2008.03.29 - West of the Aucilla (and east of Big Pass)
Posted: March 29th, 2008, 10:23 pm
Put Mojo's boat in at the St. Marks lighthouse about 15 minutes before sunrise this morning and headed east toward Aucilla. Stopped and snapped a pic of the sunrise about half way there.
Stopped in some random holes in the flats on the way east and picked up as many shorts as we wanted, I picked up one keeper there, decided to go after some bigger fish, so eastward we continued, then headed up in to 2 foot water and got lines out around 8:30. The trout bite was on immediately. My first fish there came in over 18. A couple casts later I got one just under 20....and another the same size, then a 17.5 - obviously not a tournament day
Mojo picked up a few more shorts and lost at least one good one. We ran two drifts in the same area. Cabbage grass and hard bottom. Surprise - Redfish Magic Zulu and flutter shad got every trout there...tried topwater with no joy. We stopped those drifts when the tide slacked around 9:30-ish.
At that point, we went creek fishing, but couldn't catch any good creeks. Water was just a liiiittle bit too skinny for comfort, so we aborted two creek entries and headed more east after wasting a good hour or more. Hit the oyster bars around Aucilla mouth for about half an hour. The water over there was dirty and mega-tannin. Between the two of us we got one bite there, had too much company for comfort and worked our way back westward a little at a time the rest of the day.
We spent about 12 hours on the water total, and I'm feelin too tired and lazy to type out all the details today, but in summation, I got a very nice trout limit, we picked up a flats slam (it's easy with a motor!), Mojo got a perfect money red at 26.75 and fat, and Gulp! won the remora-catching contest. We covered about 20 spots from Aucilla to Big Pass and fished from 100 yards to 4-5 miles offshore. The deeper we went, the worse the action was. Biggest trout of the day was lost at the boat I would estimate it was in the 25" range, and was in 9-12 inch deep water, bit Mojo's fire-tiger flutter shad. I did try another HOGY today but we only got in the big fish when I had something else rigged up, and the small fish weren't bothering it much. I again got a couple of monster hits on it but didn't hook anything up to it.
ALL keepers of all species were caught on the Zulus and flutter shad. Also used Super Spook, Hogy 7", Catch 2000, Gulp shrimp and peeler crab (which combined for a total of 1 remora) and threw a nemire red ripper about 3 times site-casting a red. It hit it, then turned around and never came back. Here's some pics...
This picture reminds me of that stupid Billy Bass thing they issued to all rednecks 8 or 10 years ago at christmas
Yah...I got one...so what?!?!?
Stopped in some random holes in the flats on the way east and picked up as many shorts as we wanted, I picked up one keeper there, decided to go after some bigger fish, so eastward we continued, then headed up in to 2 foot water and got lines out around 8:30. The trout bite was on immediately. My first fish there came in over 18. A couple casts later I got one just under 20....and another the same size, then a 17.5 - obviously not a tournament day
Mojo picked up a few more shorts and lost at least one good one. We ran two drifts in the same area. Cabbage grass and hard bottom. Surprise - Redfish Magic Zulu and flutter shad got every trout there...tried topwater with no joy. We stopped those drifts when the tide slacked around 9:30-ish. At that point, we went creek fishing, but couldn't catch any good creeks. Water was just a liiiittle bit too skinny for comfort, so we aborted two creek entries and headed more east after wasting a good hour or more. Hit the oyster bars around Aucilla mouth for about half an hour. The water over there was dirty and mega-tannin. Between the two of us we got one bite there, had too much company for comfort and worked our way back westward a little at a time the rest of the day.
We spent about 12 hours on the water total, and I'm feelin too tired and lazy to type out all the details today, but in summation, I got a very nice trout limit, we picked up a flats slam (it's easy with a motor!), Mojo got a perfect money red at 26.75 and fat, and Gulp! won the remora-catching contest. We covered about 20 spots from Aucilla to Big Pass and fished from 100 yards to 4-5 miles offshore. The deeper we went, the worse the action was. Biggest trout of the day was lost at the boat
I would estimate it was in the 25" range, and was in 9-12 inch deep water, bit Mojo's fire-tiger flutter shad. I did try another HOGY today but we only got in the big fish when I had something else rigged up, and the small fish weren't bothering it much. I again got a couple of monster hits on it but didn't hook anything up to it.ALL keepers of all species were caught on the Zulus and flutter shad. Also used Super Spook, Hogy 7", Catch 2000, Gulp shrimp and peeler crab (which combined for a total of 1 remora) and threw a nemire red ripper about 3 times site-casting a red. It hit it, then turned around and never came back. Here's some pics...
This picture reminds me of that stupid Billy Bass thing they issued to all rednecks 8 or 10 years ago at christmas
Yah...I got one...so what?!?!?