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So I am out of practice, as if ever practiced! Took the 13'er and a buddy out yesterday from the Light House. Overslept and got to Woodville about 7:30 where we were fooled by the "Live Shrimp" sign into stoppin', to find they ran out the day before and were expecting more later. Same deal at Jerry's, though no misleading sign. Stoppin' at Jerry's is always worth a hoot for me, anyway.

The bottom of the low tide was over as we motored out and turned right, west. Went out to 10 feet and drifted, nada. About 5 or so feet, hooked up with short trouts, all on white grubs with pink tails casted by my buddy.

I was giving some topwaters a try. It was perhaps the wrong place and time for that, right? Learnin'......

The I got a hit on my nice new She Dog. It was a lot of fun, and when it started jumpin', I saw it was a big but only saw the back or top of the fish. I didn't know right then that it was a lady fish. I was too excited to play it right with my light tackle.....

So my line broke. bye bye She Dog! I saw the fish take it down. aggh.

We ran into lots of bait pods in 4 or 5 feet, and the predator fish were having a slashing field day. So of course we casted into them, and it was all the lady fish you could stand.

And we kept gettin' short trout in between and around the pods.

Had a pin fish take a jig and put him out on the baitrunner. A while later something took the CT under and up and over and around. I screwed that up too, and ending up gettin the unseen critter to spit out the unhappy pinfish. I swear, it looked like the man in the brown suit, though we were pestered later by the gray lookin' fellas as we pulled in a couple small sharks, black tip.

Got a small black bass to release too.

Saw a sea turtle, that seemed to follow us; and porpoises too.

But we gave up in the withering heat before we got very close to any creeks. No trolling motor......

Stopped at the kayak store on the way home. Those babies look a bit heavy and bulky for me to lift solo up to the top of the 4Runner.....

It was a fine day. No keepers, but nice.

Seems the key to it right now is to be on the water before daylight and off by 9 or so sounds like ya'll had some fun anyhow

Good report.

All I caught was sharks and cat fish this weekend, so you did better than me!

Nice report. 'Nothing wrong with releasing all your fish. And even still....in my book there's no such thing as a 'trash' fish. Catchin' is catchin'

Yup, I hit St. Marks Friday and Sunday with similar luck. Fished mainly East River and the bars in front of the lighthouse, with a couple of ventures to the Rock Garden area and some nearshore deeper spots. Complete biodiversity trips. Caught grunt, pinnners, stingrays, cats, ladyfish, tons of short trout, a small mangrove snapper, shark, and sea bass. Did get into a couple of schools of small reds, catching about a dozen undersized ones each time before they split. Managed two really nice sheepshead on Sunday. I think Wevans is correct. On and off early if you want fish and don't want to sit in the heat.

eat_mo_crawfish wrote: Managed two really nice sheepshead on Sunday. I think Wevans is correct. On and off early if you want fish and don't want to sit in the heat.

OK. I confess. Never caught a sheepy.....