St. Marks 8/27/05

Post by **tin can** » August 27th, 2005, 6:08 pm

I'll start this post by apologizing to Sir Reel for yesterday. He and I are not intended to have a good day of fishing together. We fished hard yesterday and did not catch a fish.

I couldn't stand it, and went back this morning. I'll start by saying if any of you stayed home today because of the NOAA forecast, you missed a beautiful day. I launched at the lighthouse at 0700 this morning and headed east in search of reds. The wind was at 5 to 8 mph out of the east, with a light chop on the water. I really had no idea where to start this morning, so, I picked a spot and started fishing. Not a bite for the first 45 minutes. Then I found the spot. I caught 6 reds from 20" to 27", and had that many more on. It all happened in an hour. But what an hour. I'm hooked on this red fishin.

This is the 27"er.

Sir Reel, I'm beginning to think the fish are scared of you.

Post by **birddog** » August 27th, 2005, 6:33 pm

All right, Tin Can! Man, I wish I could have gone today.

Post by **Chalk** » August 27th, 2005, 7:06 pm

Nice.....

pennfish · Post by **pennfish** » August 27th, 2005, 8:22 pm

Gotta love those Reds...... Nice catch

.

Post by **Jumptrout51** » August 27th, 2005, 8:27 pm

Fishing with Sir Reel you should have at least caught some short reds.
WTG,Tincan.

Post by **noleflyfisher** » August 27th, 2005, 9:46 pm

Nice job TC. You've got those St. Mark's reds dialed in.

BTW a buddy and I went down to the refuge pools this morning with the flyrods and wanted to kick ourselves for listening to NOAA. . . we should have been redfishing.

Post by **Eerman** » August 27th, 2005, 10:54 pm

Looks like you took the wrong boat...nice fish

Post by **tin can** » August 27th, 2005, 11:25 pm

Eerman wrote:Looks like you took the wrong boat...nice fish

I took the right boat.

Post by **tin can** » August 27th, 2005, 11:28 pm

noleflyfisher wrote:Nice job TC. You've got those St. Mark's reds dialed in. BTW a buddy and I went down to the refuge pools this morning with the flyrods and wanted to kick ourselves for listening to NOAA. . . we should have been redfishing.

I saw y'all on my way in this morning. If I had known it was you I would have stopped and introduced myself. Looked like one of you was hung up when I went by. Did you get your fly back?

Post by **Old Dog** » August 28th, 2005, 11:49 pm

And what lure did you use to catch those reds?
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Post by **tin can** » August 29th, 2005, 6:35 am

Old Dog wrote:And what lure did you use to catch those reds?
d

OD, caught them on topwater and spoons. The one in the picture ate a Top Dog.

Post by **Sir reel** » August 29th, 2005, 9:02 am

WELL....it LOOKS like you caught fish!!

After our recent experience....I'm not sure if I'm buy'n into this stuff or not

Did you stay East?

Post by **tin can** » August 29th, 2005, 10:03 am

Sir reel wrote: Did you stay East?

Yes I did.