A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
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Well.....when your #2(with your reporting)...ya gota try harder... sure felt good to get the Carolina Skiff back on the water after almost 2 1/2 months! Took off yesterday afternoon with my Son and got on the water around 1:30 from the light house (don't know if that had anything to do with TC losing his bite about the same time! ) Rode East and started drifting. My Son was using a white grub with a pink tail and I used every other color. He by far caught more fish than any color I tried. Greens, Candy Corn, Yellow's, etc. all would catch once in a while but the white grub was the best producer. All under CT's with 18 to 20 inch leader and tipped with Fish Bites. We caught lots of short's, some large cat's, even pins... the fish seem hungry when your in them. We caught 3 legal trout 16 -17 inchers. One note...the trout were all but empty in their stomachs. Most of our fish came in the 4 1/2 - 5 ft depth at high tide. Wind wasn't bad at first but started blowing harder the later it got. I had figured it would maybe lay down but it never did for us. Off the water about 5:30. Everything worked after the extended down time
Last edited by Sir reel on September 29th, 2004, 11:11 am, edited 1 time in total.
"Good Judgement" comes from experience, ... and a lot of that..... results from "Bad Judgement".
It sure is nice ta start hearing reports again we all need ta get on the water and see if we remember how ta catch a fish
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
Thanks for the report!
"The trout were all but empty in their stomachs". With all the food out there that's surprising. Thanks for looking. It's always an interesting thing to do. The white grub (vs others) was what worked for me in St Joe. That ought to make sense given all the white bait around.
Of all the reports I read from over thataway.....many shorts and 3 keepers keep being reported. I went last Friday to Aucilla and wound up over in the area you reported. We got 10 shorts...and 3 keepers....all on C/T with green jigs being the best.
When the 3 keepers were cleaned....nothing in their bellies.
Took off yesterday afternoon with my Son and got on the water around 1:30 from the light house (don't know if that had anything to do with TC losing his bite about the same time! 
