At the ramp we had a setback as the motor wouldn’t start due to it not being run for 3 months (pretty sorry I know….). Seems Cedar Key is just far enough away from where we live in Ponte Vedra to NOT make it over there as much as I would like. So we pulled out of the water and two hours later I had it going so we went back to the ramp and launched. It’s 10:45 am now and seas were still flat with no wind. On the way out we stopped just off the main channel/flat interface and tried a couple of quick throws for sand trout. First cast and a sandi came aboard. It was looking like it was gonna be a good day……from there we lost a few jigs to small Spanish and one shark which were on the flat as were ladyfish. After 20 minutes of that we picked back up and headed offshore.
Running out (Lake GOM)
At our sheepie destination there was another boat on the reef and upon asking, they didn’t mind if we anchored next to them (Thank You!). They were very nice about it and we all got along just great. Nice guys for sure!
On the first drop we knew the sheepies were there and they were hungry. The current was moving with the full moon but despite that our fiddlers on the bottom had a life expectancy from 5 – 10 seconds and it was on. They were even hitting it on the drop. A few small grouper were mixed in with them being released. We threw back a ton of smaller sheepies and played with them for almost two hours. It was a great bite.
At one point a seahorse floated by and Casey casted over it and it grabbed his line with its tail. Pretty cool.
Seahorse (Hippocampus genus)
Short shank sheepie jig
Small fish released
Orthodontist nightmare
On account of our small cooler we stringered our sheepies as we caught them and just kept them alive in the water.
Plan B
That is until two 6 foot sharks showed up swimming quick little circles behind the transom, with one being a tiger shark. From there we pulled the fish out of the water, took a couple of photos and stuck em in the cooler.
Nice stringer
Barely fit
Iced down
The charks show up around slack tide and the bite was slowing down significantly so we packed up and headed inshore to try the trout flats. Once on the flats on a falling tide in 3.5 – 5.5 feet we found trout on the first drift. In the next hour we caught quite a few trout keeping only nine from 16 – 19 inches. Our drifts were of short duration in the “zone” so I didn’t take many trout photos. With a pile of fish to clean we headed back in early.
A couple of representative trout
That was a heck of a lot of fun with the kids! Gotta love Cedar Key in the Spring!
Hoo Yah!!
Brian
Very nice mess of fish and great report 
