Aucilla SLAM 11-12-08
Posted: November 12th, 2008, 9:47 pm
I had to work at the coast today, so I thought I would try to get some fishing in first 
I met up with my buddy Raymond this morning at 6:30am and headed down to Aucilla. Stopped by JR's for some live scrimps before heading down to the river. We got to the ramp to find a very low tide....
We launched and putted on out to the flats....
Nice Aucilla ROCK
We stopped of in spot #1 and fished in 3ft. of water reading 63 degrees. First fish in the boat was this monster
....notice the size of the jig compared to the fish (about a 7" trout 
)
The bite was slow on topwater, but eventually picked up with jigs....
The trout bite was relatively slow on everything we threw at them , so we decided to move in to fish some shallower spots along the grass. This would prove to be a good move I tossed a live scrimp out the back of the boat along the grassline and set the rod down to grab another pole with a jig. As soon as I did, the pole with the scrimp tried to launch over the side I grabbed it and had this on the other end.....
Then Raymond got a hit.....here he is fighting the red....
And another.....
The reds just kept hitting the scrimps one after another. So we kept throwing it to them. Every fish boated was a keeper With only 3 scrimp left, this monster grabbed one and hauled azz towards Econfina...a 26" red!!!!
We ran out of scrimp after catching 8 keepers, so we kept our 2 and decided to go find the trout. We set up a drift in 4 ft. and the first cast landed a nice 19" trout! Over the next 1.5 hours, we would catch a 4 man limit of trout, throwing back numerous in the slot. With time getting away from us, we decided we had to go and left them biting
I hate it when that happens 
It was a beautiful day on the water and we caught a ton of fish. They started biting really well once we reached high tide and stayed over the grass. Can't wait to do it again this weekend
TOTAL FOR THE DAY:
10 TROUT (16-23")
8 REDS (19-26") KEPT 2 (24" & 26")
1 BLUE
THE TROUT BIT THE BEST IN 3-4 FT. ON THE RISING TIDE. FAVORITE BAITS WERE SWA'S IN FIRETAIL & CHICKEN-ON-A-CHAIN. 5" WHITE FLUKES DID WELL ALSO (BIGGEST TROUT HIT THE FLUKE). TOPWATER ONLY YIELDED A FEW STRIKES WITH ALL FISH MISSING
REDS WERE CAUGHT ON JR's HAND-PICKED SCRIMPS WATER TEMP WAS BETWEEN 61-64 DEGREES IN 2-5 FT.
I met up with my buddy Raymond this morning at 6:30am and headed down to Aucilla. Stopped by JR's for some live scrimps before heading down to the river. We got to the ramp to find a very low tide....We launched and putted on out to the flats....
Nice Aucilla ROCK
We stopped of in spot #1 and fished in 3ft. of water reading 63 degrees. First fish in the boat was this monster
....notice the size of the jig compared to the fish (about a 7" trout )The bite was slow on topwater, but eventually picked up with jigs....
The trout bite was relatively slow on everything we threw at them , so we decided to move in to fish some shallower spots along the grass. This would prove to be a good move
I tossed a live scrimp out the back of the boat along the grassline and set the rod down to grab another pole with a jig. As soon as I did, the pole with the scrimp tried to launch over the side I grabbed it and had this on the other end.....Then Raymond got a hit.....here he is fighting the red....
And another.....
The reds just kept hitting the scrimps one after another. So we kept throwing it to them. Every fish boated was a keeper
With only 3 scrimp left, this monster grabbed one and hauled azz towards Econfina...a 26" red!!!!We ran out of scrimp after catching 8 keepers, so we kept our 2 and decided to go find the trout. We set up a drift in 4 ft. and the first cast landed a nice 19" trout! Over the next 1.5 hours, we would catch a 4 man limit of trout, throwing back numerous in the slot. With time getting away from us, we decided we had to go and left them biting
I hate it when that happens It was a beautiful day on the water and we caught a ton of fish. They started biting really well once we reached high tide and stayed over the grass. Can't wait to do it again this weekend
TOTAL FOR THE DAY:
10 TROUT (16-23")
8 REDS (19-26") KEPT 2 (24" & 26")
1 BLUE
THE TROUT BIT THE BEST IN 3-4 FT. ON THE RISING TIDE. FAVORITE BAITS WERE SWA'S IN FIRETAIL & CHICKEN-ON-A-CHAIN. 5" WHITE FLUKES DID WELL ALSO (BIGGEST TROUT HIT THE FLUKE). TOPWATER ONLY YIELDED A FEW STRIKES WITH ALL FISH MISSING
REDS WERE CAUGHT ON JR's HAND-PICKED SCRIMPS WATER TEMP WAS BETWEEN 61-64 DEGREES IN 2-5 FT.
