Spring Warrior Creek Oct. 25th-26th
Posted: October 27th, 2012, 9:28 pm
Despite the strong wind forcast and winds out of the East, my wife and I decided to give it a try. Had to wait until almost 9:00am Thursday morning to have enough water in Yates Creek to launch the little fourteen foot CS Marine with a 25hp Merc. Still too low to fire up in the creek, we had to use the trolling motor to get out to deeper water. Out in the bay, we were greeted with twelve to fifteen MPH East winds, gusting to eighteen, white caps, dark stained 71 degree water, and dead low tide held out and extra hour due to off shore winds howling.
Finally in twelve inches of water, I managed to get the boat up on plane and headed north to Spring Warrior. Set the boat down in four foot of very dark stained, rough water. Caught our bait (Pin Fish) fairly quickly, and threw out the first cut bait. A couple minutes at the most later, a twenty-six inch Red slammed into my wife's bait. (twenty-six-and-three-quarters to be exact.) Then a twenty-one-inch Red into mine.
For the next four hours the bite was continuous. Not a frenzy, but yet no flat spots in the pace. Definatly no flat spots in the waves. As the day wore on, the wind and waves got bigger. Fifteen MPH winds and two foot white caps are doubled when your in a fourteen foot flat bottom boat. The little rig did great though. Didn't sink, and floated high and dry in the rough water.
We ended up with ten Trout, with two well over twenty inches, four Red Fish, three Rock Bass, and two two Flounder. One of the Flounder was 23 inches. My wife also hooked the largest Blue Fish that in over fifty years of fishing I've ever seen. The dang thing cut her leader just as I started to dip it. She almost cried. Me too! We also kept three Gaff Top Catfish which we fried and ate that night. They were very tasty in case anyone wondered. We also had four lines cuts from, I presume Blue Fish.
We left the fish still biting three hours before low tide to make sure we would have enough water to get back into Yates Creek. When we got to the mouth, it was bone dry already. Had to wade to get up to the ramp. had a heck of a time getting the boat on the trailer. Got good and wet, wore out from fighting the waves, but had a great day on the water with my favorite fishing partner of 39 years.
Friday, we started out in worse wind, and waves than the day before. Tide was held out longer than Thursday. Fishing was also worse. We stayed around the mouth of Yates Creek most of the time in three to four foot. Ended up with one twenty-six inch Red, one twenty-six and a half inch Gator Trout, one nice Blue Fish, one small Spanish Mackerell, four very large Gaff Top Catfish, one three foot shark, and three Rock Bass. Only fished a couple hours. Caught everything both days on cut bait (Pin Fish.)
Finally in twelve inches of water, I managed to get the boat up on plane and headed north to Spring Warrior. Set the boat down in four foot of very dark stained, rough water. Caught our bait (Pin Fish) fairly quickly, and threw out the first cut bait. A couple minutes at the most later, a twenty-six inch Red slammed into my wife's bait. (twenty-six-and-three-quarters to be exact.) Then a twenty-one-inch Red into mine.
For the next four hours the bite was continuous. Not a frenzy, but yet no flat spots in the pace. Definatly no flat spots in the waves. As the day wore on, the wind and waves got bigger. Fifteen MPH winds and two foot white caps are doubled when your in a fourteen foot flat bottom boat. The little rig did great though. Didn't sink, and floated high and dry in the rough water.
We ended up with ten Trout, with two well over twenty inches, four Red Fish, three Rock Bass, and two two Flounder. One of the Flounder was 23 inches. My wife also hooked the largest Blue Fish that in over fifty years of fishing I've ever seen. The dang thing cut her leader just as I started to dip it. She almost cried. Me too! We also kept three Gaff Top Catfish which we fried and ate that night. They were very tasty in case anyone wondered. We also had four lines cuts from, I presume Blue Fish.
We left the fish still biting three hours before low tide to make sure we would have enough water to get back into Yates Creek. When we got to the mouth, it was bone dry already. Had to wade to get up to the ramp. had a heck of a time getting the boat on the trailer. Got good and wet, wore out from fighting the waves, but had a great day on the water with my favorite fishing partner of 39 years.
Friday, we started out in worse wind, and waves than the day before. Tide was held out longer than Thursday. Fishing was also worse. We stayed around the mouth of Yates Creek most of the time in three to four foot. Ended up with one twenty-six inch Red, one twenty-six and a half inch Gator Trout, one nice Blue Fish, one small Spanish Mackerell, four very large Gaff Top Catfish, one three foot shark, and three Rock Bass. Only fished a couple hours. Caught everything both days on cut bait (Pin Fish.)
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