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Got on the water just after 7:00 headed out to our first spot a little west of the mouth and started fishing. It was a little rougher than I had hoped but O well you fish when you can. The fish were hard to come by i don't think the first keeper went in the box till after 10:00. And man did it get rough out there after lunch. The water was 77 degrees and pretty clear with the conditions. Put 29.5 miles on the GPS went east and west and still only scraped up 3 trout 15.5, 16, and 18" and 1 blue(all mine). Other than that a couple of cats and 7 or 8 shorts. Found some new spotty bottom and got stopped by the man in the river on the way in. He checked my fish and said have a good day.

Good you got out there..

Did about the same as you Sat.Wind got stiff in the afternoon.
Only good thing about Sat. is my wife and I took the youngest daughter and she loves Rock Island so went spent an hour or so there eating a sandwich and letting her find shells.

We also fished Saturday, my wife & I started west of the tripod, she caught a 20" trout first cast, things slowed down after that. We caught a variety of fish, I caught a 31" cobia, then later caught a 28" one, released both, caught 2- 15" flounder, one 16" spanish, a large rock bass, and a 17" trout. We left around 300
Fish bite slow, but a good time was had.

Thanks for the report.

I'm looking forward to getting over to Econfina one of these days soon.

I posted a report for my trip Saturday. Not gang-busters but fish dinner for two.

The Icky has never been to friendly to me "the few times I've been there"

The only time I went over there PA wore me out using topwater plugs, and by talking to the trout encouraging them to strike. He must know their lingo 'cause he jumped all over me. No fair.

The rocks I saw over that way that trip chilled me on going over there again without another giude like PA.
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There are rocks at Icky? Are you talking about the river or mouth; or out on the flats. Been fishing there several years and seen a few in the river and a bar out on the flats at the mouth, but never any on the flats.

but O well you fish when you can.

Painful but True

Keep going, HnM. Icky can be some of the best fishin around. It'll get better.

mark k, i hope you are joking man. that place is full of rocks. it doesn't matter if you are in the river or out on the flats. go down there on a low tide somewhere and drive around about 2 miles out and look down in the water. you will get that sick feeling in your throat.

Least you got out there!