St. Marks 8/7

[juan sapatos]

Fished Saturday morning. Step 1: castnet 2 dozen or so finger mullet. Plan A was to work the rising tide around oyster bars for redfish then Plan B, go deep and look for Spanish. Plan A worked except the takers were trout . 3 keepers, 2 over 20 inches (two anglers). 2 trout were caught on a suspending plug, one on a live mullet. No redfish. After an hour or so we ran to about 8-10 feet and right on cue found a pod tearing it up on top. Kept three Spanish. Blue fish and skipjacks mixed in along with a 5 foot bull shark. Off the water before 12:30. Big fun.

[Sir reel]

Sounds good to me! Thanks for the repot.

If you don't mind sharing, how do you rig the live finger mullet when fishing around the bars? Egg sinker with leader, free lined, under a float, etc.

[juan sapatos]

I was using a weighted hook that is designed to rig a soft-bait weedless. Sort of like a very light (1/32, Ithink) jig head. I don't think the baits were getting very deep, though which may explain why we got trout and not redfish.

[Sir reel]

Thanks.

hook'n em through the tail, dorsal, nose,??

[juan sapatos]

I always hook mullet through the lower jaw and nose. They stay alive a long time that way and you can work them a little bit. It is easy to throw them off though.