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Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 27th, 2008, 10:07 pm
by Perch Jerker
Fished hard Saturday at Keaton with the wife's Brother in law and a couple of his buddies. Finished the day with a nice mix bag of (3)flounder,(3) spanish, and (5)trout, but we never could put anything together consistant with the trout. Started looking in all the logical places, like 4 foot of water, but nothing was happening. Wound up out deeper and began catching a few. Caught a 28" Cobia, and hooked a huge tarpon that resulted in a nice 3 second fight, but what a casplosion it was. Black Sea Bass were everywhere, and lord the jig tails we went through. 8+ bags of gulps and almost everthing else in the tackle bag, even all that shuff I've been carrying around for years. Spring cleaning I guess.
Today, we got out there early, armed with a game plan of draging jigs in 6 - 7' of water. Plan was executed flawlessly and within an hour we had 11 nice trout in the boat. Only had to measure 2 of them. Fished another 1.5 hours with only BSB and Bluefish biting so we headed in.
My advise would be: go early, fish deep, & fish slow.

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Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 7:54 am
by ddb
Thanks for the report and the tips. A lot of people have been catching em in 6-7 this spring. Might have to do with the water clarity and depth.

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 8:16 am
by Reel Cowboy
Not a bad weekend.
Thanks for the report.

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 9:09 am
by caseycook
Nice report!

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 6:07 pm
by Ron Wilson
Nice weekend Perch. Thanks for sharing :thumbup:

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 6:21 pm
by Good Times
good stuff

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 8:03 pm
by BAD BEHAVIOR
Thanks for the report and info. I found some the same info myself this weekend. Where were the shorts?? we had to cut thru them to find a decent trout!

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 28th, 2008, 9:27 pm
by Eerman
Good couple of days :thumbup: Tarpon are on the prowl :thumbup: :thumbup:

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 3:47 pm
by DixieReb
Glad yall had fun. I need to make it back down to Keaton soon. We saw 2 big tarpon last Friday about 2 miles out of the Aucilla.

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 6:27 pm
by flounderpounder
Nice to know the poons are almost here, great report! :thumbup: :beer:

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 9:54 pm
by Perch Jerker
BAD BEHAVIOR wrote:Thanks for the report and info. I found some the same info myself this weekend. Where were the shorts?? we had to cut thru them to find a decent trout!
Good question.. we did catch a bunch of shorts on Saturday while looking for fish in shallower water... but on Sunday morning we caught very few shorts in the deeper water.

Re: Keaton 4/26,27

Posted: April 29th, 2008, 11:05 pm
by Bow'd Up
Nice report, thanks for the info :thumbup: :thumbup: