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Keaton Beach Fishing Report Jan.
20
This report from Keaton Beach:
1 - 7
Billy Persons, Kyle Warner, and Chase Williams had 9 trout with 3 over
20" with three reds using flukes in 2.5 feet of water.
1 - 8
Patti and Dennis Mixon of Live Oak, Fl. had 8
trout on Gulp and Rapalas in 3 feet of water.
Junior and Jake Berry of Keaton Beach with E.L
Sprayberry of Ashburn, Ga. had 7 trout with three over 20" using electric
chicken Catch 2000's
Steve Henley and Joe Smothers of Valdosta, Ga. had a cooler full of BSB
fishing in 30 feet of water offshore.
Mike King and a buddy both of Thomasville, Ga.
had a limit of trout Monday Jan 16.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report
Jan. 6-7
Well, the trout were fickle Wednesday, when the
first cold front went thru, ( It was very, very cold Wednesday a.m.)
recovered a bit on Friday... then got downright belligerent Saturday in the
calm, no -wind situation... then recovered again... somewhat, by Sunday and
Monday?
Here are some reports from the marina:
12/29-30/11 Ed & Brock Revels, Spencer Ensley
and Justin Watson all of Adel, Ga. had a great after Christmas get-away with
19 trout on the 29th and 20 trout on Friday with one flounder. This crew
fished live shrimp under Cajuns and a MirrOlure Catch 2000 in 2.5 - 3 feet
of water.
12/30 Josh and Parker Guy with Travis Arrington
of Fitzgerald and Tifton, Ga. had 13 very nice trout, with 3 over 22" and
two reds "using everything and anything" for bait in 1.5 - 2 feet of water.
12/31 Darby Hall and family of four from Coolidge, Ga. had four reds & 5
trout using pinfish and shrimp under Cajuns in 2 - 3 feet of water.
12/31 Offshore: Jane and Curt Pylant of Sycamore, Ga. had black sea
bass, pink mouth grunts and 2 red grouper using cutbait and pinfish for
bait.
1/1/12 William and Edna Kincheloe with three grandchildren onboard, all
of Albany, Ga. had 15 trout using a "silver topwater " in 2 - 4 feet of
water.
1/2/12 Edna caught the trout of a lifetime, on Monday, when she landed a
27" 6.5 pound sow trout on the same..Yep.."silver topwater"
1/1/12 Matt and Cindy Chastain and Brenda and Danny Reid of Talking
Rock, Ga. had 8 trout, Sunday, using a "copper colored soft jerkbait" in
4' - 6' of water.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report Dec. 30-31
Trout fishing had tailed off somewhat, following
the cold front Wednesday, after the warmer than usual start earlier in the
week. Trout were still hitting plugs like Bite-A-Bait Fighters in Copper
Stopper and Gold patterns as well as Cordell Ripplin Redfins. 1.5 - 3.5 feet
seemed to be the ticket for the pluggers, while live bait under Cajuns took
good fish to 4 feet earlier in the week.
I had Don Cook and his son, Adam Cook, of Perry,
Fl. out Monday and they managed 12 trout and a nice 25" red fish( Adams best
ever) The largest trout a 25" sow, Don landed on a Bite-A-Bait fighter in
Copper Stopper. The Cooks caught the balance of their fish on live shrimp
under Cajuns in 2.5 - 3.5 feet of water.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
12/22
Josh and Allen Boyd of Tifton, Ga. had 7 trout
and one BSB using New Penny Gulp in 2 - 4 ft. of water.
Teddy and Debbie Fletcher of Sycamore, Ga had
their limit of trout, and two reds, using live pinfish under Cajuns from 3.4
feet of water.
Charlie Harris and Charles Ray of Valdosta, Ga
had 7 trout, and one red, using a Ripplin' Redfin in 2 feet and New Penny
Gulp in 4 feet of water.
Glyn and Rachel McAllister with Zach Suttles,
all of Douglas, Ga. had 13 trout using "Cotton Cordells" in 3 feet of water.
12/26
Larry Bailey and Bill Varn of Franklin, North
Carolina had 9 trout using MirrOlure's Catch 2000's in 2 - 4 feet of water.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report 12/23/11
Trout fishing was Grand this week as trout ate
Bite-A-Bait Fighters, Cordell Redfins, MirrOlure's Catch 2000's, Saltwater
Assassin's Copper Penny Slurp, as well as live bait and Gulp under
Cajuns.....in other words just about anything ! The water temps have dropped
( as of today 12-21) from 63 degrees Saturday to 57-8 degrees. Trout should
continue to take baits worked slowly, especially the BAB fighters, Catch
2000's and MirrOdines, if the Gulf water temperature stays in the 55 - 60
degree range.
Saturday, Billy Pillow and I fished with
Bite-A-Bait fighters in 2.5 - 3 feet of water to land 12 keepers, of which
we kept 10. Most of these fish were 18"- 19" Billy had top honors with a
trout over 23" which ate the Gold pattern BAB fighter. We had a lot of
company or we could have gotten done much sooner. We fished from 1:00 p.m.
'til 4:00 p.m.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
12/16-17 Neil Kicklighter & family of Tifton, Ga
had 6 trout and 2 reds to 24" then,
the next day, had a limit of trout on Saturday
fishing with Gulp "gobies" in 2.5 to 3 feet of water.
12/16-17 Craig and Will Howell, also of Tifton,
Ga. caught 2 trout, an 18" and 21"er, one red and a nice flounder in 3 - 4
feet on Gulp Gobies
then on Saturday had 7 trout and
two blues in 3 - 4 feet of water on the same
baits.
12/17 Charles Ray & John Martin of Valdosta, Ga.
had a limit of 10 trout and two reds fishing Cordell Redfins in 2 - 4 feet
of water.
12/18 Archie and Patsy Davis of Lee, Florida had
6 trout and a flounder fishing with Gulp, rigged under a Cajun Thunder, in 2
- 4 feet of water.
12/20 Larry Carter and two friends from Lake
Park, Ga had 15 trout and 2 reds fishing with live pinfish under Cajun
Thunders in 2 - 4 feet of water.
