St Marks - 4/25

Post by **Reel Slow** » April 26th, 2006, 9:13 am

When a man's boat is down, he finds out who his true friends are. Luckily, I was able to bribe one to take me

. Any way, we left out of the LH early to explore some new shallow flats just off creek mouths. Working in 8-14" of water on the rise, we landed 8 nice trout 18-20" in quick succession once the water began to move a little. My buddy makes a cast and his line makes that awful sound, phffffft on the cast. Of course a 28" red nails his zara but, his phfffft is stuck at the rod tip. So, when I see this big red, I predict "your screwed". Somehow, we managed to free line that bugger to the boat!

This created a major need in me to find some more reds, we popped over to a few honey holes and landed 7 reds to 25" and a 22" trout. The trout liked slow topwater (Zara's, skitters, and suspenders, and all fought like it heck today).

Saw a nice gator cruising the flats, one of the largest I've seen in N. Florida. His body was like a VW. Must have been munching blue crabs!

Back to the hill at 3. I'm beginning to like not having to wash a boat too.

Post by **Sir reel** » April 26th, 2006, 9:24 am

8-14" of water....

sounds like ya went with Charles

Post by **Chalk** » April 26th, 2006, 9:29 am

Good report RS....

Post by GC » April 26th, 2006, 9:55 am

Hand line a 28" red!!! SWEET!!

Post by **birddog** » April 26th, 2006, 4:57 pm

I hate those phffffft. Tell Greg to get rid of those sissy spinning reels and he won't hear it anymore.

Glad ya'll got'er did.

dave7 · Post by **dave7** » April 26th, 2006, 5:06 pm

Nice report -

Post by **Charles** » April 26th, 2006, 7:00 pm

birddog wrote:I hate those phffffft. Tell Greg to get rid of those sissy spinning reels and he won't hear it anymore.

Glad ya'll got'er did.

Yeah, real men use 6/0 Senators for trout and reds.

Good report RS.

Post by **birddog** » April 26th, 2006, 7:17 pm

Charles wrote:
birddog wrote:I hate those phffffft. Tell Greg to get rid of those sissy spinning reels and he won't hear it anymore.

Glad ya'll got'er did.
Yeah, real men use 6/0 Senators for trout and reds.

Good report RS.

Being a shimano man it would have to be a Tiagra.

Post by **rocket** » April 26th, 2006, 7:31 pm

Dang...and all I did yesterday was work. I dang sure would have rather been on the other end of that big ol' red!

Post by **Reel Slow** » April 26th, 2006, 7:42 pm

rocket wrote:Dang...and all I did yesterday was work. I dang sure would have rather been on the other end of that big ol' red!

Man caint work every day! Especially April-May, and June through March too.

Post by **Eerman** » April 26th, 2006, 7:59 pm

Much better than what I was doing. Only thing worse than that sound is when you make the perfect cast, to the perfect hole and you get a treble hook wrapped on the line.

Post by **tin can** » April 27th, 2006, 6:02 am

I hate when other folks have time to fish during the week, and I don't.