St Marks 11/ 18 & 19
Posted: November 19th, 2004, 8:05 pm
Put in at Shell Island yesterday morning about 6:30 and headed east down to the rock garden area...It was very cool all the way down ! Water temp was about 60 degrees....fluctuated between 60 and 64 most of the day..
Started throwing sws's under a ct but it was slow to begin with..After sun got up I threw a she dog for awhile....had one rise and it was halfhearted..
It was probably 9 before I put a short in the boat ..Between then and 11 I caught three that were barely keepers and several more shorts...About 11 it calmed down to glass slick....Put a stretch on a 3/0 and headed to spot east of St Marks reef....drug the stretch for bout 5 gallons of gas and didn't even catch grass ! woulda thought maybe a black bass or something...
Went back inshore around 1:30 and still slick..In fact, was like that till quitting time....Stopped outside rock garden again and started picking up shorts and finally two more keepers before heading in.. All I kept between 15 and 17 inches...Water stayed low till a pretty good time after what was supposed to be low tide....I found a rock or something in a place I thought was clean bottom.....About 3/4 a mile west of Black Rock...Bent two blades on my prop but didnt scar it up like it usually does when you hit a rock....With a pair of channel locks and a cresant wrench I got them pretty well straightened out...enough to go back out this morning.....my gift to myself for Christmas is gonna be a new prop !
Waited a little later this morning to go out...Didn't leave Shell Island till around 7:30...Lots warmer than yesterday.Went back to same area and started getting some hits on swa's right off the bat...Then wind moved out of the due east and everything stopped....Fished till about 10 and wind moved around and started coming of the ESE..Bite started in earnest then....From then till about 2 it was very good....Caught a lot of shorts but kept a limit of keepers and probably threw back 15 or more fish over 15 inches...Again everything was between 15 and 18 inches...Nothing real big..When the little rain shower started about 1:15 it was a hit every cast..if one missed it , all you had to do was pop the cork and another one would hit...this lasted till I decided to head in bout 2....All in all, it was a very good day.....
Started throwing sws's under a ct but it was slow to begin with..After sun got up I threw a she dog for awhile....had one rise and it was halfhearted..
It was probably 9 before I put a short in the boat ..Between then and 11 I caught three that were barely keepers and several more shorts...About 11 it calmed down to glass slick....Put a stretch on a 3/0 and headed to spot east of St Marks reef....drug the stretch for bout 5 gallons of gas and didn't even catch grass ! woulda thought maybe a black bass or something...
Went back inshore around 1:30 and still slick..In fact, was like that till quitting time....Stopped outside rock garden again and started picking up shorts and finally two more keepers before heading in.. All I kept between 15 and 17 inches...Water stayed low till a pretty good time after what was supposed to be low tide....I found a rock or something in a place I thought was clean bottom.....About 3/4 a mile west of Black Rock...Bent two blades on my prop but didnt scar it up like it usually does when you hit a rock....With a pair of channel locks and a cresant wrench I got them pretty well straightened out...enough to go back out this morning.....my gift to myself for Christmas is gonna be a new prop !
Waited a little later this morning to go out...Didn't leave Shell Island till around 7:30...Lots warmer than yesterday.Went back to same area and started getting some hits on swa's right off the bat...Then wind moved out of the due east and everything stopped....Fished till about 10 and wind moved around and started coming of the ESE..Bite started in earnest then....From then till about 2 it was very good....Caught a lot of shorts but kept a limit of keepers and probably threw back 15 or more fish over 15 inches...Again everything was between 15 and 18 inches...Nothing real big..When the little rain shower started about 1:15 it was a hit every cast..if one missed it , all you had to do was pop the cork and another one would hit...this lasted till I decided to head in bout 2....All in all, it was a very good day.....
I say that in a nice way 
I guess I shoulda stayed out there 
Ya gone damn good 