12/20 Danny Sweat, Drew and Coby Pyrz (
pronounced "pierce") ? with Don O'Steen of Boston, Ga had 8 trout, a
flounder and a snagged mullet while fishing Bass Assassin Slurp in the
"Copper Penny" pattern while jigging in 2 - 3 feet of water.
that's It! except for .....
MERRY
CHRISTMAS!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report December 16 -17 2011
Trout have responded well to the warmer weather
this week and are taking a little of everything....plugs, both topwater and
suspending baits, Gulp, and live bait under Cajuns. Expect the weekend to
hold some grand fishing if the current trends hold up. Oh, and a breeze
would be nice?
Friday, I took Ken and Dale Cooper of Valdosta,
Ga out and we brought back 15 trout and two flounder caught on live shrimp
and live pinfish under Cajuns from 2.5 - 3.5 ft. of water.
Here are a couple of reports from Keaton Beach
Marina:
12/9 -12/10 Arty Delcheieko of Perry, Fl.. had a
limit of trout and a redfish, both Friday and Saturday. Arty was throwing "topwater"
in 1 - 2 feet of water.
12/9 Bob Pease, Harry Montivedeo, Rick Free and
Ben Free of Athens, Ga. had 20 trout, to 24" and four reds, to 27" fishing
with Yozuri suspending baits and New Penny Gulp from 2 - 3 feet of water.
Keaton Beach Fishing
Report Dec. 8-9
Hey, remember prez. Bush's crew ( Texas oil
money ) telling y'all there was no global warming? you ate that stuff up....
along with that WOMD bull.
Anyway with the water temps in the Gulf acting
like a yo-yo, the trout don't know which way to go... in or out ....shallow
or deep? I would say most folks are doing their best in 3 feet of water on
live shrimp and pinfish rigged under Cajuns. Cordell Redfish and other hard
jerkbaits are catching some good trout, as well, if you can catch a breeze,
that is. Assassin's Root beer Sea shads are also taking some fish. Keaton is
THE place to fish now, as Gulf water temps are back into the lo sixties and
going up!
Jimmy Douglas took a couple of other guys ( all
from Homerville, Ga.) out and they had a limit of trout Sunday, fishing with
live shrimp and pinfish under Cajun Thunder in three feet of water. Jimmy
said their better fish came on pinfish. They limited out in under three
hours!
Here are the reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
12/1-2 Eric and Carol Bortolozzi of New Smyrna
Beach, Fl. had 3 trout( one 25") and one flounder in 2 ft. of water while
fishing with Assassin Root Beer Sea Shads under a Cajun Thunder. Then Friday
they had a 27" red on the same rig....and I saw Eric, Sunday, and he had
five nice trout... I guess on the same Assassin Root Beer bait.
12/2 Bob Emmett, Ron Bailey and Clyde Mathis of
Thomasville, Ga. had a limit of 15 trout(one 24 inches long) and two 24"
reds to go with them using Cordell Redfins in 2.5
feet of water.
12/2 Randy Davis and Geno Hasty of Ashburn, Ga.
had a limit of trout and one "HUGE" Black Sea Bass and caught and released a
40" red, while fishing with live shrimp under Cajuns in 2.5 - 4 feet of
water.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report Dec. 3
Trout fishing was great before the w-i-n-d and
rain hit Sunday and Monday. Live pinfish and shrimp rigged under Cajuns,
topwater plugs, and Berkley Gulp have all taken fish over the Thanksgiving
weekend. Water temps in the Gulf had dropped from 72-73 degrees to 62 - 63
degrees by Monday and will probably be in the upper 50's by the weekend.
Jimmy Douglas of Heritage Home Builders in
Homerville, Ga. took Frank Smith, MaryAnn and W.C. Burkhalter out with him
Saturday, and they limited out on trout with 20 fish over 16" with four over
22" Jimmy fished in 3.5 - 4 feet of water with live Pinfish and Shrimp under
Cajuns. This crew also had one keeper red and 11 black sea bass. Jimmy had a
40+ inch long red on only to lose it to "popped line" ( an event occurring
when patience and drags are too tight) They also lost a sow trout "around
five plus pounds" Both fish left taking the entire Cajun Thunder rigs with
them!
Here are some reports from Saturday's fishing
from Keaton Beach Marina:
11/26 Pat and Jay Thornhill of Griffin, Ga. had
their limit of trout using plugs in 3 - 3.5 feet of water.
Wyatt Haney of Quitman, Ga. had his limit of
trout and two flounder on New Penny Gulp in 2.5 feet of water.
Ed and Jace Newton of Tifton, Ga. had 6 trout
and 6 black sea bass using topwater plugs and Gulp in 3.5 ft.
Ray Southerland of Adel, Ga. had a limit of
trout to 25" and 6 black sea bass in 3' - 4' of water using live pinfish
under Cajuns.
Eric Slaughter took Aunt Punk and caught their
limit of trout and two reds on topwater from 2.5 feet of water.
11/27 Eric S. went out again, this time, with
Vince Freeman and caught reds releasing three over 30" and keeping a 26" and
24"er. again on plugs.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report
Nov. 22
Trout, Flounder, Reds, Black Sea Bass everything
is biting at Keaton Beach! Water temps were back up to 72 degrees this week
which is phenomenally high for the week of Thanksgiving? If we get the
promised rain this week it should greatly improve the too clear water
conditions of late? I caught and released a 44 inch red approximately 30
pounds light, Sunday, caught on an Assassin five inch Shad Assassin and 10
pound test Trik Fish line. Zach Cook of Woodstock, Ga. had a 31 " red while
fishing with me Wednesday 11/23.
We have had some great charters this past week,
on board One More Cast including a limit of trout for Carl Beck of
Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Carl Sheffield of Athens, Ga. whose top ten trout
weighed a whopping 28.5 pounds on 11/18/11 in 18 - 20 knot w-i-n-d-s! They
caught them on live pinfish and live shrimp under Cajuns in 2.5 -3 ft. of
water.
Monday, I took Jared Singletary of Thomasville,
Ga. out with Robbie Green and Jason Loper and we had 20 trout with four over
20 inches long with one redfish, flour bsb and two flounder ( one19") We
fished live shrimp and pinfish under Cajuns in 3-4 feet of water.
