Evening at Aucilla 8/17/8

[No Slack]

Attempted to fish Sat morning but at about 11PM Friday night realized there was something wrong with the tilt/trim on the motor. It would only go up. Nixed the morning trip and am probably glad b/c it drizzled and rained all morning. Found the problem...bad trim relays. Ran around town until I found two of them, replaced them and the trim worked fine. Decided to try it Sunday afternoon. Put in at Aucilla @ 2pm. Found a good creek on a falling tide and caught 2 decent redfish, 1 on spoon, 1 on on chugger and a hard pulling jack crevalle. About 5:00, eased out to the flats, caught a few small keeper trout with glow DOA on a popper. As the wind pushed us back in toward some good spotty bottom we got some great blow-ups on topwater. The fish just wouldn't eat the bait, just wanted to jump over it, throw it in the air and beat it around with their tails. Brought a couple big trout to the boat that spit the lure at the last moment. Durn paper mouths. Final tally: 4 trout to 18" and 2 keeper but small reds. Left all the big ones for later. Caught on the gold spoon, chuggers, glow DOA, candy corn SW Assasin, and a ton of blow-ups on the bone top dog.

[FUTCHCAIRO]

THAT SOUNDS LIKE A WINNER TO ME, BEEN OUT THERE MANY TIMES AND ONLY GET 1 OR 2 STRIKES.
PA THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA

[whitebc]

[captkeyser]

Fished Aucilla Friday..... same thing. Trout were hitting short, but reds were extremely aggressive. Ended up moving to 5ft of water and fishing pinfish. Caught 5 trout to 22" and a 6ft Bull Shark on 10lb Power Pro..... took 45mins to get him next to the boat. Sorry, no pics.

[flounderpounder]

Thanks for the report.

[Ron Wilson]

Sounds like you had some good action, No Slack.

[caseycook]

Thanks for the report!