Tide: Incoming to High
Christmas Eve brought Hunter, Doug and I together for a trip out to the Ochlockonee River mouth.
We headed over to Chaires Creek with two dozen shrimp and some gulp and tried to duplicate the good fishing adventure we had the last trip out. But, as usual, it is tough to duplicate the previous trip if the tide isn't working the same as the last time. This time the tide came in late and just kind of hovered at high. We used up a bunch of shrimp feeding little fellas on the bottom. I did manage to put one keeper speckled sea trout in the box.
So, as the wind layed and the tide slackened, we headed over to fish in front of the 24 marker and try for sand trout. The river rushes through there so hard, most of the time we don't fish it. But, the conditions were right to drop 3/8 oz. jig heads tipped with gulp shrimp down to the bottom. We were quickly on the sand trout where the bottom came from 28 feet up to 20 feet.
These were some of the nicest sand trout we have caught. Hunter got us going with this one which was one of the smaller ones we caught. (except for Doug, who caught some about the size of his gulp.)
The size of the mouth on these guys show they can eat about anything you drop down.
Doug started whacking them too.
As the sun set we were thinking of the times gone by and the presents we used to get at Christmas. They included old cotton insulated underwear, green hunting boots that accelerated your freezing feet and blue jeans that seamed to be always frozen down by your shoes.
Here at the Forgotten Coast, that time was way behind us!
