08/20/05 St. Joe Bay
Posted: August 20th, 2005, 8:23 pm
Picked up Birddog early this morning for a rendezvous with the mighty St. Joe bay...I had my mind made up that I was gonna find a mess of trout and was hoping there would be some good topwater action early.
We arrived at Presnell's and nobody was there (it was that early)..Eckley showed up at 6:30 and we were on our way in the dark....We head past Black's Island looking for a trout...
We started out with a light breeze and some good misses on topwater...Birddog missed something that he described as having a head as wide as his stomach
....I didn't see it, but wrote it off as a possible world record catfish 
...
We ended up catching 8 keeper trout, biggest was 19" and about 50 short trout, some blue fish, ladyfish, even a lizardfish made it to the boat....We caught 4 redfish to 20"....
Weather was I guess typical for August, being unpredictable...Remember the lite breeze at dawn, it went from a breeze to almost a gale to almost dead at slack tide....It was dead still and hot about 1:00, we decided to move about 100 yards and by the time we stopped, the wind was blowing a gale and cold...
Caught fish on straight jigs, cajun thunders, topwater, spoons and spinners....most all were in 3-5 foot of spotty bottom....
The scalloper's were there in force as well....Nice day on the bay, Birddog thanks for tagging along....
We arrived at Presnell's and nobody was there (it was that early)..Eckley showed up at 6:30 and we were on our way in the dark....We head past Black's Island looking for a trout...
We started out with a light breeze and some good misses on topwater...Birddog missed something that he described as having a head as wide as his stomach
....I didn't see it, but wrote it off as a possible world record catfish ...We ended up catching 8 keeper trout, biggest was 19" and about 50 short trout, some blue fish, ladyfish, even a lizardfish made it to the boat....We caught 4 redfish to 20"....
Weather was I guess typical for August, being unpredictable...Remember the lite breeze at dawn, it went from a breeze to almost a gale to almost dead at slack tide....It was dead still and hot about 1:00, we decided to move about 100 yards and by the time we stopped, the wind was blowing a gale and cold...
Caught fish on straight jigs, cajun thunders, topwater, spoons and spinners....most all were in 3-5 foot of spotty bottom....
The scalloper's were there in force as well....Nice day on the bay, Birddog thanks for tagging along....