St Marks 9/28

Post by **Reel Slow** » September 29th, 2005, 6:53 am

Went over to Grey Mare yesterday with a friend. Beautiful morning except for the wind, which was pretty strong out of the east early then south mid day. Water was murky with under 2' visibility but floating grass was reduced somewhat. Found another rock due east of Grey Mare that I have buzzed around many times and it is due s. of the rock that Tom Keels posted a short time ago. I'll post numbers after I get them off my GPS. We drifted for trout on the slack tide all morning and boated 6 keepers to 20", then headed into the creeks for reds. Wind now out of the south and strong enough to make it hard to fish shoreline. Didn't see bait around the creeks like a week or two ago and jacks were crashing bait just off shore. Once tide started moving and wind slacked some we caught 5 reds! We also caught a good number trout as well and all were nice sized from 19 to a 24" gator that put up a great fight. Between us we tried a ton of lures but topwater and spoons were keeper getters! Saw some manatees as well by Grey Mare.

Cleaning the red last night, I noticed something sticking out of his rear end. Turned out to be half of a rusted hook lodged there!

They are one tough fishâ€¦.

Post by **Chalk** » September 29th, 2005, 7:07 am

Nice day on the water for sure....

Post by **tin can** » September 29th, 2005, 7:08 am

Sounds like the fish are moving in for the fall bonanza. If the hook that was in the red was rusty, I don't need it back.

Post by **wevans** » September 29th, 2005, 7:20 am

That sounds like one heckofa sweet day

with the forcast we have, I may just bring the Redneck to work with me and go strait from here to Bottoms tomorrow "if I can find a sitter for after school"

the weekend aint lookin to pretty right now

catchin1 · Post by **catchin1** » September 29th, 2005, 7:58 am

Man your makin my fever get worse.

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » September 29th, 2005, 8:35 am

Very good.

Post by **Sir reel** » September 29th, 2005, 10:49 am

Wevans wrote:

I may just bring the Redneck to work with me and go strait from here to Bottoms tomorrow "if I can find a sitter for after school"

Just spoke with TC.... we both agreed that if you run into trouble finding a sitter... we'll take the boat out for you so just go ahead and bring it to work tomorrow..

Post by **birddog** » September 29th, 2005, 12:16 pm

Awesome trip, RS Whats that you said, "topwater and a gold spoon" HMMM seems like thats my 2 favorite baits.

WTG , Bud.

Hit-n-Miss · Post by **Hit-n-Miss** » September 29th, 2005, 12:33 pm

Everyone always mentions a gold spoon but nobody ever say's what kind.

HELP!

Post by **Chalk** » September 29th, 2005, 1:03 pm

Capt, Mike's or a Red Ripper.....and a swivel.....From what I was told anyway

Post by **tin can** » September 29th, 2005, 4:42 pm

Chalk wrote:Capt, Mike's or a Red Ripper.....and a swivel.....From what I was told anyway

That would be correct. Use a very small swivel.

Post by **birddog** » September 29th, 2005, 4:55 pm

Who's this Captain Mike person?

Post by **Reel Slow** » September 29th, 2005, 6:08 pm

Thanks guys! It was a fun day. Makes for a short work week too!

Chalk predicted correctly, we used Capt. Mikes and Red Ripper's

Captain Mike is a guy getting rich of us fishing fools buying his spoons! You know BD, any lure will work when their biting

Post by **Jumptrout51** » September 30th, 2005, 3:15 pm

WobbleRite spoons. That's all I'm saying.

Post by **Eerman** » September 30th, 2005, 6:42 pm

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