Carrabelle 2-01-06- Good Fishin, Bad Catchin..

Post by **qoutrage** » February 2nd, 2006, 11:24 am

Well, we gave it a shot yesterday. Got on the water about 9:30. Wat'ser name and I in our old Pursuit- Freddy, Charley Earwood, and Ted Logan in Freddy's Cimmaron.
The other fellows in the third boat got a late start account of one of them having the green apple quick step.
The weather was a little cool, probably 45* or so, but with no wind, it warmed up pretty quick.
The water in the bay was smooth and beyond the pass, it was just rippling. Temp ranged 59 to 61 or so. We started in about 40' of water. Clarity was good.
Short of it. We didn't do much good with the grouper or anything for that matter. 'Fished 6 to 8 miles off the east end of DI within sight of one another. Freddy and them started off with picking up their only keeper of the day with a 23" gag. I dropped a jig into the mouth of a 14-15" black bass. That was it for us for the day.
The other guys showed up on the water about 11 or 11:30 and missed what early bite there was all together.
We fished mostly with jigs and tried trolling a stretch a couple of miles. Freddy's crew and the other guys from Ga, fished LYs and squid.
Because it was so slow, and the first time Wat'ser name and I had the chance for just the two of us to fish our old boat, I decided to make a boat ride out of the rest of the trip. She's really not up to speed on GPSing and bottom searching (not that I am). So about 1:30, I decided to let her run us out to the O Tower to check things out, out that way.
Nice ride, and lots of fish echos around it. We dropped jigs and LYs down without any success.
Wat'ser name was happy, though, because there was a lot of birds there to watch. It didn't take long for us to figure out ya need to be on the upwind side of the tower. You know what the say about the other thing birds do besides eating.
We left around 4 or so and was back at the ramp around 5:30 after a survey of the outside east end of SGI. Dennis really did a trick on the dunes.
Freddy and his crew did get into a bunch of short grouper (about 12 or 14 of them) about 4PM or so and kinda saved their day in the catchin department.
Final tally for all was: 1 gag, 3 blk fish for Freddy and them- 1 blk fish for us- 3 or 4 grunts for the other party.
Over all, it was a nice day spent riding around. The wx and water was great, but the catchin sucked.

Nothin spectacular about the pics but here they are..

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Post by **Sir reel** » February 2nd, 2006, 11:33 am

Now that's a pretty decent job of reporting Q

And as far as non spectacular pictures... sure looks good to me compared to what's available here at work!!

Post by **tin can** » February 2nd, 2006, 11:40 am

Smart man, Q. Teach her to run the boat. You fish.

Post by GC » February 2nd, 2006, 12:05 pm

"Green apple quick step"

Nice report!

Post by **wevans** » February 2nd, 2006, 12:12 pm

Sounds like my last couple trips out

Still, a day of fishin.......

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » February 2nd, 2006, 12:19 pm

Great report, looks nice out there.

Post by **Frank Bradfield** » February 2nd, 2006, 1:13 pm

Looks very nice out there.. now if you can talk those mangrove snappers of coming out of the O tower, and biting, you'd have been doing really good ! Glad someone got out and got the report in... thanks....

Post by **Second Chance** » February 2nd, 2006, 4:15 pm

Thanks, I needed that

Just looking at the pics helps me to keep thinking spring is coming...spring is coming

Post by **qoutrage** » February 3rd, 2006, 10:52 am

Thanks for the comments, y'all.
Yeah T/C. Need to get her checked out good. She's a pretty good fishing partner already.
'Hope to upgrade the electronics soon. That would be a big help to both of us.
Sometimes I think Humminbird just has them animated little fish programed in the machine. And, it's only about one step up from a sounding lead, bottom-wise. Saving my money for some Garmin gear or equivalent.

Post by **Redfish Jim** » February 5th, 2006, 9:46 am

Thanks for the report. My last trip offshore was about the same. Glad you were able to get out

Post by **grouperboy** » February 5th, 2006, 10:35 am

Glad somebody got out.....I saw the weather, and was wishin' I could go, but I gotta sell sell sell during the week.

Do you guys think the red tide played a number on the small fish off Lanark/Carrabelle? I haven't been catching sea bass and grunts like I used to off Dog Island. I used to catch a ton of them on squid and a light rod, now all I get are short grouper on said squid. I have heard that the sea bass and grunts are still thick around St Marks, and the red tide did not hit St Marks as bad as it did Lanark.

But I hate trying to run offshore from St Marks, The gas for my Merc 225 runs me 50 bucks just to make it to the Lighthouse from the fort.

Time for a 4 cycle.