Tuesday, I had Zach Cook and Nathan Alexander of
Woodstock, Ga out and we landed 15 trout with three over 21" long and a
25.5" redfish. We fished live pinfish under Cajun in 3.5 - 4 feet of water.
Wednesday this same pair had 13 trout, a bsb and
three reds (we kept) & two more, including a 31"er, we released.
here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
11/18-19 Justin Fender of Douglas, Ga. with
Jerry Landrum, Anthony Stallings and Roger Henderson of Tennessee had 15
trout one flounder and a 26" red while bouncing New Penny Gulp in 4.5 feet
of water.
11/19: Robert, Tracey and John Setters from
Tifton, Ga. had 11 trout from 2.5 -4 feet of water using live pinfish and
Gulp under Cajuns.
Robert and Peggy Stokes with Bobby Proctor of
Madison, Fl. had 10 trout and a bunch of bsb from 5 ft. with Gulp.
11/19-20 Randy and Theresa Bozeman of Hahira,
Ga. with John and Brenda Carter of Thomasville, Ga. had 6 reds, 14 trout,
two flounder ad 8 bsb while fishing with Gulp in 2.5 - 6 feet of water.
Jimmy and Rhonda Stone of Tifton, Ga. had 3
reds, to 21" and 4 trout fishing with new Penny Gulp from 2 - 4 feet of
water.
11/22 Charles Backes of Lake Park , Ga. had his
limit of five trout fishing with New Penny Gulp under a Cajun Thunder.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report Nov 18-19
Trout are eating a little of everything, with
fish being caught on Assassin plastic, Bite-A-Bait fighters, live shrimp and
pinfish under Cajun Thunders, Gulp both bounced and under Thunders.Gulf
water temps were back up to 66-68 degrees Tuesday,Yet will probably drop
back down this weekend. 2 - 4 feet seemed to be the best depth on the flats.
Tuesday, 11/15, we had 15 trout with two over
twenty and an 18" flounder for Bion Williams and John Harrington of
Valdosta, Ga. while fishing with live shrimp and pinfish under Cajuns in 3.5
- 4 feet of water. Our water temperature was 66 in the canal this am. and 68
this afternoon. We fished in the fog with no breeze whatsoever.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
11/11 Ray Plunkett of Dixie,Ga. Mike Grinek and
Troy Murray of Thomasville and John May of Colquitt, Ga. had 8 trout and 4
bsb using New Penny Gulp and White Gulp in 4 - 6 feet of water.
11/12 Sonny Bethea, Mike Williams and Larry
Alderman of Lee, Fl. had 15 trout and 3 flounder while using Gulp Shrimp in
Glow and Molting patterns from 3 feet of water.
11/13 Shannon Vick, fishing with Blyan Martin
and Chris Cannington of Adel, Ga.caught a 30 lb black Drum ( unusual for
Keaton Beach) using a four inch New Penny Gulp!
11/13 Charlie Harris and Ben Winters of Valdosta, Ga. had their limit of
trout with one 26.5" trout to anchor their stringer.This duo also had a
27" red. They were fishing in three feet of water with white pearl Gulp
under Cajun Thunders.
Offshore: Jason Witherspoon, Harold Dasher and
Scott Nobles of Valdosta, Ga had their limit of gag grouper with one red
grouper and a bunch of bsb using cigar minnows and squid in 20 - 25 feet of
water.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report November 11-12,
2011
I still love the w-i-n-d, as I took Johnny Jackson his
son, Nolen and his soon to be son-in-law Blake Odom, all of Opp, Alabama out
Saturday and we brought in 20 trout, three reds and eight BSB. in 20 Knot w-i-n-d!
Oh, and Nolen caught a 27", 6.3 pound Gator Trout on a live shrimp under a
Cajun.( the largest trout caught on board One More Cast ...so far..this
year!) I had carried shrimp with us; but these guys were using pinfish and I
couldn't get them to try the shrimp....so when things slowed down a bit in
the afternoon, and the tide was at a standstill, I asked Nolen to try a
shrimp? Boom! the 6.3 hit the first one he cast out. I didn't have to ask
him to try them again and he fished mostly live shrimp Sunday, while the
rest used live pinfish. ( all rigged under Cajun Thunders) Sunday, we hit it
again and caught another 20 trout, four reds ( three for Nolen) and two
black sea bass. The w-i-n-d was down to 15-18K early and 8-10K late. I had
two of our trout including a 20.5 inch long fish, Sunday, on Assassin's Pink
Ghost sea shad.
Ed Thomas of TGIF charters had a limit of trout and reds for his two guys,
down with the Jacksons from Opp, Alabama, Cale and George Pierce both
Saturday and Sunday as well. He was using live pinfish Saturday and shrimp
and pinfish under Cajuns on Sunday.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
11/5-6 James Murphy and Michael Adams of Adel , Ga. had 5 trout and 7 Big
BSB on Saturday, then Sunday, they managed 6 keeper trout."different kinds
of jigs" is what they were fishing with. 3 - 6 feet was the depth.
11/6 Phillip and Kyle Sellers with Jesse Knight all of Rentz. Ga. had 8 tout
and two reds using live shrimp under Cajuns in 3 feet of water.
11/5 Jimmy and Rhonda Stone and Mike Ellis of Tifton, Ga. had 7 trout and
six BSB from 3 feet of water using live pinfish under Cajuns.
11/6 Jimmy Stone and Mike Ellis had their limit of trout using New Penny in
2 - 4 feet of water.
here is a report e-mailed to me:
"Hey Pat,
Had Ray Toler and his two sons, Brett and Daniel down from Sandersville(Ga.)
Saturday and Sunday. Saturday, we had a limit of 20 trout, 12 BSB and one
red. The trout were caught on a combination of mostly live pinfish and
Saltwater Assassin 5" eels in the electric chicken color. The redfish was
caught on a Thunder Spin, tied up 18" under a Cajun Thunder in 6 feet of
water. Hey, I didn't rig it. I was just driving the boat.
