St Marks 2008.03.09
Posted: March 11th, 2008, 9:05 pm
After burning a needless day off work Friday and slummin around the house Fri and Sat, had to get the boat out Sunday. Put in at the lighthouse somewhere around noon, headed cautiously east. The water in the east flats was pretty muddy even considering the weather, couldn't see the bottom when my depth finder was reading 2-3 (and it has a habit of saying it's deeper than it is). Finally got the cajones to run out and headed 4-5 miles east, turned north to some creeks. There still wasn't enough water to get in the places I was going, so I parked in the sand and chucked out a shrimp and chilled. Didn't get a bite, but did notice LOTS of baitfish of all sorts swimming by the boat. Most I"ve seen in quite a while. Paddled, poled and walked my way up to a creek mouth around 13:30 and let the boat get stuck again. Threw out some shrimp on one pole and worked one of those new fishbites on a tourist cork with another. I gave the fish bites some time, but no real effort. No bites on that. The shrimp got no interest either for about 20 minutes. As soon as 3-4 more inches of water came in they started getting inhaled. Landed one nice red around 25 on the shrimp, let a couple of small slots and shorts go and lost a few in the fight. I got bored with that and as soon as enough water came in, I nudged the boat back off the edge and let the current take me up the creek. I landed another red about 100 feet in to the creek on maybe my 2nd or 3rd cast on the smaller size nemire red ripper red color. I drifted about a half mile or so up the creek, current and wind were offsetting each other just enough that I was moving very very slowly and it was perfect. When the tide started to slack I had to crank up the motor and spook everything in 20 miles. Hit a creek mouth for the outgoing, saw a few reds there, but no takers. Got the boat out around 5:30 and came home. Not bad considering the weather. Saw no trout and only 1-2 sheepies. Unfortunately I didn't stop to take any pics, but nothing incredible anyhoo.
