St marks today 5/18
Posted: May 18th, 2016, 7:46 pm
Saw someone talking about no reports and since I have not been fishing much, figured I would post one since we got out today.
Monday was my Dad's 81st birthday and we wanted to take him for a fishing trip, so told him we would take him today. I wanted action, so we hit the flats for trout rather than a redfish trip. He had a great day. We caught trout and ladyfish all day long. Only 2 keepers in about 3.5 hours of fishing - lots and lots of 10-14 inch trout, more 12 than 14 though (we left when it started getting hot). We bounced around a lot from way east to right back in front of the lighthouse. Got in to pretty consistent bites at several stops. If they were tons of ladyfish or lots of shorts we moved. Our last stop produced the keepers, but the wind had died and Dad was getting hot so we did not repeat the drift. He caught three sharks, no size, but big enough to give him a good tug (all sharpnose). No cats all day, even with some cut bait drifting behind us. All fish were caught on jigs. Dad had Cajun thunder and jig with Gulp. We switched around a lot.
Monday was my Dad's 81st birthday and we wanted to take him for a fishing trip, so told him we would take him today. I wanted action, so we hit the flats for trout rather than a redfish trip. He had a great day. We caught trout and ladyfish all day long. Only 2 keepers in about 3.5 hours of fishing - lots and lots of 10-14 inch trout, more 12 than 14 though (we left when it started getting hot). We bounced around a lot from way east to right back in front of the lighthouse. Got in to pretty consistent bites at several stops. If they were tons of ladyfish or lots of shorts we moved. Our last stop produced the keepers, but the wind had died and Dad was getting hot so we did not repeat the drift. He caught three sharks, no size, but big enough to give him a good tug (all sharpnose). No cats all day, even with some cut bait drifting behind us. All fish were caught on jigs. Dad had Cajun thunder and jig with Gulp. We switched around a lot.