Sunday, in four hours, we had 18 trout and 2 BSB. These trout were caught
mostly on live shrimp, and after a tip from you Saturday nite, Saltwater
Assassin eels in the Candy Corn color. For the two days we had 8 trout over
20 inches. Thanks," Mike Johnson, Macon, Ga.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report November 4 - 5 2011
Wow, I
love the fronts of October and November as they bring us some great fishing, if
you can hang out there? The trout didn't move really...but the man, the water
did? Most folks gave it up and went home; especially after fighting it out there
Saturday? I guess? This weekend should see great fishing, well for plug fishing
anyway, as the floating grass should be blown away after this week's w-i-n-d-s.
Expect the cooler water to have fish "ready to fight" when they do hit and slow
down your presentation until you match their new metabolism?
First,
though, before the front Friday, I had John and Leigh Turner of White, Ga. with
their daughter, Heather of Sherman Oaks, California and we brought in 18 trout
with two over 20" and kept four of five keeper reds! We had bites everywhere we
fished and caught a lot of short trout as well as those we kept. We fished 3.5 -
4.5 feet of water with live pinfish under Cajun Thunders. Everyone who fished
caught their limit or close to it.... it was "allie allie in free" day! Oh and
one of the prettiest days I have ever been on the water! Keaton Beach...Hard to
BEAT!
Saturday,
it blew 15 - 18 knots out of the North-Northwest and I had Bill Torrey of St.
Simons, Ga. along with his son, Sam Torrey of Atlanta, Ga. with Monty Lewis of
Thomasville, Ga. and we caught 20 trout and four BSB. We fished 2.0' to 4.0'
feet with live pinfish and pigfish under Cajuns.
I had
this same crew with me Sunday, and despite 40 degrees temps with 20-25 knot W-i-n-d-s,
we went out around 10:00 a.m. and caught some beautiful trout with four over 20"
with two of those over 22" When it was all over, around 4:00 p.m. we brought in
15 trout and a Spanish. The water temp had dropped around 8 degrees from
Saturday and 10 degrees from Friday?
From
Keaton Beach Marina:
"Archie
and Patsy Davis of Lee, Florida had 8 trout, I red Sunday the 25th, while
fishing with "Pumpkin Chartreuse" under a Thunder. ( I have no idea what
"pumpkin chartreuse" is?
here's a
report emailed to me Monday,
"Pat,
Just a quick note, my neighbor Rick Schmitz and I went out Saturday, endured the
wind and had a great day 2 Reds, 9 Trout we caught close to 25 Trout all on top
water in 1 to 2 ft. of water. I went out Sunday around 11:00 a.m. fished until
2:00 p.m. caught close to 20 Trout with Pin Fish under a Cajun & released all I
caught, I was just having a blast. ( from)
Bill Slaughter,
Valdosta & Keaton Beach
By the way Bill's boat was the only boat we saw
Sunday......most folks turned tail and ran home, afraid to fish in the 20-25
knot w-i-n-d Sunday?
Keaton Beach Fishing Report October 28-29 2011
The cooler temperatures, which dropped the
Gulf's water temperature down 10-15 degrees in a couple of days, slowed the
trout for some folks; yet gave others a better focus of where to search and
they brought in some fine trout caught on plugs and Assassin plastic, as
well as Gulp, over the weekend. I saw two boats with limits of trout,
including Dion Knight who had a limit of trout and one red for he and his
wife, Julie on Sunday. They fished live pinfish under Cajun Thunders to land
their fish. I fished, while I caught bait Sunday, and in less than two hours
had five trout, also on live pinfish under Cajuns, from 3.5 - 4 feet of
water.
The water temperatures had come back up five or
so degrees, on Monday, from Saturday morning's low of 67 degrees; so I would
expect some great fishing this weekend if the conditions are favorable.
Saturday, Cal Beanblossom and Glen Ford of
Sylvester, Ga. had a limit of trout in 3 - 4 feet of water, despite motor
problems, and caught fish on Bite-A-Bait fighters( including two over 20")
and on live shrimp and live pinfish under Cajuns.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
10/22 Patricia and Durl Baldree of Lenox, Ga.
had 9 trout, 2 blues and 8 BSB fishing with Pearl White and New Penny Gulp
in 6 -7 feet of water
10/23 Jim Parker and Ben Auldig of Thomasville,
Ga. had their limit of ten trout and one redfish while fishing with live
pinfish and New Penny Gulp under Cajun Thunders
in 3 - 4 feet water.
10/23 Jason and Tracey Henely of Gray, Ga. had
10 trout, 11 BSB and 3 Spanish bouncing New Penny Gulp in 6 - 7 feet of
water.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report 10/21-22/2011
WOW!!! What a great Week! We caught fish all
week on my One More Cast charters on a little of everything, but mostly on
live pinfish under Cajuns. We took trout and reds on plugs and on Assassin
Sea shads bounced on an 1.8 oz. Pro Elite jig head. We caught trout, reds,
black sea bass, blues, Spanish Mackerel & flounder, for the cooler and threw
back sail cats, hard head cats, ladyfish, sharks, lizardfish, and a short
cobia as well.
I had limits of trout for my charters on 7 of
the 8 days I fished and we had seven trout and 18 black sea bass on the off
day! Reds were plentiful early last week and scarce by Monday of this week?
We are catching a bunch of nice Black Sea Bass to 13' as well. 4 - 6 feet
seems to be the best for me.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
10/12 Tom Vafias and Steve Henderson of Tifton,
Ga. had 10 trout on" gulp soaked baits" "straight" in 5 - 6 feet of water.
10/14 Pat Barbaree of Perry Florida had one trout 2 reds one keeper on live
shirmp c&r a 30" red also.
Mike Mash of Perry Fl. had 5 trout and a red from 3-5 feet of water using
live pinfish under a Cajun.
Craig and Sherry Fletcher with Bill Wright, all of Keaton Beach had 11 trout
and two reds using live shrimp under a Cajun Thunder from 3 - 4 feet of
water.
