Trouttrent at Fenholloway 11-29-09
Posted: November 29th, 2009, 6:42 pm
Trouttrent called and asked if I would fish the final TeamSeatrout tournament with him today.
I told him I would and met him at 5:30 this morning to head out. We hooked up the boat and had no tail lights. I told him if we could make it to Wakulla County that they did not require tail lights. So we took off. Down the road he found out we had brake lights and turn lights. I figure we are good to go.
At Jerrys Bait and Tackle he pulls out the book on his truck to look up the fuse array. He is convinced it is a bad fuse.
Sure enough a fuse is blown. It gets replaced and we have tail lights.
We get just past the Econfina road going to Fenholloway and we see lights bouncing off the road. We pull over. Can't find any duct tape so we use a piece of wire to tie the light to the trailer and head on to Fenholloway.
A quick stop at Rockys for a breakfast sandwich and talk with Junior Dice we head on down to the lower ramp.
The lower ramp is out of the water. We manage to launch behind a Alabama boat. On the way out the river the Alabama boat runs aground. We have no choice but to shut down and idle. We pull off to the right and start fishing. We fish on for about a mile with several blowups on topwater. TT finally hooks up with a nice 19 1/2 inch trout.
We fish on for awhile with no luck. I suggest we go to a spot that Ashley Mock and I used to catch good fish. As soon as we get there I put a over 20 trout in the boat. TT is on the bow running the trolling and starts seeing trout and flounder everywhere.
We hunker down and start fishing hard at trout chasing glass minnows. A couple flounder and redfish later we hook up with more nice trout. By now we have 2 over 20 trout in the box and release 5 over 20.
The bit slows on this hole so we move on down the bay.
The next stop nets us more keepers all over 19 inches with a couple over 20.
By now our time is running out and we need to think about heading back. We fish a few of Trouttrents spots on the way back with no luck.
The weather today was perfect with a slight breeze from East to Southeast barely putting a ripple on the water.
Back at Jerrys Bait and Tackle we weighed Big Trout and First Place Trout at 13 plus pounds.
I told him I would and met him at 5:30 this morning to head out. We hooked up the boat and had no tail lights. I told him if we could make it to Wakulla County that they did not require tail lights. So we took off. Down the road he found out we had brake lights and turn lights. I figure we are good to go.
At Jerrys Bait and Tackle he pulls out the book on his truck to look up the fuse array. He is convinced it is a bad fuse.
Sure enough a fuse is blown. It gets replaced and we have tail lights.
We get just past the Econfina road going to Fenholloway and we see lights bouncing off the road. We pull over. Can't find any duct tape so we use a piece of wire to tie the light to the trailer and head on to Fenholloway.
A quick stop at Rockys for a breakfast sandwich and talk with Junior Dice we head on down to the lower ramp.
The lower ramp is out of the water. We manage to launch behind a Alabama boat. On the way out the river the Alabama boat runs aground. We have no choice but to shut down and idle. We pull off to the right and start fishing. We fish on for about a mile with several blowups on topwater. TT finally hooks up with a nice 19 1/2 inch trout.
We fish on for awhile with no luck. I suggest we go to a spot that Ashley Mock and I used to catch good fish. As soon as we get there I put a over 20 trout in the boat. TT is on the bow running the trolling and starts seeing trout and flounder everywhere.
We hunker down and start fishing hard at trout chasing glass minnows. A couple flounder and redfish later we hook up with more nice trout. By now we have 2 over 20 trout in the box and release 5 over 20.
The bit slows on this hole so we move on down the bay.
The next stop nets us more keepers all over 19 inches with a couple over 20.
By now our time is running out and we need to think about heading back. We fish a few of Trouttrents spots on the way back with no luck.
The weather today was perfect with a slight breeze from East to Southeast barely putting a ripple on the water.
Back at Jerrys Bait and Tackle we weighed Big Trout and First Place Trout at 13 plus pounds.
They don't have anything on them so no need going back there. Thanks Steve, I had a great time fishing your holes can't wait to get back out there. You forgot to tell about the fish'n Pigeon 
