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Put in at mashes sands landing at about 9:00am and headed into the bay. Caught hundreds of baitfish in the castnet, to try a little live bait chummin. Pulled up to random undisclosed location, and anchored. Started throwing handfulls of bait fish out, and hooked a couple under CT's. Caught a couple of shorts, and one keeper, then decided to pull the anchor and drift. We threw topwater, and picked up a few more keepers. Then we decided to go out of the bay to check out the action along the beach. Caught one more keeper, just shy of 20in, on a jig tipped with fish bites. At this point the sea was starting to become a little unfriendly, so we slipped back into the bay. Cast netted some more bait and anchored up in another random undisclosed location. There, we proceeded to catch a few more trout, some short, and a nice flounder. The whole time we fished at this last spot, a pesky cobia kept stealing our live bait. Every time we got to the pole fast enough for a hookset, he would spit the bare hook out, then angrily thrash the surface in protest of what we had tried to do. This went on for hours, after all who could just leave with a big Cobe circling there boat. Finally, just before dark, my reel equipped with 15# test started to scream. My heart raced as I set the hook, and for the first time felt him there. Just a split second later, the line was slack and I knew I had been cut off. Two seconds after that, the fish crashed through the surface again, only this time he came completly out of the water, to show us what we had missed, and man I don't know how big those fish can get, but WOW, this one was at least six foot, and as thick as he was, I guess he would have gone a hundred pounds. Oh well, maybe we will meet again down the road.
Any how the totals are as follows:
Trout- 5 keepers 16-20 around as many shorts.
Flounder- 1 19in
Ladyfish- 4
Catfish- 6
Gar- 1
StingRay- 1
Cobia- fattened one up for next trip

P.S. any one got any tips for this area, today was my first time fishing there, and I will be fishing there again next weekend.
Thanks in advance, Fish Masterson

Nice report, FM

Great report...

Good report FM. Sounds like a fine time on the water.

S/U here,

If mashes sands is the same place i am thinking of, we have had some luck out in front of piney island out by the old duck blind. also had some good luck with the east and west bar for redfish that is between big piney and shell point. Be carful though the water gets very skinny over that way.

You may want to launch at the panacea marina to fish this side of the bay. Take a left at Poseys Rest. and go right down to the launch.

S/U, it sounds more like yer talkin about Bottoms landing than Mashes Sands Fish, I fish out of Bottoms much more often than Mashes anymore, but have had some really good catches of the flats between the two channels that go out of Mashes Sands For Reds, I would fish the loooong Oyster bar that runs from the edge of the channel all the way over to Bald Point It sounds like ya know how ta locate em without much help though

well there fish masterson youll have to take me on one of your fishin adventures on day id like to go out in your boat