10/16 Karen and Eddie Brown, of Tifton, Ga. had a Pompano, 9 trout and
12 black sea bass fishing with glow Gulp in 5.5 feet of water.
offshore:
10/15The Crumps of Valdosta,Ga took 1 grouper
and three hog fish and had a Big Pile of BSB and Pink Mouth grunts from 50
feet of water
that's it! Let's Go Fishing!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report October 14-15 2011
I wish I had all the results of the Elks Tourney, but alas I simply wasn't
able to collect them up in time.
I can however give you one, or rather two, of the winners... as Billy Pillow
and I won the red-trout portion of the tournament? I was as surprised as anyone,
as I didn't think 9.4 pounds was going to be enough to win the thing? Billy and
I decided to fish the tourney two weeks ago and when we saw the 20 - 25 knot
forecast, decided to only fish for the 5-slot trout category figuring plugging
for BIG trout and reds would be tougher than tough in those conditions! Did I
mention it was an East w-i-n-d? Well Billy caught trout all day including a
19",18",17" and a a few 16" trout and I finally contributed a 19.5 inch trout
with bait (after throwing plugs of all descriptions for over three hours without
a keeper.) Reds ? Reds were easy as Billy caught a 26" red after an hour or so
of fishing and quickly added another 23 incher. He threw back three more keeper
reds and I actually caught and threw back another 24" red. We had less than an
hour 'til the tide was to stop and Billy brought in a 24+" trout. So, we quit at
1:30 as the w-i-n-d stepped it up to 25 knots when the tide flipped. We weighed
in around 2:15 p.m went home to watch football, then found out later we had
actually won the red-trout and came in fourth, with 9.6 pounds, just out of the
money, in the five slot-trout category? Billy threw back a dozen 15+ inch trout,
during the day, to go with the nine keepers we brought in? We had a great time
and got a bonus of winning some coin to boot. By the way, We caught all our fish
on live pinfish under Cajun Thunders! Every last one of them! Thanks to the
Perry Elks Club and to Keaton Beach Marina for the Tournament!
"Fished with Milt Johnson Fri (10/7) and Sat (10/8) morning. Got blown /
rained out Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Caught a limit of trout and a few BSB
Friday. Saturday we picked up 4 red fish with 2 that we kept and a few nice
trout. Had several trout in the 15-16" range. Milt picked up a nice 29" red
early on a MirroMinnow, I believe in the "18" color. Picked up a blue, couple of
trout, and several ladies on the same lure. Most of the trout fell to pinfish,
but we also picked up a few on New Penny Gulp all under a Cajun. Our bite Friday
came in 5'-6', Saturday in 3'-4'." from David Bosch of Tifton, Ga.
I took Larry and Stephen Cook of Powder Springs, Ga. out Tuesday ( 10/11) and
we got their limit of trout and three reds ( we threw back three more keeper
reds) Larry caught the largest trout on a Bronze Renegade, and two reds on an
electric chicken Renegade, but the balance of our fish came from live pinfish
rigged under a Cajun Thunder. we fished from 2.5 - 4.5 feet of water on the
rising tide.
Peng Chee, also of Tifton, Ga. with his buddy Robert Wright of Lubbock,
Texas. ( Heck fire folks, I thought "Lubbock" Texas was just a made-up name from
Hollywood?) fished Tuesday, October 11th and had his ten trout while fishing
with live pinfish under Cajuns from 4.5-5.5 feet of water.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
10/5-6 Bobby Whitehead and John Hardwick of Tifton, Ga. had 16 trout to 19'
using Gulp in 6.5 feet of water.
10/5-6 Ken McMillan, Bill Ivey, and Zach Goss, of Atlanta, Ga. had 30 trout
to 22" for their two-day limit. They also landed a 38" red they released...
reluctantly.. all while fishing with Assassin's Electric chicken sea shads and
Gulp in New Penny.
10/8 Drew Ruttinger and family had 7 trout to 21" using pinfish and live
shrimp under Cajun Thunders in 4 - 7 ft of water. (sorry, I do not know where
the Ruttingers are from? But I would bet it wasn't Lubbock, Texas!)
Now, some very sad news.
Mrs. Vera Shiver of Mayo, Florida passed from this grand green earth
Sunday,10/9/11. I miss her already and will always remember her boundless
energy, her extraordinary memory, her marvelous cooking, her remarkable
endurance, her immutable patience, her amiable attitude, her steadfast spirit,
her gracious generosity and as Joyce said immediately upon hearing the sad, sad
news, "her warm and wonderful smile."
" Vera, the world is a smaller place now, without you in it, oh and by the
way, How does St. Peter like your biscuits?"
Keaton Beach Fishing Report 10/7-8/2011
The trout have been taking Assassin Sea shads,
DOA shrimp, Berkley Gulp and live shrimp and pinfish under Cajuns from 3 - 6
feet of water. Offshore grouper, grunts, and black sea bass have all been
cooperative.
here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
9/29 Mike O'Field of Homosassa Springs and Ray
Carlile of O'Brien, Florida had their limit of trout while fishing with
Assassin Cantaloupe sea shads and live pinfish under Cajuns in 3 - 6 feet of
water.
9/30 Mike O'Field used a White DOA Shrimp and
Assassin Sea shads to land four trout from 3 feet of water.
10/1 Jacob Pope, Gabe Stone and Natalie Davis of
Monticello, Fl. had 9 trout, a flounder and several black sea bass using
live shrimp and Gulp under Cajuns in 3 - 4 feet of water.
10/2 - 3 Bill and Mark Harrison of Winder, Ga.
had their limit of trout, both days, throwing a bone "Spook" in 4 - 6 feet
of water.
offshore:
9/29 Ray Horn John Block and Paul Hudson of
Gainesville Florida had three keeper red grouper, some Big Black Sea Bass
and a slew of pink mouth grunts from 37 -62 feet of water on sardines and
squid.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report October 1
Trout fishing picked up nicely, over the
weekend, at least for those fishing the top of the incoming tide.
Saturday Ray Carlile and I had nine trout to
24.5 "and two keeper reds while fishing with live pinfish under a Cajun in 4
- 4.5 feet of water.
