A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
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Location, date, time, water conditions, weather conditions, baits, techniques, species caught, etc.
It was a little bumpy out there around the spoil islands/bird rack, and the number of boats in the river didn't help issues any. I saw more big boats running the river than I've seen since I started fishing St.Marks. The number of people out there in little jon boats and such didn't help matters either. I thought I was going to have to pull several people out of the river when a large boat wake nearly rolled their 12' fiberglass skiff over.
We found most of the Scallops just west of Grey Mare in 5-6' of water. Like Tom said, they were carpeting the bottom. I'd get 3-4 between each breath, it was incredible.
With the wind at 10-15 out of the east, we set three drifts using the anchor because the engine wouldn't' start. Drifted all the way west to Black Rock. Passed 50 boats on the way back to Shields. If I had to do it again, I'd do it because it was worth the time together with the family.
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