ECONFINA 3-24
Posted: March 25th, 2004, 1:46 am
This was by far one of the best days I have ever spent on the flats. I decided to take the day off and spend it with my dad and son...the son is out of school for Spring Break and dad is now retired. I spent this past Saturday at St. Marks, but today I had the entire day so we decided to hit the Econfina. My hats off to whoever made it happen to finally widen the road!!!! Anyhow, with a late morning low tide, we arrived at the ramp at 11:30.
We headed on out and went east. We stopped around 12:00 and immediately the bite was on. At 12:50 we had 5 keeper trout in the cooler and only 2 shorts (14.5" by the way). My dad caught the first 3 keepers using frozen shrimp under a CT. I caught the other 2 using a split tail green curly tail with a red jig head. They gave this jig a fit all day. The closer we stayed to the crab traps, the better the bite. We made 3 drifts throughout the day and caught fish consistently till 4:00. Later on in the afternoon, I decided to try this double jig setup consisting of 2 green grubs with 1/4 oz. orange lead heads. In 1/2 hour I caught 4 keeper trout and missed about as many. The spanish loved it too. I was catching them 2 at a time with it! At one point, even a HUGE trout followed 2 hooked spanish all the way to the boat before turning away! The trout also seemed to like a DOA shrimp under a CT. I threw a variety of grubs at them today and they seemed to like them all. The most popular were the electric chicken, green curly tail and a 4" green shrimp body with a orange head...all fished with a 3/8 oz. red jig head.
TOTAL FOR THE DAY: 18 TROUT (16-19") AND A HANDFUL OF VARIOUS SIZED SPANISH.
We ended up with 18 trout (3 over our limit) because my 9 year old was the one counting. He said he counted 15 but 3 more mysteriously appeared at the final count at home. Go figure. Luckily, we had the entire place to ourselves today and only saw one other boat on our way in.....and it wasn't the man! The conditions were perfect today.....light cool breeze, lots of sunshine and lots of action. I plan to do it all again on Saturday.
We headed on out and went east. We stopped around 12:00 and immediately the bite was on. At 12:50 we had 5 keeper trout in the cooler and only 2 shorts (14.5" by the way). My dad caught the first 3 keepers using frozen shrimp under a CT. I caught the other 2 using a split tail green curly tail with a red jig head. They gave this jig a fit all day. The closer we stayed to the crab traps, the better the bite. We made 3 drifts throughout the day and caught fish consistently till 4:00. Later on in the afternoon, I decided to try this double jig setup consisting of 2 green grubs with 1/4 oz. orange lead heads. In 1/2 hour I caught 4 keeper trout and missed about as many. The spanish loved it too. I was catching them 2 at a time with it! At one point, even a HUGE trout followed 2 hooked spanish all the way to the boat before turning away! The trout also seemed to like a DOA shrimp under a CT. I threw a variety of grubs at them today and they seemed to like them all. The most popular were the electric chicken, green curly tail and a 4" green shrimp body with a orange head...all fished with a 3/8 oz. red jig head.
TOTAL FOR THE DAY: 18 TROUT (16-19") AND A HANDFUL OF VARIOUS SIZED SPANISH.
We ended up with 18 trout (3 over our limit) because my 9 year old was the one counting. He said he counted 15 but 3 more mysteriously appeared at the final count at home. Go figure. Luckily, we had the entire place to ourselves today and only saw one other boat on our way in.....and it wasn't the man! The conditions were perfect today.....light cool breeze, lots of sunshine and lots of action. I plan to do it all again on Saturday.
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....Glad you spent some quality time with your family.. 
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