BigBendFishing.Net

I haven't figured out where it is. Any help would be appreciated.

Ive been hairy situations finding myself trapped in low tide....but Im sure theres more to the story ???

I have been told over and over it is just in front of Alligator Point, across from where the KOA campground is.

I have a poster of an infrared photo taken by satellite of the whole Apalachicola Bay Basin, and you can see this long, feathered area extending straight out from the Point there, NOT parellel but perpendicular to the Point.

Are you going to try to ride a tarpon in your 'yak, lit?

Maybe you can describe it useing this as a referance Aucilla
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t ... 8&z=16&w=2

wevans wrote:Maybe you can describe it useing this as a referance Aucilla
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t ... 8&z=16&w=2

My understanding of Mud Cove's location is a bit different than Aucilla's (but there is a huge likelihood that I am wrong). As far as I know, Mud Cove is just to the west of the big "sand bar" sticking out to the far east of that picture. I've gone shrimping with Captain Vic Davis a few times, and our original plan has always been Mud Cove. We always ended up just west of what I think to be the Turkey Point shoals. (Which I assume to be the big sandbar sticking out about 7/8's of the way to the west.)

Again, I could be wrong. I'm *terrible* at converting locations that I know to to areal photos. Take me somewhere once and I can find my way back every time if I have landmarks, but give me a terraserver map and I'm lost.

If the area I'm talking about has another name, someone chime in and let me know.


Wil

Wil:

Turkey Point Shoals is off of Turkey Point, on the mainland, just off of the FSU Marine Lab. Mud Cove is an indefinite area roughly offshore of the KOA Campground, on Alligator Point. It is not much of a "cove", just an area of shallow bottom that tends to hold bait in the summer, along with tarpon and sharks, when the bait is in.

If you follow Alligator Point to its terminus above mean high water, there is a shoal that goes north, almost to the shoreline of St. Teresa. This is called on the nav. chart, Bay Mouth Bar. The bar does have a (mostly) navigable channel, marked by day markers, from the Alligator Point marina and around the point.

I have never shrimped the area, but those are the land forms.

EJ

wevens,
Didn't nobody ever say you weren't da man!

Cool website of the week!

The picture I have is a poster made by infrared cameras on a satellite, and it shows stuff not visible to the nekkkid eye. You can see Dog Is. Reef, Turkey Point Shoal, and this long thing that I guess is a shallow or maybe warmer area extending straight out from where EJ said. l can't see the tarpon on there, though.

I have never had the 13'er around there. It just never seems smooth enough or attractive enough. I have had her all around Turkey Point and over into the Bay or Harbor [Alligator], but never completely out of the Oclochonee River, around Bald Point. Like I said, it just seems too rough or something.

Maybe you can describe it useing this as a referance Aucilla
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t ... 8&z=16&w=2

Dang Wevans- you thread robber
That is a jewel of a website. You could have started your own
thread with that

MJ

Thanks all, I think I got it.
I do plan to catch tarpon there out of my kayak but my quest here is about shrimp.

I was down there this weekend trying to find some shrimp but now I see I was in the wrong spot. I was at the sandy area on the map. How do you get down to the beach to access mud cove? The only area I saw where you could would have been right in fronm of the KOA but it seemed there was a lot of rocks in the water there that would do some damamge to a cast net. So is there another beach access area between the KOA and the sandy area? Or do you have to just walk from one end or the other?

I did stop at the bridge on the way back and caught a few mullet and some pinfish.

This may give ya'll a little more encouragement
http://outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com/zerothread?id=260425

grabbin'
Saw Capt. [cousin?] Vic Davis give a talk and he said he wades out from the beach on the road to Bald Point. He said it is all built up with houses so he just approaches an owner he sees and asks if he can cut through. I don't know much else about it 'cept he waded out. But you're right>that area we've been referring to as Mud Cove doesn't look like a beach.
aucilla

wevans I saw that post and went out sunday to see if I could run into chum bucket and maybe a fe shrimp. No sign of chum bucket and I only caught 22 shrimp lol