We caught them all in under two hours
I took Jimmy Douglas, Sammy Tolle and Matt
Rodgers all of Homerville, Ga. out and we brought in 17 trout, three
Spanish, two reds, and five black sea bass. We had three keeper trout taken
on FishBite's Extreme Release pink Jerkshads under a Cajun, while the
balance of our fish came in on live pinfish and pigfish rigged under a
Cajun. We fished 4-5.5 feet of water. we had two Spanish and three blacks
after two and a half hours then caught most of our fish in a two hour period
in the second half of the incoming tide.
Here are a few reports from Keaton Beach Marina.
9/23-24
Mack Willis and Bucky Crenshaw of Sylvester, Ga.
had their limit of trout for two days, while fishing with Assassin's Candy
Corn and New Penny Sea Shads from 4 feet of water
9/24
Debbie and William Gaskins of Warner Robins, Ga.
had 6 trout over 18" fishing New Penny and Pearl White Gulp under a Cajun
Thunder from 5 feet of water.
Randy Davis, Davis Jones and Tyler Walker of
Worth County, Ga. had 6 trout using live pinfish under Cajuns in 4 - 6 feet
of water
Jordan Dale of Keaton Beach had 2 trout from 7
feet of water using Nuclear Chicken Gulp.
9/25
Jordan Dale and Austin Amundson had 2 trout over
20" using topwater in 4 - 6 feet of water.
Mike O'Field of Homosassa Springs, Fl. came up
for the week and started off grand with a limit of trout from 4 - 4.5 feet
(with trout one over 20") using Assassin's Cantaloupe Sea Shads. Then
Tuesday, Mike limited out again, this time with Assassin's Cantaloupe and
the NEW "Pink Ghost" colored sea shad in 3 - 3.5 feet of water.
That's it!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report September 24-25 2011
Trout have begun to be more cooperative of late
with limits getting easier to come by. Live pinfish and Berkley Gulp took
most of the fish at Keaton last week from 3 - 6 feet of water. A few reds
also came in, which is more than we had been seeing after the two storms
early in the month stirred the water up.
Saturday ( 9-17) I took Tom Kisamore of Perry,Fl.
with Lavon and Anthony Shiver of Thomasville, Ga. out and we brought in 15
trout, two Spanish, a blue and an 8 -9 lb. Jack Crevalle. The jacks were
busting bait, under the birds, with the blues and we lost quite a few rigs
tossing live pinfish under Cajuns at the foray. We caught our trout in 4 - 6
feet of water.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
9/13 Charlie Spivey, and Junior Berry of Keaton
Beach, Fl. had a limit of trout using Cherry Seed Gulp in 8 - 10 feet of
water.
9/16 Ron and Carolyn Cadle of Live Oak, Fl. had
5 trout, 4 rock bass and two reds with Gulp in 4 - 5 feet of water.
9/17 Mike, Michael and Amanda Delk of Tifton,
Ga. had 5 trout, 3 reds to 24" Oh, and one red was caught on a size #12 hook
while trying to catch pinfish!
The rest of the Delk's fish came in on Gulp in 3
- 5 feet of water.
9/18 Bill Rodgers, Larry Whitt and Michael
O'Grady of Moultrie, Ga had 20 trout to 19.5" Friday and Saturday, using
live pinfish under Cajuns in 3 - 6 feet of water.
Scallop Season ends Sunday.......with a
whimper.....
Keaton Beach Fishing Report Sept 16 -17 2011
We had some nice trout; but found the reds
scarce since Saturday, as I took Joyce's Dad, Dick B. and cousin Larry
Brezinski of Chicagoland out fishing three days. We had 11, 9 and 10 trout
for the trips and couldn't round up a red for the three days? We caught all
our fish on live pinfish under Cajuns in 5.5 - 6.5 feet of water on the
rising tide. Most days we couldn't beg a drift for three hours in the a.m.
and managed to salvage our days in the afternoon with a little breeze
finally.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
9/9 Travis and Dallas Ingram of Tifton, Ga. had
their limit of trout with one over 20" and a nice Spanish Mackerel, while
using Renegade plugs in less than 7 feet of water.
Lonnie and Charles Combass, of Jasper, Florida
tried live shrimp and cut bait in 4 - 5 feet of water and bested 8 trout and
a couple of rock bass.
Tom Vafias and Steve Henderson of Tifton, Ga
caught 19 trout, with two over 20", a 22" redfish and a rock bass fishing
with Gulp Nuclear Chicken and New Penny in feet of water Friday and
Saturday.
9/10 Paul Wilson and Family from Valdosta, Ga.
had 11 trout and 3 reds using live pinfish under Cajuns in 3 feet of water
Saturday.
Theresa and Randy Bozeman with Dana Williams of
Hahira, Ga. had 12 trout, a dozen or so black sea bass, 2 reds and one Sp.
Mackerel all using Berkley Gulp New Penny in 3 - 5 feet of water.
Jim and Ginger Hightower of Valdosta,Ga. hung a
100 plus pound Tarpon and fought in 40 minutes ( on a 4" gulp shrimp under a
Cajun) from 6 feet of water
9/11 Champ and Tammy Klein of Ormond Beach, Fla.
had a 20" blue in 4 - 5 feet of water using Pearl White Gulp.
Haven't seen many scallops this week?
Keaton Beach Fishing Report September 9 -10
Well... o.k. H. "Irene" not "Emily" sorry for
the mistake last week?
Not many folks got to do much over the holiday
weekend at Keaton, after Saturday anyway, due to "T.S. Lee" however Ray
Carlile of McAlpin, Fl. and I fished Friday and caught 8 trout in four
hours with one just over 24". Believe it or not, at one time (for over an
hour) we had no w-i-n-d whatsoever, despite a NOAA forecast of 15+ knots? We
caught all our trout in 4.5 - 5.5 feet of water, from 1:45 p.m. til 4:00
p.m. using live pinfish under Cajun Thunders. No reds, however we didn't
fish the hi tide, which was just after 6 p.m. Friday.
This report, albeit brief, from Dave Bosch of
Tifton, Ga. who fished with Cheng and Calvin Pee, also of Tifton. "Fished
with Peng and Calvin. Wound up with 10 trout and one nice Redfish. Had a few
more good-ones escape our hooks. We had our best bite on the rising tide, in
the afternoon in 4' of water, on pinfish and Cajuns."
