ST. J's Creek- Sunday morning

[ronaultmtd]

Got up this am and decided to fish for a few hours- it was windy and rough, but hey, you fish when you can- I put a limit of keeper stripers in the bag and headed home to watch football- pictures will be added later

[ronaultmtd]

OK here are the pictures of the catch

[ictalurus]

Congrats on the striper limit, Ron. Those look like nice, healthy fish, too. What was the lure of choice?

[ronaultmtd]

Tsunami black silver popper- over where you and I got them

[kevinfry]

Fished the evening in that spot.....a bevy of 17 incher rocks and one 17 inch puppy drum.....just cant break the barrier. Tide was low low low when I started and coming in.

[J.A. Veil]

Good looking fish Ron. They are fatter than the ones I have been catching in Weems Creek recently.

[chex]

Nice going Ron. I wish I lived closer to St J so I could go back more often. I really like the place. Lots of different types of water to fish. Im glad you caught something to bring home.

[ronaultmtd]

I caught three redfish that were a hair under 18 inches (I tried to stretch them a quarter inch to make them legal but it didn't work)- all on Redfish Magic (changed out the soft plastic trailer with Gulp curly tails)...six small speckled trout 12-13 inches caught on XR-8 olive Rapala XRap...it was rough and windy- perfect Striper conditions...hard to hold your position in current and big chop, but productive on a fast-moving, out-going tide...small breakers were visible, so I thought that tossing a popper in the middle might work- yep, first cast- boom, big blowup, 20 1/2 inch fish...next cast 18 incher- got home in time for the 1 p.m. NFL kickoff- (lousy refs are screwing up my favorite football game)-

P.S. the fish were healthy, fat and fought good- 4 really nice boneless, skinless fillets