Keaton Beach 3-14-03 & 3-15-03
Posted: March 17th, 2003, 10:51 am
What a couple of great days on the water. We almost cancelled our trip thursday due to the weather forecast for rain fri. & sat. We decided to go anyway and i'm sure glad we did. Not a drop of rain either day.
Friday we left the marina around 9:30 with overcast skies and temps in the low 60's. The seas had a light chop from the wind, but nothing to really complain about. We headed out to around 7'-0" of water and started casting S.A. candy corn grubs on red jig heads. The bite was slow until around 11:00 when the sun broke and the temp got up to around 73. The best bet seemed to be a Cajun Thunder with a candy corn grub about 5'-0" below. We also tried live pinfish with no sucess at all. We caught specs all day long, but alot of them were shorts. We ended up with 9 keepers ranging from 15" to 19", no fish over 20".
Saturday morning the skies looked like it was going to rain, and there was a fairly dense fog. We decided to head on out anyway to the same spot we fished the day before. Around 11:00 once again the sun broke out and cleared the fog and clouds. We caught 2 keepers quick and then it just stopped. We were about the only boat out in deeper water. It looked like everybody was fishing in 4' to 5'. Since the sun was out and no threatening clouds we decide to head out to one of the artificial reefs. This was my first trip out that far in our 18' c.c. so my nerves were a little on edge. The trip out was perfect and the g.p.s did all the work. Had a little trouble anchoring properly and couldn't stay on the spot just right. We caught several black sea bass on live pinfish, but no grouper. The Mackerel were EVERYWHERE on our way out and in. I've never fished for them so I wasn't prepared with steel leaders or bait. I cast a grub at them several time with no luck. We came back in close to shore and caught 1 more keeper spec in about 5' of water to finish the day.
All in all it was a great relaxing 2 days of fishing. Thanks for all the great advice from everyone who post on this site.
Flats & Grubs
Friday we left the marina around 9:30 with overcast skies and temps in the low 60's. The seas had a light chop from the wind, but nothing to really complain about. We headed out to around 7'-0" of water and started casting S.A. candy corn grubs on red jig heads. The bite was slow until around 11:00 when the sun broke and the temp got up to around 73. The best bet seemed to be a Cajun Thunder with a candy corn grub about 5'-0" below. We also tried live pinfish with no sucess at all. We caught specs all day long, but alot of them were shorts. We ended up with 9 keepers ranging from 15" to 19", no fish over 20".
Saturday morning the skies looked like it was going to rain, and there was a fairly dense fog. We decided to head on out anyway to the same spot we fished the day before. Around 11:00 once again the sun broke out and cleared the fog and clouds. We caught 2 keepers quick and then it just stopped. We were about the only boat out in deeper water. It looked like everybody was fishing in 4' to 5'. Since the sun was out and no threatening clouds we decide to head out to one of the artificial reefs. This was my first trip out that far in our 18' c.c. so my nerves were a little on edge. The trip out was perfect and the g.p.s did all the work. Had a little trouble anchoring properly and couldn't stay on the spot just right. We caught several black sea bass on live pinfish, but no grouper. The Mackerel were EVERYWHERE on our way out and in. I've never fished for them so I wasn't prepared with steel leaders or bait. I cast a grub at them several time with no luck. We came back in close to shore and caught 1 more keeper spec in about 5' of water to finish the day.
All in all it was a great relaxing 2 days of fishing. Thanks for all the great advice from everyone who post on this site.
Flats & Grubs