St. Marks River 2/12 pm
Posted: February 13th, 2005, 9:35 am
My senior partner couldn't go to the tourney so I took my one of my junior partners to St. Marks. After TC's positive post from Thursday I was really looking forward to catching my first red. Put in at the fort and realized he didn't say how far up the river he was so we just went "up".
Got to the sloop moored above the power plant and started fishing. Crankbaits were the play of the day. Amanda got to break in her new Bill Dance combo ($20 from BPS Christmas special). Whew! Imagine a 10 year old with new spinning rig with 2 treble hooks flying! I thought I would lose an ear a couple of times (it would of been payback from the time I took the fly rod), but like Chalk - it was me that spent a large part of the time squirrel fishing! Past a few boats hunkered down on holes fishing shrimp but we were pulling as many bass out as they were getting hung up on the bottom.
We started at 2 from the fort, got to where we were going and then blew upriver
. We got to come out of our jackets for about an hour or two before the breeze got cold again. Fished until 5:30 and thankfully missed all the traffic at the fort. Woulda, coulda, shoulda fished tourney
but turned out to be a good first time out in a long time with my daughter.
She reminded me that spring is coming soon and this was good practice with her new r&r.
Final: 8 bass all thrown back, assorted oaks, cypress, pine (onland and aquatic)
Got to the sloop moored above the power plant and started fishing. Crankbaits were the play of the day. Amanda got to break in her new Bill Dance combo ($20 from BPS Christmas special). Whew! Imagine a 10 year old with new spinning rig with 2 treble hooks flying! I thought I would lose an ear a couple of times (it would of been payback from the time I took the fly rod), but like Chalk - it was me that spent a large part of the time squirrel fishing! Past a few boats hunkered down on holes fishing shrimp but we were pulling as many bass out as they were getting hung up on the bottom.
We started at 2 from the fort, got to where we were going and then blew upriver
. We got to come out of our jackets for about an hour or two before the breeze got cold again. Fished until 5:30 and thankfully missed all the traffic at the fort. Woulda, coulda, shoulda fished tourneybut turned out to be a good first time out in a long time with my daughter.
She reminded me that spring is coming soon and this was good practice with her new r&r.
Final: 8 bass all thrown back, assorted oaks, cypress, pine (onland and aquatic)
sounds like ya'll had a blast 
