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Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 8th, 2009, 9:47 am
by Atticus
Put the boat in around 7:30. Put 4 fat trout in the boat before the tide bottomed out. My partner caught a nice 26" redfish on an Exude under a cork at dead low tide. After the tide started moving we got closer to the hill and boated 3 more upper slot reds. Not bad for a full moon, East wind holdiay weekend where you have to fish through the dead low tide at 9:30.
Had a big (4' across) spotted ray come out of the water and try to flop down on top of my Exude right next to the boat. That woke us all up. Saw several man sized spinners and numerous sea turtles out there. Floating grass was worse than normal and the water clarity was suspect but if you ran around you could find some decent looking water.
Sorry no pics. Working on getting a new digital camera.
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 8th, 2009, 10:31 am
by Flanders
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 8th, 2009, 12:31 pm
by Reel Cowboy
Nothing wrong with that report.
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 8th, 2009, 12:45 pm
by cmccord
Nicely Done.
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 8th, 2009, 1:57 pm
by 2true
Spinner? Shark?
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 8th, 2009, 4:26 pm
by Atticus
Yep "spinner" what my buddy kept calling the 4'+ blacktip sharks we saw in three different spots. Also we saw more than one big gar even where the water tasted nice and salty. Wierd. On the other hand - I have seen an otter out on the flats before so who knows what is really wierd.
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 8th, 2009, 5:42 pm
by Redbelly
Good trip
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 3:20 pm
by bcarver
Good work ! Curious though...what is "the hill" at Alligator Point ?
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 3:23 pm
by FMI
"The Hill" is redneck for land when you are on the water.
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 3:25 pm
by FMI
Atticus wrote:Yep "spinner" what my buddy kept calling the 4'+ blacktip sharks we saw in three different spots. Also we saw more than one big gar even where the water tasted nice and salty. Wierd. On the other hand - I have seen an otter out on the flats before so who knows what is really wierd.
Spinners and blacktips do look a lot alike... That said I haven't seen any spinners up this way myself.
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 3:34 pm
by bman
FMI wrote:"The Hill" is redneck for land when you are on the water.
Funny!
I am impressed a miami fan knew that...
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 3:52 pm
by FMI
What can I say... after living up here 5 going on 6 years ya gotta learn these things. Took me a few times to put 2 & 2 together though. Being an east coast boy "The humps", " The Hill", etc had to do with underwater topography not land.
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 10:03 pm
by Mook!
In south Florida it's called "la colina" I think. Thanks for the report Atticus. Now where are the huge snot cats?!?!?!
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 12th, 2009, 10:10 am
by Fishman
Re: Alligator Point 9-6-09
Posted: September 12th, 2009, 11:02 am
by FUTCHCAIRO
HEY MOOK, JUST PUT A RED HEADED AND WHITE BODY LUCKEY 13 AND CHUG IT REAL FAST AND YOU WILL FIND ALL THE SNOT CATS YOU CAN HANDLE, MIGHT PICK UP A RED OR TROUT WHILE CATCHING THE SNOT CAT.
PA THE OLD MAN