Here are two reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
8/28 The Walker Wainwright Family of Reynolds,
Ga. had 18 trout from 4 - 8 ft. of water while using Gulp.
8/29 Junior and Jake Berry of Perry, Florida had
5 trout and 5 Black Sea Bass from 7 - 8 feet of water bouncing Berkley Gulp
That's it this week ...maybe next week's weather
will allow us to fish and scallop at Keaton Beach!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report Labor Day Weekend 2011
This "Last Hurray" or as many would have it be (
not I) i.e. Labor Day Weekend is instead, just the beginning of Great Fall
fishing for me and my One More Cast charters.
Reds have begun schooling up already, as last
week witnessed several boats, including mine, releasing multiple reds after
catching their limit. Trout fishing was still good despite high winds on the
outer edge of H. Emily.
Friday, I took Billy Pillow, of Woods 'N Water
Fishing Team fame, out and we brought back 8 trout with two over 20", a 24"
red and two Spanish. The w-i-n-d was blowing around 10 - 12 miles an hour
most of the day. We caught all our fish in less than 2 hours while coming up
empty earlier in the tide.
Reds were blasting our Cajun Thunders and the
baits under them Saturday, as Ray Carlile and I caught and released four
reds, with one just over the slot, in less than an hour's time. The trout
turned on during the same drift, as well, giving us a limit in less than 45
minutes! Ray's largest was a 24" trout which ate a pinfish in 5.5 feet of
water. We were fishing with live pigfish and pinfish under Cajuns in 15 -18
knot w-i-n-ds, Saturday and the fish were loving it! We lost one rig
entirely to the reds and another Cajun rig? well they just released the red(
broke him off) and mangled the Cajun up like you ran over it with the truck!
When you have two over-the-slot reds tugging on both ends of your rig
something has to give? We had already kept two reds up to 26" on another
drift and moved over to a hump just to check things out, when the school of
larger reds attacked! It's a blast!
Scallopers were disappointed with murky waters
associated with the Northwest and West w-i-n-d-s up to 18-20 knots over the
weekend. Things should lay down nicely and the water clear up considerably
by Labor Day Weekend and the Gulf waters at Keaton Beach will yield a bunch
more scallops, albeit from 5 - 8 feet of water still.
Remember to be SAFE!
oh and FLY YOUR DIVE FLAGS! It's the LAW !
Keaton Beach Fishing Report August 26 - 27
Between showers a few folks have gone fishing. A
few more were scalloping.
these two reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
8/18 Keith and Lisa Hodges of Valdosta, Ga. had
8 trout one red and 5 black sea bass using New Penny Gulp in 5 ft . of water
8/19 Keith & Lisa had 6 trout and one red on New
Penny Gulp from 5 feet again on Friday.
I went scalloping twice this week and the
scallops are larger and the meat ( muscle) is larger as well. Best yield I
can recall.
Joyce and I got our scallop limit Tuesday 8/23
from 3.5 - 5.5 feet of water. We saw an 18" flounder and a 25" - 26" red,
while we were snorkeling and that is only the third red I have swam up on in
20 years of scalloping off Taylor County's coast.
The scallops were delicious, bacon/wrapped on a
bamboo skewer; then grilled with a very light coating barbecue sauce on
them?
What a great finish to a great day on the water
from Keaton Beach. Very few boats out there, what with school started back
up in Ga. and Fla.
That's it.....Remember to fly your dive flags!
IT"S THE LAW!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report
August 19 - 20
Trout fishing has improved this past week with
the rains and cooler weather knocking the water temps down and the higher
tides and stronger currents adding oxygen to the equation. Live pinfish
under Cajuns seemed to be the ticket for success in 4 - 6 feet of water. A
few reds were caught mixed in with the trout; yet bit in 3.5 - 4 ft.
Last Thursday, I had Billy Pillow on board and
he landed 8 of our 10 trout in just over and hour on two drifts. I managed
two of our trout. We caught them all on live pinfish and pigfish under
Cajuns in 5.5 - 6 feet of water.
Friday, I took Jared Singletary of Thomasville,
Ga. out with Hartley Holton and Alan Davis of Horseshoe Plantation of
Tallahassee and we brought back ten trout, a red and a couple of Black Sea
Bass. We fished with live pinfish and pigfish under Cajun Thunders in 4.5
-6.5 feet of water. Hartley jumped a Tarpon on a little 2.5" pinfish while
searching for a red; but it sawed through his thirty pound leader in less
than 10 minutes?
From David Bosch of Tifton, Ga.
"Fished Saturday (8/13) with Peng and Calvin (Chee also of Tifton) We
wound up with a limit of trout and enough scallops for an appetizer.
fished topwater plugs 'til I got aggravated with the grass, got some
interest early... but no hookups. Fished Gulps off the bottom for a
while, finally had to give them what they wanted (pins under
Thunders). Did cut a few open and they were full of shrimp. I guess
from the full moon and nighttime shrimp feast? Did our best in 4' -
5' slightly stained water from around 1 - 3 (p.m.) last of the rise.
Caught one short red out there, which caught us by surprise. Water
temps still 87-92(degrees)" DB
Billy Pillow and I fished Tuesday, August 16 and had 10 trout from
6.5 - 5 feet of water, all on one long drift from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
while fishing with live pinfish and pigfish under Cajuns we had two
trout almost 20" long. Then we left that spot and tried for a red,
the first bait Billy threw out, on a shortened Cajun Thunder rig
(24" total vs. 38" we were using earlier) in 3.2 feet of water
yielded a 21" trout, which I shook off the hook. My second bait
yielded a trout near 4 pounds and that one too, I shook off. Then
Billy caught another trout over 20" and he shook it off the hook
without handling it as well. Finally, after a couple of catfish, he
hooked up and landed a 21" red ; so one more bait each and we quit
to go catch bait for my Wednesday charter. Oh yeah, we had three
keeper black sea bass from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. at another spot.
