St. Marks Rock Bass/Flounder 12-4
Posted: December 5th, 2014, 10:14 am
Ran out of the Lighthouse yesterday looking to get hooked up with some rock bass at a few holes we have in 10-12 feet of water south of the flats. The bass were there in great numbers a couple weeks ago, but they were long gone yesterday. Fishing the falling tide, we caught one or two short bass near the stake line. Caught a couple of keepers at 15' deep out of the Aucilla River.
The water was wicked calm, so we cruised out to Dog Ballard on a whim, and finally found the mess of rock bass we were looking for. Caught a half dozen keepers in about 30 minutes, then firewalled the creek boat and raced the sunset back to the lighthouse. Never did catch any flounder, but I felt a couple suspect bites while bucktailing Dog Ballard Reef.
I heard the flounder are piling up at nearshore wrecks at PCB and Mexico Beach. Going to try out St. Marks Reef and maybe Rotary in the next couple days to see if they're doing something similar here. This hot/cold weather is confusing to me. I'm sure it's confusing the fish too. At this rate, it will be spring before it's winter.
The water was wicked calm, so we cruised out to Dog Ballard on a whim, and finally found the mess of rock bass we were looking for. Caught a half dozen keepers in about 30 minutes, then firewalled the creek boat and raced the sunset back to the lighthouse. Never did catch any flounder, but I felt a couple suspect bites while bucktailing Dog Ballard Reef.
I heard the flounder are piling up at nearshore wrecks at PCB and Mexico Beach. Going to try out St. Marks Reef and maybe Rotary in the next couple days to see if they're doing something similar here. This hot/cold weather is confusing to me. I'm sure it's confusing the fish too. At this rate, it will be spring before it's winter.
. Congrats on the day. Slick calm seas to say the least. Nice work