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Hi Everyone,

I put my little jonboat in at the lighthouse at about 9:15 and headed over to the rock garden. It was a beautiful, still morning as the fog cleared off the bay and the trout were hitting the surface. I whipped out my chug bug (dark on top, light on bottom) and immediately caught a nice 18" speck. I was on a nice slow drift that was pushing me out the channel, and within an hour I caught more than my limit, all between 17-19 inches. I threw them all back. No cats and one ladyfish. After a while I decided to try to catch my limit in redfish. I worked the bar right in front of the lighthouse with shrimp under a ct and immediately hooked into a nice big red - I could see the spot. As I was fiddling around for my net he broke my damn wire leader, and swam away smiling.

Then I almost got my little jonboat caught at the entrance to the channel on the low tide coming back into the lighthouse. Forgot about that.

The water didn't seem too dark to me, but I haven't been out since before the storms, so I don't know how dark it has been recently. Not much grass on the surface at all.

-Bill

Outstanding

Good fishing Dr. Bet you enjoyed the heck out of it. Thanks for the report.

HI DOC, GLAD YA FOUND THEM, THAT CHUG BUG IS A GOOD PLUG, BEEN USING THEM FOR ABOUT 5 YRS. THEY GENERALLY PRODUCE. WE GONNA BE THERE IN THE MORNING.
PA

St. Marks seems to be the place to go right now. The water must be clearer or something, it's sure not been clear in some of the other spots.
We talked to a lady over at Keaton that said her brother the shrimper barely caught enough to bring to the dock right after the last storm. If the shrimp aren't there, maybe the trout aren't either? Maybe there's shrimp over near St. Marks.

Great report! Thanks!

Good report, Doc. Sounds like things are picking up.