St. Marks - Thursday, March 11
Posted: March 14th, 2004, 10:59 am
Hi Folks,
FSU was on spring break last week and I found myself writing an article on one of the most beautiful mornings of the year. We were in my truck headed for the lighthouse by 10 am. When we stopped in at Jerry's Scott looked at a timetable and said the bite should really pick up at "2:56 pm" - remember this. We got to the lighthouse and were rolling out by about 11 am.
It was nice and still - too still? And we worked the flats right off the lighthouse to the east of the channel. Nothing.
Then at about 1 we headed over to the rock garden and worked from inside the inner pole out to the big marker. A couple bites, but no fish in the boat.
Then about 3 they really started biting just to the west of the inner pole of the rock garden. We ended up with four keepers before the wind started beating us silly and the fish stopped biting.
In contrast to last Sunday when we caught a bunch of shorts, this time just about every fish was 14-18 inches. Interestingly, nothing but trout.
So the bite did seem to be related to the time Scott told me. There was a 3.7 high tide at 4:13 pm that day. Is this just based on the tide coming in? Or is there some magic book I don't know about?
I've never been one much for 'forecasting' where the fish are going to be biting, and my schedule usually forces me to get out when I can. But this was sorta eery. Anyone know more about this?
FSU was on spring break last week and I found myself writing an article on one of the most beautiful mornings of the year. We were in my truck headed for the lighthouse by 10 am. When we stopped in at Jerry's Scott looked at a timetable and said the bite should really pick up at "2:56 pm" - remember this. We got to the lighthouse and were rolling out by about 11 am.
It was nice and still - too still? And we worked the flats right off the lighthouse to the east of the channel. Nothing.
Then at about 1 we headed over to the rock garden and worked from inside the inner pole out to the big marker. A couple bites, but no fish in the boat.
Then about 3 they really started biting just to the west of the inner pole of the rock garden. We ended up with four keepers before the wind started beating us silly and the fish stopped biting.
In contrast to last Sunday when we caught a bunch of shorts, this time just about every fish was 14-18 inches. Interestingly, nothing but trout.
So the bite did seem to be related to the time Scott told me. There was a 3.7 high tide at 4:13 pm that day. Is this just based on the tide coming in? Or is there some magic book I don't know about?
I've never been one much for 'forecasting' where the fish are going to be biting, and my schedule usually forces me to get out when I can. But this was sorta eery. Anyone know more about this?
The Soluner Tables are very accurate in their predictions 
Still gives you a time to have your best chance to catch something