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St. Andrews 07/05/07

Posted: July 5th, 2007, 8:48 pm
by Chalk
I say always post the good, the bad and the ugly...today was the bad, almost an ugly :lol: .

My neighbor that stopped by the other week to ask if I was Chalk (Ricky) and I slide the Ghostrider into the bay bright and early this morning...Ricky makes a nice long first cast and bam catches a nice keeper trout...I was worried that the day maybe tough and it was.

We fished 36.2 miles of lacking redfish, not eating redfish and sleeping redfish bank...Yes, sleeping redfish...they were still and not moving...I hung a spoon in front of one so long Ricky said he never saw a spoon flutter so long and not get eat'n...Broke out the whippy stick and cast to two other snoozers and got the same results.

Ended up heading to the goto spot of 2006 and finally landed a 21 inch red and had a few others on for a few seconds.

Saw some really nice trout while looking for reds, saw some nice reds, we just couldn't get them to eat...I'm done with West bay for awhile, it will be east bay, St. Joe or CIS until the fall.

Lures were topwater, had one rat red hit a spoon.

Nothing broke, spent a good long day enjoying mother nature :thumbup: :thumbup:

Posted: July 5th, 2007, 9:13 pm
by DixieReb
:roll: That's really wierd. We saw some sleeping fish earlier in the year, but water was only 65 deg. then. What would make them lethargic this time of year?

Posted: July 5th, 2007, 9:24 pm
by Chalk
I figure we are coming off a full moon and the fish are feeding through the night and sleeping during the day...The fish we caught and bait activity only started around 4:00 pm, so that's my thinking. The later it got the more activity we saw...If we have bright nights, fish later in the day

Posted: July 5th, 2007, 9:32 pm
by What a mess
THE NEIGHBOR SAYS IF THE SQUIRRELS ARE NOT EATING DON'T BOTHER.

MAYBE THEY FED LAST NIGHT UNDER THE MOON.

Posted: July 5th, 2007, 9:36 pm
by Eerman
Definitely just a bad day. Ugly is when you drop your boat on the ramp or run over a 2X4. :D Glad you got to look at some fish anyway.

Posted: July 5th, 2007, 10:07 pm
by Barhopr
I feel your pain brotha. Same thing happened to me today :smt012

Posted: July 6th, 2007, 8:18 am
by bman
Does he still believe you are "The Chalk"

Glad you got out- I'm itchy for some fishing action...

Posted: July 6th, 2007, 8:52 am
by What a mess
bman wrote:Does he still believe you are "The Chalk"

Glad you got out- I'm itchy for some fishing action...
go scratch you are surrounded by fish.

Posted: July 8th, 2007, 8:40 am
by birddog
That Bay is still trying to recover from the azz kicking that red tide brought a couple of years ago. :smt009

Posted: July 9th, 2007, 7:41 am
by tin can
Ya gotta take the bad with the good. There'll be another day.