Water: Extremely Clear
Water Temp: 62 Deg
Air: 50's
Tide: Incoming
Beautiful, clear water greeted Hunter and I on Christmas Eve afternoon at Fort San Marcos at St. Marks.
We have been reading about the trout bite in the St Marks river and wanted to participate.
As we were backing the Nan into the the water, a nice boat was pulling out.
We inquired, "'Did you kill'em?".
They said the fished from the ramp to Newport, a total of 5 miles up the St. Marks River.
They were disgusted that they didn't get a bite.
Hunter and I looked at each other and said, well, I guess it's up the Wakulla River then.
I knew the marina docks harbored a few fish, but the tide was really low.
We positioned our boat so the would go into the wind and started fishing the docks. On about the fifth dock, Hunter said, "Dang, I got broke off." He said "there's a 3 lb. bass, AND a 4 lber."
We eased around the docks and I caught a small bass on topwater. Nice surprise for Christmas Eve.
We then started fishing down to the big boat docks, and Hunter started casting to the middle of the river.
He soon was hooked up.
This nice red came aboard.
We kept moving up and down the river, as the bite would die in one spot, we would move about 25 yards and they would start biting again.
On one of our last stops, I fought this 24" red to the boat.
By the end of our little 3 hour trip, we had landed 12 reds and were broke of a handful of times.
Another highlight of our trip is we saw tarpon rolling in the river. They seemed to be around lady fish schools. We casted to them numerous times, but, no luck.
It was a Christmas eve trip like no other and one we will remember for a long time.
