Good Morning Bite

7.17.14

Phil and I hit the mouth of the river today.  He was looking for some fish for a fish fry.

It was a beautiful morning and quite a change from the humid, stormy mornings we have been having lately.

The Ochlockonee was just before a high tide and the water was clear.

We went to the horse shoe bar and it was open as Phil banged 3 nice trout and some small reds and flounders on a white gulp.

I couldn't get anything to look up at the bandonkadonk or cordell,  so I joined the gulp fest and caught a few myself.

As the tide died, we headed up to the long bar just to check it out.  I finally go a trout to look up at the donk and a nice topwater fight began and ended with a 19" trout in the box.

The only fish I could get to hit the Cordell red fin was this.  I think it is a fish.

Phil ended up taking home this nice bag of trout for him and his buds.

Cobia Run

7.9.14

Wanted some cobia steaks and did our cobia run Tuesday.

Started out by the barge off 24 but nothing wanted our freshly caught pinfish.

Hit our holes coming back in to the ramp and managed 3 non keepers like this.

They all had friends following them up when their hooked buddy was coming boat side.

Didn't see any big ones.

We eased in to Mashes to look for tarpon.  Saw a couple, but no takers.

And then the storms came....

Scurried back to the ramp.

2,2,2

7.3.14

We wanted to run and see if we can see/catch a tarpon and then head on down to Lanark to get some scallops.  I heard good reports from last week that there were a bunch of scallops down there.

So off we went to the tip of Alligator Point.  The water was choppy so there was a degree of difficulty in looking for the tarpon.

We anchored up on some white sand and soon I saw two big tarpon shadows looming just off the starboard side of the boat.  Some quick casts with my DOA got nothing.

But we did catch two sharks.

We then motored on down to Lanark  and the fleet was in.

We anchored up there about 3 times and I managed to get a limit of scallops, one for me and one for Nancy.

So the day ended, two tarpon seen, two sharks caught, two scallops in the bag.

July 1 Federal Gag Opened

Went offshore with Randy.
ZEROED!!  Nuff Said!

Fish Fry On Ice

6.25.14

Headed out about 3 miles to our area that is covered with debris.

We wanted to replenish our freezer and the trout were there and biting on a slack tide.

The first few casts brought trout aboard with a white gulp shrimp and red jig head doing the trick.

Also the flounder were in on the action as well as some small cobia.

Fishing was good initially and then slacked as the tide quickened, but we brought these nice fish home.

The flounder was a nice 16" and was great eating last night stuffed with deviled crab from Mineral Springs Seafood!

"The Jinx Is Broken!?"

6.19.14

Phil and his buddy Mike are down fishing this week and next from Gainesville, Ga.
Phil has had weather problems in the past.  Usually of the tropical storm variety.  But, except for evening thunderstorms, this week's weather has been very Florida like, hot, sticky and an evening shore breeze followed by thunderstorms.

They followed Nancy and I out off the 24 marker Thursday and as Phil says, the jinx was broken.  Don't know if his comment was weather or fish related, but Mike put a nice 40" cobia in the box.

This crab cruncher was caught out off the barge and ate a downlined pinfish.

When we pulled up on the site, I could see cobia swimming with the spade fish.

I caught this non keeper cobia free lining a pinny.

Nancy and I took the SeaCraft out to a couple of grunt holes and put a few in the ice box that tasted mighty fine last night adorning a soft taco shell.

Phil is down for another week, so I'm keeping an eye on the weather.  I'm sure a tropical storm is near.

Junk Fish Trip

6.17.14

Water Temp: 82

Rode with Phil and Mike today to show them a few places and lay down some tracks in their boat so they have some confidence it some spots to fish the next couple of weeks.

The water was calm and the temps were hot and the junk fish bit.

Started at the shoals and caught a variety of species, trout, blues, shark, spanish, etc.

Only got to keep three or four trout as they were reluctant to bite or grow big enough to keep.

But I did get this nice spanish.  I think it is about the biggest one I have ever caught.

He liked trying to take the badonkadonk away from me on the 2 flat.

Summer is here as we were off the water about noon.

And it was HOT!!