Keaton Beach 3-13-04
Posted: March 15th, 2004, 9:12 am
Great day on the water with my wife. Sorry day for catching Trout in my boat. 
One of those "If only I'd had" days. Got a late start. Got to the ramp about 6:45am. Wind was 15-20. Air temp was 45 degrees. Surface temp in the canal was 60 degrees. The boats at the ramp were wall to wall. Got to meet Jim R and saw ds. ds looked kinda busy so I left him alone and headed to the marina to buy my wife a licence and a few shrimp for her to fish with. Must have been 15 people in the licence line and 30 in the shrimp line already, the other 300 people inside the marina were just milling around.
40 minutes later and with no shrimp in hand we were on our way out the channel and headed north up the coast. By this time the wind had really started blowing. It was a long wet ride to say the least.
Wife could not catch a pinfish and I got my first bite at 11:00am, a 19 inch speck. Then nothing again intil 1:30pm. One of those wild school of Macks came through and cleaned out both of us in about 10 seconds.
Moved further South about 3:00pm. Caught a few shorts and one about 17 inches. Wife finally caught 4 Pinfish and we set two lives under CT and had two cutbait out on bottom. Another school of Spainish came through and cut three of the #25 Flouracarbon leaders. Then was gone again just that fast. Fished till 4:30, then went back and fought the crowd at the ramp again for another hour. Found out a lot of Trout were caught by folks anchoring down and fishing with live shrimp. (I didn't want to wait in that line too)
Had a great time and wife and I ate a fine Trout dinner back at the camper Sat. night.
One of those "If only I'd had" days. Got a late start. Got to the ramp about 6:45am. Wind was 15-20. Air temp was 45 degrees. Surface temp in the canal was 60 degrees. The boats at the ramp were wall to wall. Got to meet Jim R and saw ds. ds looked kinda busy so I left him alone and headed to the marina to buy my wife a licence and a few shrimp for her to fish with. Must have been 15 people in the licence line and 30 in the shrimp line already, the other 300 people inside the marina were just milling around.40 minutes later and with no shrimp in hand we were on our way out the channel and headed north up the coast. By this time the wind had really started blowing. It was a long wet ride to say the least.
Wife could not catch a pinfish and I got my first bite at 11:00am, a 19 inch speck. Then nothing again intil 1:30pm. One of those wild school of Macks came through and cleaned out both of us in about 10 seconds.
Moved further South about 3:00pm. Caught a few shorts and one about 17 inches. Wife finally caught 4 Pinfish and we set two lives under CT and had two cutbait out on bottom. Another school of Spainish came through and cut three of the #25 Flouracarbon leaders. Then was gone again just that fast. Fished till 4:30, then went back and fought the crowd at the ramp again for another hour. Found out a lot of Trout were caught by folks anchoring down and fishing with live shrimp. (I didn't want to wait in that line too)
Had a great time and wife and I ate a fine Trout dinner back at the camper Sat. night.
Hey no bother if you would have stopped, could not imagine waiting in the lift line, it was worse than the ramp.