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Spring Creek 10/24

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 10:17 am
by eat_mo_crawfish
Four of us (including Tailspotspotter) headed out of Spring Creek early Sunday mornng to find some grouper. On the way out, we stopped in about 25 feet to get some live bait.

We never left the "bait" spot.

Sabiki goes down, triggerfish. And another. And another. What the heck, let's drop the grouper lines. Bam. Bam. TSSpotter has two keepers in the box. The action was hit and miss, but never off long enough for us to leave. We ended up with 8 grouper, three of 'em going over 15 lbs, a mess of triggers, two doormat flouders, and a big 'ol spannie just for good measure. We got cut off a couple of times on what we guess were kings. I hooked a cobe that I couldn't even turn, and my buddy hooked one on the sabiki (you know how that very short story ends). Great day on the water.

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 10:20 am
by GC
Man!! Now that's a fishing trip!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 10:25 am
by mjsigns
WOW !

Thats my kind of trip. :thumbup:

How far out did you have to go to get to 25' depths?

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 10:35 am
by Chalk
Nice......IF there's bait there's fish..... :thumbup: :thumbup:

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 10:51 am
by Aucilla
JEEEEZZZ! That was great! My kinda trip too! Man, looks like the bite is ON! Good job!

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 11:53 am
by eat_mo_crawfish
I wasn't paying close attention to distances or the GPS (I was guarding the beer from TSS), but I believe we were about 9 miles out. We could still see shore on the horizon.

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 12:45 pm
by Sir reel
OUTSTANDING

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 1:06 pm
by dstockwell
Very Nice. :thumbup: :thumbup:

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 3:10 pm
by Cranfield
Thats what you call a nice suprise. :thumbup:

Is it the recent storms that have blown the fish inshore, or is it a seasonal thing ?

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 3:16 pm
by Second Chance
Great report. Thanks :thumbup:

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 7:41 pm
by tin can
Sure am glad to hear they're out there. Thanks or the report.

Posted: October 26th, 2004, 8:23 pm
by wevans
SWEET, very sweet :thumbup: :thumbup: :beer:

Posted: October 27th, 2004, 10:11 am
by CSMarine
Excellent :thumbup: :thumbup:

Posted: October 27th, 2004, 10:22 am
by DWilliams
Thanks for the report eat_mo! Did you notice if the trolling was a possibility or the grass was too bad?

Posted: October 27th, 2004, 12:22 pm
by eat_mo_crawfish
The grass looked fairly thick. We trolled a little on the way in and had moderate problems with it.