Hit St Marks instead.Left Shell Island Fish Camp about 9:00 New Time
. Got to the West Flats #2 stake about 10:00(pontoon boat and not in a hurry). Started fishing and waiting for the tide change. In 4 foot I could see my bubble gum jig pretty well. Ladies fished live shrimp. Guys, jigs to start with. Wife catches first fish. Short trout. Got a few hits but no more fish before the tide change.Wife and daughter caught a few more shorts after the change. Daughters guy and I kept trying artificials of all sorts with little success. I finally caught one 16" keeper, on live shrimp, I gave up on artificials. Daughter got one to the boat that was dead on 15". Since 'The Man' frowns on using my law stick to measure the catch we threw it back. Only other thing caught was a couple of spined puffer fish. Daughter's guy caught one as big as a football. Biggest I've ever seen, maybe I should get out more.
I had a chum bag over the side with fish pellets in it. We kept glass minnows around the boat. Looked like 1" to 1.5". Lost a couple of jigs to teeth. Had several plastics chomped in half. Wonder what that could have been. Didn't see any lady fish jumping.
About 2:30 the wind blew us off the flats so I took the kids on a sight seeing tour up the St Marks. We had a ball.
It was a beautiful day with great company.
Sounds like the Spanish were cutting you.
