St. George Island, 10.12.07
Posted: October 14th, 2007, 10:49 am
Skag and I went down to SGI on Thurday night, watched the Noles lose over oysters and beverages at Teaches, up Friday morning to try our luck.
Put in at the second ramp in the State park and it was blowing HARD. Instead of testing out the Whaler's positive flotation and the abilities of the bilge pump, we stayed put and killed a couple of hours netting some bait and making a few casts, managed to find a 16" trout at one of the bars close to the ramp.
Wind died down around 10 or 11 and we headed around the point and then east. Made a few drifts in about 8', nice spotty bottom, caught a bunch of dink trout, all about 14.87", I was using a bone diamond assassin on a pink jig head under a CT, Skag was using some of the live bait.
We then headed to the east end of the island to fish the cut between SGI and Dog Island. The water was literally exploding with fish, birds diving, the craziest frenzy I've ever seen. First casts, he catches a huge blue, me a 19" jack. We then got into the spanish macks really thick, lost a bunch of tackle until we adjusted technique, and then it was our game. Spanish after spanish, with a ladyfish and blue every once and again. The highlight for me was a 20 minute fight with a huge bonito on 10 lb test, had to open a fresh beer halfway through! All told, I think we must have caught well over 50 fish.
Took a limit of spanish home and smoked 'em yesterday. I have very happy neighbors and a nice mess of fish dip for football watching with my Dad today.
Put in at the second ramp in the State park and it was blowing HARD. Instead of testing out the Whaler's positive flotation and the abilities of the bilge pump, we stayed put and killed a couple of hours netting some bait and making a few casts, managed to find a 16" trout at one of the bars close to the ramp.
Wind died down around 10 or 11 and we headed around the point and then east. Made a few drifts in about 8', nice spotty bottom, caught a bunch of dink trout, all about 14.87", I was using a bone diamond assassin on a pink jig head under a CT, Skag was using some of the live bait.
We then headed to the east end of the island to fish the cut between SGI and Dog Island. The water was literally exploding with fish, birds diving, the craziest frenzy I've ever seen. First casts, he catches a huge blue, me a 19" jack. We then got into the spanish macks really thick, lost a bunch of tackle until we adjusted technique, and then it was our game. Spanish after spanish, with a ladyfish and blue every once and again. The highlight for me was a 20 minute fight with a huge bonito on 10 lb test, had to open a fresh beer halfway through! All told, I think we must have caught well over 50 fish.
Took a limit of spanish home and smoked 'em yesterday. I have very happy neighbors and a nice mess of fish dip for football watching with my Dad today.
