Belated St. Marks Sept. 17
Posted: September 26th, 2005, 9:38 am
I have been, shall we say, "under the weather" a bit lately, but we have a duty to report, right? So I am belatedly reporting from a week ago Saturday!
Left the light house and it was calm at 8:30 or so. I had decided late to do this and decided to go by myself and just try some new stuff. I also needed to finish early so couldn't do the tourney; and had missed the last coupla NFGFC meetings.. blah blah blah
SO, it was calm. I went into the east river and fished for pins. Shoulda done that elsewhere, but got several. Tried top water along the grass. Then anchored at the end of an oyster bar and fished pins, shrimp, top water, and jigs along the bar. Current was swift. No takers.
Headed out of the river, and it was so calm I took the 13'er out to maybe the last, big marker buoy. And I fished pins for cobia. And I thought I saw a fin or a fin trail coming at my bait, and around my bait, but no takers.
Anchored and fished and had lunch and got visited by the Mullet Sherriff. I passed inspection.
I fished all techniques for a while in 20 feet except trolling.
Then I motored to 10 feet and drifted. Got a shark on an artificial, a small one. And a short trout. But NO action really. Saw bait pods, and being alone I tried to use the cast net. Not too bad a thrower, but I think I better watch the video again.
Then same deal in 6 feet and 4 feet.
Then it was time to head in. As I was entering the Light House canal, I saw a slash into a little bait pod. I pulled up and cast a spinner a couple of times and had something on!
It didn't fight like a spec or a red. It came to the boat and it turned sideways and I got a glimpse. I thought was a blue fish. I had very, very light tackle on, a thin, thin flouro leader. So I let my drag really loose, wanting the thing to tire on very little tension so my line wouldn't get cut.
He stayed close to the boat. I netted it and it was a nice Spanish Mackeral. It cut the line in the net. It was great for dinner, with Paul Prudome's Fish Magic rubbed in and butter bits on the filet, and Pam sprayed on the skin side, and the fillet slow cooked with a lot of smoke! Mmmm-mmm. Fell asleep on the couch watchin' the FSU/BC game.
So, I was vindicated on the one-last-cast-on-the-way-in-at-the-last-minute practice of mine.
Left the light house and it was calm at 8:30 or so. I had decided late to do this and decided to go by myself and just try some new stuff. I also needed to finish early so couldn't do the tourney; and had missed the last coupla NFGFC meetings.. blah blah blah
SO, it was calm. I went into the east river and fished for pins. Shoulda done that elsewhere, but got several. Tried top water along the grass. Then anchored at the end of an oyster bar and fished pins, shrimp, top water, and jigs along the bar. Current was swift. No takers.
Headed out of the river, and it was so calm I took the 13'er out to maybe the last, big marker buoy. And I fished pins for cobia. And I thought I saw a fin or a fin trail coming at my bait, and around my bait, but no takers.
Anchored and fished and had lunch and got visited by the Mullet Sherriff. I passed inspection.
I fished all techniques for a while in 20 feet except trolling.
Then I motored to 10 feet and drifted. Got a shark on an artificial, a small one. And a short trout. But NO action really. Saw bait pods, and being alone I tried to use the cast net. Not too bad a thrower, but I think I better watch the video again.
Then same deal in 6 feet and 4 feet.
Then it was time to head in. As I was entering the Light House canal, I saw a slash into a little bait pod. I pulled up and cast a spinner a couple of times and had something on!
It didn't fight like a spec or a red. It came to the boat and it turned sideways and I got a glimpse. I thought was a blue fish. I had very, very light tackle on, a thin, thin flouro leader. So I let my drag really loose, wanting the thing to tire on very little tension so my line wouldn't get cut.
He stayed close to the boat. I netted it and it was a nice Spanish Mackeral. It cut the line in the net. It was great for dinner, with Paul Prudome's Fish Magic rubbed in and butter bits on the filet, and Pam sprayed on the skin side, and the fillet slow cooked with a lot of smoke! Mmmm-mmm. Fell asleep on the couch watchin' the FSU/BC game.
So, I was vindicated on the one-last-cast-on-the-way-in-at-the-last-minute practice of mine.
