St. Marks 12/4/04

Post by **mjsigns** » December 5th, 2004, 9:39 am

Mako was freed himself from his family to join me in the TC-II for an afternoon fishing trip. We put in at the Lighthouse at 12:20pm on a 2X dead-low tide. The channel was so shallow, we had to tip-toe out of the landing channel, digging my own channel into the mud about 5 times before we reached the jetty. Channel depth in dead center was less than 18â€

Post by **Aucilla** » December 5th, 2004, 11:01 am

Great report and some awesome pix! Yep, that has got to be a the lowest I've ever seen it! And you got an "offshore" report out of it!

Post by **qoutrage** » December 5th, 2004, 11:54 am

Looks like you guys had a pretty good day. Pictures are good, too.

eat_mo_crawfish · Post by **eat_mo_crawfish** » December 5th, 2004, 11:55 am

Great job, neighbor. When are you firing up the grill?

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » December 5th, 2004, 2:27 pm

Great report.

Post by **wevans** » December 5th, 2004, 2:57 pm

Mako didn't look near that happy leaving here

Nice catch

I done heard all the particulars

aint sure bout them #s he give me though

BKTomblin Jr · Post by **BKTomblin Jr** » December 5th, 2004, 4:39 pm

....to wevans.... you see the evidence, dont trust my memory... But, mj and myself had a great time

Post by **mjsigns** » December 5th, 2004, 8:48 pm

It was a good time. Had a heck of a time rinsing the boat in freshwater. Went down to the lake up the road form the landing, and rolled the trailer off the end of the ramp. They had lowered the water level for some reason. I almost thought we weren't going to be able to pull it out. The old Toyotya came thorugh on the third attempt. Ended up rinsing at the bridge at Newport.

Fried the backbones and throats today and made a great lunch. Saving the fillets for later. It's been a while since I've had any grouper.

wevans- I'm glad to hear Mako cought up with you. I really wanted to tag along for the experience, and to meet you.

Thanks for the comments, replies and ideas !

MJ

Post by **RodBow** » December 5th, 2004, 9:05 pm

All RIGHT!

Post by **rocket** » December 5th, 2004, 10:14 pm

Good job, I'm jealous. I've been skunked on my attempts to offshore fish this year. Luckily the inshore fish have been kinder

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Post by **mjsigns** » December 5th, 2004, 11:05 pm

Rocket- The boat did most of the work, and it took a while to find the fish, but we stumbled on to them by accident I am sure. After all I have heard that "I am one of the luckiest men alive". I marked a bunch of spots and saw a bunch of good bottom, and will be returning there sometime soon. Keep trying and you'll be sure to find them. Thanks for the response....

2true · Post by **2true** » December 6th, 2004, 12:42 am

100 lizard fish?

YOU RULE ! ! !

Post by **mjsigns** » December 6th, 2004, 12:53 pm

BKTomblin Jr · Post by **BKTomblin Jr** » December 6th, 2004, 3:21 pm

It might not have been a hundred, but it seemed like every other cast for a good while

sea-grits · Post by **sea-grits** » December 7th, 2004, 1:27 pm

Way, cool!
I need this kind of encouragement to get my 21' SportCraft back out there in the cool weather for some of them Groupers who're sneaking in from way out there and want to sacrifice themselves to my appetite for some fillets! Love them G-fingers, too!
Any body who needs a grouper podna on short notice, give me a call at 850-893-3278. I already got one bite! Count me in on sharing gas, bait, ice boat cleaning and making sandwiches. One or two fish at a time is all I'm interested in, so, the Captain can have the rest of my limit anyway he wants.
And, I'm really a nice dude, no chit!