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Decided to fish with my two best friends today, one of whom which is in town for a week for the holiday. We looked at the radar this morning and saw the big blob was east and decided an early start was the way to go. We pushed away from shell island fish camp at 730am to a brisk 20 knot North wind. Went up the St. Marks and fished north of shields within 1/2 a mile all day. We fish hard all day and were rewarded nicely. Every hole we saw deeper than 12 foot had fish. The bite was very tide dependent today. If it wasn't moving, they weren't hitting. We fished jigs/gulp/live shrimp all day. I think we saw tallykenj and there awesome pontoon boat out there today too. We ended up catching over 100 fish easily. We took home 35 sand trout over btween 12-17" (threw back twice that), 3 Speckled Trout to 20", 3 big whiting, 2 mid slot Redfish and 1 big flounder. We all had a blast and cant wait to do it again.
Final Tally:
35 Sand Trout
3 Speckled Trout
3 whiting
2 Slot Redfish
1 Flounder
-Tight Lines

My 3rd cast of the morning...

Jeremy and a 20" Spec

Fine dining soon to follow

Final catch on the day....

Thanks for the report. We wanted to go fishing but didn't because of the wind forecast. A nice mess of fish!

Great mess of fish in there ! Good Job!
Them sand trout

Sweet! Nice haul, me and wife are gonna take the pontoon out there tomorrow, hope we can get into like that to

Yep, we were out there. Got a late start, so I think we missed the best catching of the day, but still caught some fish. It was WINDY!!! Great bunch of fish you all caught!

Nice catching!!!

What did you catch them on?

Hit-n-miss: Shrimp, gulps, curly tail jigs...equal amount on everything...

Jhults11 wrote:Hit-n-miss: Shrimp, gulps, curly tail jigs...equal amount on everything...

I did the river thing in jan once with shrimp. But we caught sandtrout that were only 8-10"s long. Did you anchor or troll the holes. I dont have a trolling moter.

Hit-n-Miss wrote:

Jhults11 wrote:Hit-n-miss: Shrimp, gulps, curly tail jigs...equal amount on everything...

I did the river thing in jan once with shrimp. But we caught sandtrout that were only 8-10"s long. Did you anchor or troll the holes. I dont have a trolling moter.

We anchored on the side of the river near the hole and casted back into the hole. The sand trout were killing anything we threw..shrimp, gulp, swa, surketch jigs, it didnt matter theyd hit it. We usually get small sand trout in the winter but for some reason this year they are on the larger size...average fish in 13-14' with some 17"ers in the mix. Good luck with it

Nice job. We had a good time, too.

DANG---you didnt go fishin-- you had a day of CATCHIN'
nice slam-------

Jhults11 wrote:

Hit-n-Miss wrote:

Jhults11 wrote:Hit-n-miss: Shrimp, gulps, curly tail jigs...equal amount on everything...

I did the river thing in jan once with shrimp. But we caught sandtrout that were only 8-10"s long. Did you anchor or troll the holes. I dont have a trolling moter.

We anchored on the side of the river near the hole and casted back into the hole. The sand trout were killing anything we threw..shrimp, gulp, swa, surketch jigs, it didnt matter theyd hit it. We usually get small sand trout in the winter but for some reason this year they are on the larger size...average fish in 13-14' with some 17"ers in the mix. Good luck with it

Thanks for the info.