St Marks 6/19: An early father's day present
Posted: June 19th, 2020, 10:24 pm
For father's day this year I took my dad flats fishing at St Marks, to give you an idea how long it's been since he's been inshore fishing seriously, Black Sea bass had no limit. We left bright and and early at 5 to head to the lighthouse with a great weather report since he has issues with vertigo and I wanted it smooth. It was perfect, not glass, just enough chop to excite the fish into biting. The first stop in the rock garden was promising with 3 straight blowups on my poppa mullet and one trout that was painfully close to 15. A change of pace for the day was the fact that we got into a school of puffers in the mouth of a creek behind sundowner rock and they had lockjaw, we only caught one puffer all day. It didn't matter though we ended up with 9 keepers with the biggest 18.5in and had a great time. The fish seemed to be pretty spooky and all of the keepers came from between 3.5 to 4.5 on the ole trout tricks in sexy mullet and fried chicken. Number 10 eluded us for the day with our last two trout falling just short of 15. Fun day with pops and I got to break in my new edge rod as well.
