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Was to lazy to get this report on before now

Took a friend, Dick Elliot, out of the Econ about 7:45. Wind out of the North East 10 to 15 plus...(been a while since we've had to deal with that). Water was pretty choppy but still not too bad. Stopped and tried to catch some pins and must have been holding my mouth wrong cause I could not stir up a bite to save my uknowwhat . Stopped trying to catch pins and went on out about 3 miles Southeast. Started drifting with live shrimp, jigs and my guest throwing CT's while I continued to try to catch some bait. Chop turned into Waves and then Rollers! Traveled on out towards the platforms and the conditions just got worse ( I'm sure there were a couple of 3-4 footers ). Picked up and came in closer to the shoreline for some cover from the wind. Blues were chasing bait on the surface in several places. About 10 or 10:30 the wind laid some and the conditions really started improving. We picked up our first trout and between 11 and probably 1:30 we managed to collect 6 with the biggest being just over 20 inches. Caught 4 or 5 blues, 1 lizard fish, 1 toad fish, 1 ladyfish, bunch of cats. From the radio traffic I heard it sounded like at least a couple of folks were having much better luck with catching trout than we were. Low tide was around 5 or 5:30 and I decided to head in about 4 while there was still some water in the river. Trimed up the motor a good bit...It was skinny but made it in OK.

WTG At least you were out there.

Good fishing SR. Considering the wind.
What no sharks?

Morning CS,

Nope... not a single shark The Blues made up for it though. Boy those things can sure tear up some stuff. I had one of the bigger trout hit a live pin trailed off the stern. I had a circle hook on the bait and let me tell you... those circle hooks work good but that trout had the pin halfway down his throat and the circle hook was caught deep. When that happens you really have to hurt the fish to get one of those things out. Glad it was a legal fish!

Sir reel,

If I understand your post, your friend used a CT and you did not.
Any difference in hook ups?

I've not been using a CT, unless I hook up a pinfish like you.

I was hoping to head to SGI tomorrow, but the red tide may change
my mind.

Good morning RX,

probably wasn't as clear as I needed to be. My guest was using a Cajun Thunder(CT) with a pink jig head. We put a small piece of fishbite on the jig then space guppy grub and finally tipped the hook with a shrimp tail. I spent a good bit of time fishing for pins and as a result wasn't doing much except monitering the two rods hung off the stern, one with a live shrimp under a popping cork and one with a pin fish under a Alameda (sp?) rattle'n cork. When I had 1/2 doz pins, I picked up a rod with a CT and a white jig head with a space guppy grub on about 30 inches of leader. When I had the time to spend working the CT, I seem to do pretty well when the bite was on. I kept having to go to the back and deal with either a strike or a blue fish on one of the rods we were trailing. I don't remember all the color combo's we tried on the grubs but I do remember trying the candy corn which seemed to work pretty well along with the space guppy. (You know the old story...If something ain't work'n do something different!!) If this doesn't answer your question... tell me to try again

Thanks for the info, I try some tomorrow at St. Marks.
my best luck with pinfish catching has been with the fishbites on
a subiki rig. My rule is if I can't catch pinfish, nothing else is biting.

Thanks again.