St. Marks 2008.03.27 - up, up the river
Posted: March 27th, 2008, 11:14 pm
After my scouting experience last night, I determined that I needed to go fishing after work Friday. This evening I pre-fished for that. I haven't been up the river more than a mile or so since the ramp at the fort closed down, and I have a lot of sweet spots up there once the spring and summer patterns start kicking in, so I put in at Shields with a game plan of checking on a few of them to see what they were up to.
Rolled by the fort - see what looks like the beginning of a pretty hardcore foundation for a 2-lane ramp next to the old one. Meant to take some pictures but when I rolled by realized the camera was in the bottom of the dry box that was stowed, so skipped ahead. I ended up covering about 2 miles of grassline in about an hour and a half before dark, thanks again to a blustery day.
Like yesterday, I threw out a Gulp on a CT and let it float behind me, and chucked Redfish Magic Zulu and Zara Super Spook on two other poles. Only change I made was I swapped out the jig-head on the CT with a circle hook
Long story short, no bites on the gulp, half a little piece of bite on the Zulu but no fights. Super Spook produced a few really good topwater blowups of the sloshy, moves-a-lot-of-water variety, but all'a dem missed the dang hooks. Got a lesser blowup of the airy-smacky-splashy type and actually hooked up. I knew by the sound it was a pink dookie fish...it was. Still always fun to catch dang near anything on topwater that doesn't slice up your line and off with your lure. So I didn't find the redfish and occasional trout bite I was lookin for where I was lookin, but I did get a fairly large ladyfish, which is further indication of emerging summer patterns, so
for that.
Rolled by the fort - see what looks like the beginning of a pretty hardcore foundation for a 2-lane ramp next to the old one. Meant to take some pictures but when I rolled by realized the camera was in the bottom of the dry box that was stowed, so skipped ahead. I ended up covering about 2 miles of grassline in about an hour and a half before dark, thanks again to a blustery day.
Like yesterday, I threw out a Gulp on a CT and let it float behind me, and chucked Redfish Magic Zulu and Zara Super Spook on two other poles. Only change I made was I swapped out the jig-head on the CT with a circle hook
Long story short, no bites on the gulp, half a little piece of bite on the Zulu but no fights. Super Spook produced a few really good topwater blowups of the sloshy, moves-a-lot-of-water variety, but all'a dem missed the dang hooks. Got a lesser blowup of the airy-smacky-splashy type and actually hooked up. I knew by the sound it was a pink dookie fish...it was. Still always fun to catch dang near anything on topwater that doesn't slice up your line and off with your lure. So I didn't find the redfish and occasional trout bite I was lookin for where I was lookin, but I did get a fairly large ladyfish, which is further indication of emerging summer patterns, so
for that.
