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I hope this is the right place for this. My aplogies if not. My family has recently relocated to SGI and I will be heading down for some fishing. In the past, I have primarily surf fished for Pompano, ladyfish or what wever else lucked along or waded for specs. A paid trip produced some nice reds at 'The Bird/west pass" and we caught a few sheephead closer to teh bridge. Now that we have a boat, I am looking for any info that will help make the trip more fruitful. My first trip will be early June. My father-in-law loves fishing and we have chsed teh elusive bull red on many trips to south louisiana. This will be his first time to this area and I would like to get him a his fish. I hope to be down again in late summer and a week in early October. The boat is a 20 ft Center-consol with about 2.5- 3 ft of draft. I have picked up a"Hot Spot" map. In June, we will be looking for some Reds and Specs. I would also love to get into a Cobia. I have some of the basic stuff, but any info from lures, colors, bait rigs that work or the all too secret locations would be greatly appreciated. Also, and this is a huge stretch, If anyone would like to fish the week of June 6, I think I can work out trading your knowledge for a day on the water - boat, gas and beer on me.


Fred

That sounds like a good deal...if only I had knowledge. I hear Sikes Cut with mullet is the ticket to sit around a wait for the bulls, although there will be sharks as well. The baitshop on the Island has a markerboard that is updated that tells you what is biting and where.

I've fished that area quiet a bit in the last couple of years for trout and reds and had purdy good luck fishing the backside of Dog Island as well as the backside of St George island. We usually fish the spotty bottom in 2-5 foot of water. Good luck and keep us posted.

If you can fish then you can't miss there.
Dog Island Shoal is an amazing place.
Search our posts. There's all the direction one could ask for.

KYFRED, I hope your from Kentucky!

There is some good fishing all around there. In our kayaks we fish the North Side on the East End.

Go Cats!

Yes, I am from Kentucky. I ran into that problem with another board where i started with KYFAN. Lets just say that it took off before I could stop it.

And NO - As an LSU grad, I am not a Cats fan.

Welcome KeFred! My best advice is to purchase this most excellent book = FISH St. George Island Florida, by: John B. Spohrer, Jr. Copyright @ 1996, First Edition. Published by: Two Dogs Publishing, 123 Gulf Beach Dr. West, St. George Island, FL. 32328. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-91032. John Spohrer has done his research in writing this book! Call it the Bible of SGI fishing as it has made a great deal of difference in my figuring out how to fish the areas around the "island". Read it several times and then go fish, dude.

When LSU came to town we would chant "Go to Hell Dale, got to Hell" at the top of our lungs. Those were the days. And as a fan of the University of Kentucky we learnt not to call ourselves LSUJeff to confuse folks.

Yea, it is more a location identifier than an allegance thing. I have a hard time with their obsessed fans. But, I guess most fans are that way, it just seesm like UK has more verbal fans. LSU kinda grew on me. All my in-laws have at least one degree from there and any other schools is not looked too favorably upon. My wife, however, does have a second degree fro Western Kentucky in Bowling Green where we live.

I have learnt that the Kentucky reference is far better than telling eveyone I am from the Northeast. Seems like that pretty much shuts everyone down real quick. Good thing is I have adapted well the relocation with hunting and fishing taking a large part of my free time.