keaton beach report

wetjet · Post by **wetjet** » April 21st, 2003, 5:49 pm

Went down to keaton on thursday night with about 8 families. Our boat fished friday and saturday morning. Everyone did pretty well on the trout, bluefish, and spanish. We boated 6 keeper trout, 2 blues, and 1 spanish on friday. On saturday morning, we boated 8 keeper trout and 1 blue in about 2.5 hours.

The highlight of the trip was hooking, fighting, and landing a needle fish that was all of 40-inches long.

He jumped many times doing summersalts and going crazy. Never seen one even half that size before. Quite the fight for a 12 year old boy armed with 8 lb test.

We caught fish from about 3 feet out to over 8 feet with most of the fish holding in the 3 to 5 foot range.

The water is still wine colored but clear enough to see the bottom even in deep water.

Post by **tin can** » April 21st, 2003, 6:59 pm

Sounds like a great getaway weekend. Glad y'all caught some fish.

Post by **Jumptrout51** » April 21st, 2003, 7:16 pm

It may be too late now. You should have had the needlefish weighted and measured. Sounds like a state record to me.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » April 22nd, 2003, 6:47 am

Sounds like a good time..

wxguy · Post by **wxguy** » April 23rd, 2003, 2:50 pm

Doesn't really matter but the needlefish was probably a houndfish....they get really big... 9+ pounds is the Record Breaking area....whew