St Marks 9-15 & 16
Posted: September 16th, 2005, 8:35 pm
Got a late start yesterday morning..Gotta remember to turn cell phone off when I go fishing..Customer caught me fore I could turn it off !
Got on the flats after nine and it was slow from the start....I started throwing topwaters and didn't get a rise for an hour...Switched to a swa under a ct and finally caught a decent trout...
I caught maybe 10 from then till 12 but the five I kept were about the best five fish limit I ever caught....Four from 17 to just under 20 and one nearly 25.....Caught the big one on a dropper I had under a jig and grub. Dropper had a number 8 hook and piece of fishbite that I was trying to catch pinfish on .......pinfish was hard to come by too.....
Water smoothed down some and I headed to some bottom I had marked last fall....Started dragging a stretch and wasn't long fore had a 24 inch gag..Caught two more that size or a bit longer and two shorts.....Wind and sea got up and I headed in....
Met Ron Wilson last night...Super nice person.....First forum member I had met....Saw him again this morning out on the flats...
This morning I got out a little earlier...intending to get back to my grouper hole but bout five miles out the wind and sea changed my mind ! I went back inshore and trout fished awhile to ride it out....rough in close....
Caught two short trout in a couple hours and that was it..water calmed down some and I went back outside....
Started trolling about 20 ft and picked up a nice gag right quick..In next hour caught four more including a double....three were shorts.....then it stopped !
Got one more good hit in the next hour and it wasn't a grouper..whatever it was went parallel to the boat pulling drag till it threw the hooks....figure probably a cobia.. the stretch or the leader didnt have any more marks than usual on them....
Bout 2:30 the wind started getting up again so I reeled em in and headed to the hill.....All in all, these were a couple of the best days I've had out of St Marks....
Got on the flats after nine and it was slow from the start....I started throwing topwaters and didn't get a rise for an hour...Switched to a swa under a ct and finally caught a decent trout...
I caught maybe 10 from then till 12 but the five I kept were about the best five fish limit I ever caught....Four from 17 to just under 20 and one nearly 25.....Caught the big one on a dropper I had under a jig and grub. Dropper had a number 8 hook and piece of fishbite that I was trying to catch pinfish on .......pinfish was hard to come by too.....
Water smoothed down some and I headed to some bottom I had marked last fall....Started dragging a stretch and wasn't long fore had a 24 inch gag..Caught two more that size or a bit longer and two shorts.....Wind and sea got up and I headed in....
Met Ron Wilson last night...Super nice person.....First forum member I had met....Saw him again this morning out on the flats...
This morning I got out a little earlier...intending to get back to my grouper hole but bout five miles out the wind and sea changed my mind ! I went back inshore and trout fished awhile to ride it out....rough in close....
Caught two short trout in a couple hours and that was it..water calmed down some and I went back outside....
Started trolling about 20 ft and picked up a nice gag right quick..In next hour caught four more including a double....three were shorts.....then it stopped !
Got one more good hit in the next hour and it wasn't a grouper..whatever it was went parallel to the boat pulling drag till it threw the hooks....figure probably a cobia.. the stretch or the leader didnt have any more marks than usual on them....
Bout 2:30 the wind started getting up again so I reeled em in and headed to the hill.....All in all, these were a couple of the best days I've had out of St Marks....
That's some good fishin 
