doomtrpr_z71
Senior Member
Due to a career change I am moving to Missouri in a rather short period of time, so I had to fit in a last fishing trip to the flats. So a college buddy of mine and a colleague of mine decided that we would take a trip to St Marks 4/6-7, coincidentally where my colleague took his wife on there first date. The trip started off simply enough :
It was a beautiful afternoon, even if it was a bit of a late start
And we did find fish in the rock garden in 3-3.5 ft of water, pink shine and white chartreuse tailed shrimp were the ticket with few shorts to be found
We didn't load the boat but 3 nice trout in a short period of time was worth leaving work early for and we decided to head in before dark due to the amount of crap traps we had seen going out. But this is never a good sign
Unfortunately, the issue from my last day trip with my boat was not corrected and we had a bilge full of water and had to go in slowly and I had to ponder what to do with my boat
Regardless, we made it back fine, just made for a later supper at Riverside Cafe
vMuch to my colleague's distress we were already planning on going back out the next morning and we made our way to the new TRU hotel in Tallahassee.
The next morning was a bit rough but we got our gameplan together
We fished until 11 and called it after looking at the radar, we managed a few more trout near the lighthouse with the same lures and made a ton of memories. We even figured out the boat issue when taking the boat out.
It was also decided that this would be an annual 3 day affair going forward dubbed "The Annual SS Minnow Classic" while grabbing lunch
If youre just here for the fishing report, pink or white/chart shrimp, 3-3.5ft of water, water temp was 70-71F.
It was a beautiful afternoon, even if it was a bit of a late start
And we did find fish in the rock garden in 3-3.5 ft of water, pink shine and white chartreuse tailed shrimp were the ticket with few shorts to be found
We didn't load the boat but 3 nice trout in a short period of time was worth leaving work early for and we decided to head in before dark due to the amount of crap traps we had seen going out. But this is never a good sign
Unfortunately, the issue from my last day trip with my boat was not corrected and we had a bilge full of water and had to go in slowly and I had to ponder what to do with my boat
Regardless, we made it back fine, just made for a later supper at Riverside Cafe
vMuch to my colleague's distress we were already planning on going back out the next morning and we made our way to the new TRU hotel in Tallahassee.
The next morning was a bit rough but we got our gameplan together
We fished until 11 and called it after looking at the radar, we managed a few more trout near the lighthouse with the same lures and made a ton of memories. We even figured out the boat issue when taking the boat out.
It was also decided that this would be an annual 3 day affair going forward dubbed "The Annual SS Minnow Classic" while grabbing lunch
If youre just here for the fishing report, pink or white/chart shrimp, 3-3.5ft of water, water temp was 70-71F.
