St Marks 8/6 Fishing report: Red fish Revenge
Posted: August 7th, 2016, 11:58 am
I am back. After a long hiatus because of my business taking off, I will be writing weekly fishing reports again. It was a nice overcast day that started with a massive storm system 30 mile south. The storm system kept most of the blue bird boats off the water. The bird rack only had about 7 booze cruisers parked on the sand bar and the flats only had about 12 Grady White scalloping boats. There were many people fishing upriver near the marinas, one can only assume for "winter trout", but they were only catching gars and hard heads. Low tide was around noon, with a high tide at 5:30pm. We initially ran to the rock garden but the water was too low to hold fish so we backed out 4 miles to begin an inward drift. The water was clear and clean in this area as compared to the flats closer to the st marks river channel. We started our drift in about 8ft, and found fish when we reached 6ft. The small trout were grouped as they always are, and the larger trout were scattered. After drifting for an hour and half, we headed towards the shoreline as the water had risen considerably since then. We fished within 5 feet of the Spartina grass edge for the next couple of hours and boated several reds and some larger trout. We went into the small creek, but didnt find much of anything but pins and mullet. We left around 7pm with game fish feeding along the shoreline as everything exited the creeks. We used live shrimp, and silver dollar sized pins to catch our fish. We went with small pins, because the new gulps were tearing off while landing any fish and the shrimp were getting massacred by the pins and pig fish. Another good day at St Marks!
