Keaton Beach, 7/24-26
Posted: July 26th, 2009, 7:55 pm
Fished inshore out of Keaton Beach from Friday-Sunday morning. Picked up a fair number of trout, the bite came and went with the tide and the winds. We also picked up a nice red and some spanish. The winds were not very cooperative on Saturday or Sunday, it was near dead calm (except when the storm rolled through on Saturday). We had a pretty good bite on the first part of the falling and the first part of the rising. Water temps were from 82-85, clarity pretty stained where we fished north of the channel. We found trout anywhere from 4 to 7.5'. We also tried some scalloping, but I don't have the patience to collect a limit with as scarce as the appear to be right now around Keaton. Hope to add some pics tomorrow, I'm wore out.
A few pics from the trip:
Paul with a nice slot red.
Me with a trout we picked up in 4'
Artie with a 30" Spanish we picked up out in 7.5'. We owed them one after being cut off about a dozen times.
A few pics from the trip:
Paul with a nice slot red.
Me with a trout we picked up in 4'
Artie with a 30" Spanish we picked up out in 7.5'. We owed them one after being cut off about a dozen times.
I think a person could pick up some nice Spanish right now if they wanted to target them. I'd take that as a sign that there are more bait fish around, although we still didn't see a lot of surface activity. Also saw a lot of sea turtles, not sure what that is a sign of, haven't seen that many around before. Maybe they are chasin scallopers 