St. Marks 7/19
Posted: July 20th, 2008, 1:14 pm
Went out with jon and one of his friends on Saturday morning out of the fort. Got up real early to get some night fishing in under the full moon but we had steering problems and did not get started until 5:45. Went out and fished the rest of the outgoing tide on the oyster bars but had no luck. Then decided to go over to the east flats and look for trout. We ended up with three dinks and decided to move. The east flats were pretty crowded with scallopers and there were some people fishing too. All fish were caught in 3-5 feet of water. We decided to move back to the river since fishing was slow and picked out a nice oyster bar about a 1/4 of mile back in the river. It had really nice looking current flows running around it from the now incoming tide. Fishing a 4" Gulp I cast into a deeper hole outside of the breaking water and slowly move it along the bottom and I got a hit. Fought it for a little thinking it was a red but it surfaced and flashed a long silver side. Turned into a 24" trout. Think that it is my largest ever but not sure. Jon was next and he had a massive fish on fishing pinfish on the bottom. Fought lasted for a good while and when he brought it in it was 27" with pinch and weighed a little over 6 pounds. Ryan fishing a little further down from us hooked into a 25" trout moments later. Had another quality fight and brought back in a redfish with 17 spots on it. It weighed 5 pounds. I continued fishing with gulp and jon and ryan finished out with the rest of the pinfish. Ryan hooked up with another red although 18" and maybe 1.5-2lbs.
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