and Jeff hung a nice trout on his 2nd cast. He got it right up to the boat and it slung the lure 
I threw a live shrimp out the back and started throwing a new penny gulp out the front. The trout were biting almost immediately on both lines. I decided to just use the shrimp and put 4 nice trout in the cooler. Eventually, the spanish moved in and we boated a few of them. We made 3 drifts over the next 2.5 hours never leaving the area. When the bite slowed, we decided to head back in with a nice cooler of fish. Great day on the water with a good friend 
TOTAL FOR THE DAY: 10 TROUT (16"-19")
4 SPANISH (16"-21")
The fish seemed to bite the best in 4-7 ft. depths. Anything less than that produced nothing. Bait of the day was live shrimp and new penny gulps fished under a CT. We did throw one live sand trout out and retrieved only a head.....guessing it was the spanish.
While cleaning up the garage, I found a tackle box I had been looking for. I cleaned it out and got it organized to go fishing. Then I thought, why not today??? I called my buddy Jeff who informed me that he was home rotating the tires on his truck. I asked him if he wanted to do something better than that, so we decided to hook up the boat and head to the flats We got to shell Island Fish Camp around 1:45 PM. A kind gent offered us the last of his live shrimp......which we gladly accepted being that Scott @ Jerry's told us there was no shrimp to be found anywhere
(We stopped by there on the way down and witnessed a guy down there with a 7 ft. bullshark in the bed of his truck ....said he had caught it an hour before right in front of the lighthouse on cutbait.....Scott took a pic.) Anyhow, we left SIFC and sped down to the flats just east of the lighthouse. We set up a drift and Jeff hung a nice trout on his 2nd cast. He got it right up to the boat and it slung the lure I threw a live shrimp out the back and started throwing a new penny gulp out the front. The trout were biting almost immediately on both lines. I decided to just use the shrimp and put 4 nice trout in the cooler. Eventually, the spanish moved in and we boated a few of them. We made 3 drifts over the next 2.5 hours never leaving the area. When the bite slowed, we decided to head back in with a nice cooler of fish. Great day on the water with a good friend TOTAL FOR THE DAY: 10 TROUT (16"-19")
4 SPANISH (16"-21")
The fish seemed to bite the best in 4-7 ft. depths. Anything less than that produced nothing. Bait of the day was live shrimp and new penny gulps fished under a CT. We did throw one live sand trout out and retrieved only a head.....guessing it was the spanish.
