I Miss All My Family And Friends!!!

10.28.13

.....because, when they visited, that was the only time I've caught fish this year!

I've been lucky that when we've had guests that the fishing has been excellent.

But, when the aren't here, the fishing has been tough on me and Nancy this year.

We caught flounder, blue runners, grouper, lady fish, black sea bass and probably some other fish yesterday, but nothing of any size.

It was kind of the usual, a plan to go to K tower to fish, waves predicted to be 1 foot or less, waves actually 3 feet, turn back after 10 miles of beating wondering when we can touch the big water again.

The rest of the week calls for 1-3 footers, which means at least 5 foot waves.

But, if you want to catch ladyfish, the mouth of the Ocklockonee River is covered up with them pounding bait as far as you can see!

Fishing Is Picking Up

10.17.13

Water temp: 77 degrees

Got out today for a morning trip.  It actually was flat calm which we haven't seen in a while.

Macon and me caught a few trout out in Ullmore cove.  Two keepers and plenty of shorts on topwater and gulp.

I let Macon off at the dock and went into the harbor and caught a nice 21"red on topwater and missed two others.

 Gotta quick drinking coffee in the morning, I snatched it away from them before they could eat it.

Pretty Day Finally

10.10.13

I took Gordon out for a little inshore fishing.

Gordon said he hasn't been out on the salt for 12 years.  He quickly put a whiting in the boat and tied his record for most fish caught in 12 years.

We didn't get away to far from the hill.

The sand trout Nancy and I had caught were not to be found.

We finally hooked up on a nice trout in front of Piney Island that took a Z Man Swimmer Z.

We managed to donate 3 fish to the Panacea RV park fish fry.

As a side note, some nice red snapper catches came in to the marina later in the day.

Boats are finally able to get out.

Very Wide Variety

10.8.13

After the stormy weather got through, we decided to try our luck.

The fish I had caught out on Whetstone Point were either gone or ran out of water to swim in as we had an extremely low tide yesterday morning.  The dolphin put on a show attacking mullet in very skinny water.

We headed back into the harbor to get our lines stretched by some sand trout and they didn't disappoint us as we boated a dozen and kept a couple for dinner.

We came in on the lowest tide and decided to try the mouth of the river in the evening.  It was surprisingly calm and there were a few fish to be caught.

Jack Crevalle bowed us up a few times, as well as lady fish and blue fish.

They were pulling hard in the incoming tide that was howling up river.

The water was very off, probably due to the strong tide and the tropical system that had just passed.

Finally a Fishing Report

10.3.13

Well the wind has been howling from the east for many, many days.

I watched folks catching sand trout in Panacea harbor last weekend. Nancy and I tried it Monday. But only caught one trout and one whiting.

I braved the east wind Wednesday and finally got on some trout in Ullmore cove. First catch of the day was a sailcat. Next was a nice flounder that spit the bit at boat side. Then I figured out a stretch of the cove that produced 15+ trout before the high tide ebbed.

Had to go and fish the tourist rig with a new penny gulp for the best action and to keep out of the weeds.

We are hunkering down now for an approaching tropical storm. It looks like after this blow the weather will improve substantially and the fall bite will really crank up.

Just to give you an idea this is a picture of what the weather has been like.
It was photographed at St. George Island last week.

A lot of fishing, a little catching.

9.7.13 and 9.12.13

Nancy and I went out to the 35 ft. depths on Monday to see if any grouper had come in closer.

Nancy caught this non keeper and had one body slam her to the boat seat, but that one got away.

We also caught a few grunts, but not much to bring home.

I went out today trying to find a tarpon.  I saw some ladyfish jumping and decided to head across the channel and catch one for cut bait.

Much to my surprise, my first cast yielded a nice 15" trout on the Paul Brown Fat Boy.

On the next cast I caught the big lady fish I was wanting for bait.

And on the next cast a tarpon decided he wanted the lure more than I as he tore it away from me and broke my line.

Now that I had my bait I figured I could get bit on the big rods I brought for tarpon.

Nope, no bites.

At least I got my first tarpon hook up for the year.

Whale Stranded on Dog Island

8.28.13

My sister said she saw a whale jump behind our boat last summer.

I guess maybe she did see it.

Here is an article on one that didn't make it on Dog Island.


http://www.apalachtimes.com/news/outdoors/whale-stranded-on-dog-island-dies-1.190473