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St Marks 9/28
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 6:53 am
by Reel Slow
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 fish….
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 7:07 am
by Chalk
Nice day on the water for sure....
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 7:08 am
by tin can
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.
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 7:20 am
by wevans
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
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 7:58 am
by catchin1
Man your makin my fever get worse.
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 8:35 am
by dstockwell
Very good.
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 10:49 am
by Sir reel
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..
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 12:16 pm
by birddog
Awesome trip, RS Whats that you said, "topwater and a gold spoon" HMMM seems like thats my 2 favorite baits.
WTG , Bud.
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 12:33 pm
by Hit-n-Miss
Everyone always mentions a gold spoon but nobody ever say's what kind.
HELP!
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 1:03 pm
by Chalk
Capt, Mike's or a Red Ripper.....and a swivel.....From what I was told anyway
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 4:42 pm
by tin can
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.
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 4:55 pm
by birddog
Who's this Captain Mike person?
Posted: September 29th, 2005, 6:08 pm
by Reel Slow
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
Posted: September 30th, 2005, 3:15 pm
by Jumptrout51
WobbleRite spoons. That's all I'm saying.
Posted: September 30th, 2005, 6:42 pm
by Eerman