St. Joe Bay 6/23 - 6/26
Posted: July 3rd, 2002, 8:27 am
Fished Sun. afternoon caught a short the first cast. That to me is an omen. Several other shorts, no keepers, tide was falling fast and things were drying up. Started out Mon. with live Pinfish and Shrimp. Forget the shrimp, caught several Shark on the pinfish. Back to Mann's jerk baits and fluke worms. Caught 5 keepers one of which was 22". Guides were using cast nets and catching Elwyss, not sure if that is spelled right or not. Did not have a cast net. That seemed to be the ticket. Caught 3 keepers on Tuesday the largest being 25" on a Yozuri minnow and Rootbeer grub tails. Lost a nice Redfish on a Mann's jerk bait, gold with a red back. Wednesday started with a nice 19" trout on a grub tail and was followed by a 26" Redfish. That made the day. The moral of this story, never go down with out a cast net. 