Scallopers are still "deep sea diving" in 6 -10 feet of water for
scallops yet finding the size of the shells and the meat is larger
(this to be expected from an organism which only lives an average of
12 -16 months) now that the scallops have made it to August. If a
scallop egg was deposited on the flats in early June of 2010, then
it would be would be 14 months old about now. Smaller scallops
picked up earlier in the year were probably late-bloomers and were
"born" in September 2010 and were only 10 - 11 months old when
harvested in June or July 2011. 4 months is a long time, if you only
live to be 12-16 months old.
Let's Go Fishing!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report August 12 -13, 2011
Thursday, Billy Pillow and I ( Billy mostly) had 9 trout and three black sea
bass fishing with live pinfish under Cajuns from 6.5 - 4.5 feet of water.
Friday, I had Jared and Shannon Larson on board and they managed 8 trout and
a black sea bass. We also fished with live pinfish and pigfish under Cajuns
in 5 - 7 feet of water.
here are two reports e-mailed to me this week
"Pat, My name is Mark Moneyhan and I am from Perry.(Florida) Saturday,
August 6, 2011, my grandson, Mark Alan, and I were trout fishing off Keaton
Beach in 10.5' of water. We were fishing with Gulp's New Penny 4" and 3" and
Gulp's Pearl White 3". We started catching fish at 9:50 a.m. We caught 39
trout with 9 keepers and 17 sand sharks from 18" to 24". We also caught 3
black sea bass, 2 sail catfish, 3 hard head catfish and 3 grunts, all on 4
packs of Gulps. We straight line fished jigging off the bottom with no
floats. We quit fishing at 2:45 p.m. and the fish were still biting. Total
fish landed - 67." Thanks, Mark Moneyhan
Great report and Great Fun too I imagine!
Hey Pat, Took Jason and Lisa Adams of Warner Robins, Ga out Saturday, August
6th. 93 degree + water temps. No wind. Caught 13 trout, including Jason's
big 26-1/2" 4.8 lb gator. Sunday, couldn't get a bite. Oh, everything on
Saturday was caught on live pinfish in 6 feet of water, of course. Thanks,
Mike Johnson (Macon, Ga).
Here are a couple of scalloping reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
8/4-5 John Morris of Ga. had a limit of scallops fro his boat for two days
from 5-6 " of water on lo tide.
8/5 Lovie Marino of Jacksonville, Florida had a limit of scallops for his
crew in 8 feet of water.
Keaton Beach Fishing Report August 5 - 6 2011
Trout were a bit sluggish, until the top of the
tide, for Jason and Kim Johnson of Tallahassee, who fished with me Saturday
and landed 9 trout and a black sea bass despite a 105 degree heat index and
no breeze whatsoever, for over three hours! We fished live pigfish and
pinfish under Cajun Thunders to land our fish from 5.5 to 6.5 feet of water.
The best bite was from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. I caught two trout on
Precision Tackle's Cajun Flash spinnerbaits with a copper blade and an
Assassin "cantaloupe" colored sea shad tail.
The reds have been tough to find despite the
high tides of this past weekend. Reports of some out-sized ( over the slot)
reds being seen and caught earlier in the week came from a few sources; but
I have yet to run into this school/schools of fish. Trout will continue to
like the last two hours of the incoming tide for their best feed period.
here are some scallop reports from Keaton Beach
Marina:
Jay Crosby of Withlacoochee, Ga. had a limit for those on his boat from
8 feet of water. 7/30
Raymond Nadenik of Crescent City Florida had a
limit of scallops on his boat 6 -8 ft. 7/30
Kamp and Cooper families from Green Cove Springs, Florida had their
limit of scallops 8 ft. 7/31
Keaton Beach Fishing Report July 29-30
Trout fishing slowed ,with the slimmer tides
last weekend, yet should pick up this week as we approach the new moon on
Saturday night.
I had eleven trout, a Spanish and three Black
Sea bass for Zack Cook, Nathan Alexander and Makensie Bruce of Woodstock,
Ga. Wednesday, July 21. We caught our fish on Live pinfish & pigfish under
Cajun Thunders from 5.5 - 6.5 feet of water.
"Hey Pat, went on a trout/scallop trip
sat. Had my son Michael and grandson, Bailey on board the Hammer knocker
III. We had seven trout and one Spanish by 12:00. Largest trout was 24 in.
Had a boat limit of scallops in 45 minutes in seven foot of water."
Thanks Mike King( Thomasville, Ga.)
The Cadle family of Live Oak, Florida, reported to the marina, they went
offshore on 7/24 and brought back pinkmouths, black sea bass,& a flounder
while using cut bait and pinfish for bait.
Here are some scallop reports from Keaton Beach
Marina:
7/21 Devogt family of Valdosta, Ga. had their
limit of scallops Thursday and Sunday
7/21 Shane Kelly family of Ft. Myers had a limit
of scallops from 6 feet of water
7/22 Koller and Faloon families of Orlando had
their limits from 5 - 6 feet of water
7/22 John Cone family of Lake City had 4.5
gallons of scallops and a ton of fun from 4 feet of water.
7/23 Heidi Hess family of Tampa had a blast
scalloping in 5 feet of water
Remember to FLY YOUR DIVE FLAGS! It's the LAW!
Keaton Beach Fishing report July 22-23
Boy, we have caught great fish with some great
folks all week.
Sunday, I had Roy Pate and Ann Chambers of
Moultrie, Ga out and we had a great trip with eight trout, three black sea
bass and two reds. Roy had a 27" red and Ann caught her first-ever redfish!
Tuesday, I took Nathan Alexander, Makensie Bruce and Zach Cook, all of
Woodstock, Ga and we caught nine trout, a red, three blues, four black
Sea Bass, and two mackerel. Makensie caught her first-ever speckled
trout, a whopping 24", 4.2 pound beauty! We had four trout over 20" as
well. We fished live pogies, pigfish and pinfish under Cajuns in 4.5 -
6.5 feet of water to land this menagerie of fish.
The following folks ( as well as quite a few more, whom I don't have
names) had limits of scallops for three days straight while staying at
Keaton Beach Marina:
The Onsgard family & the Keen family from west Florida, and the Johnson
family from Central Florida.
Scallops continue to stay deep with most folks getting them from 6-10
feet of water.
Remember to Fly your Dive Flags ...It' the LAW!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report July 15th
You gotta catch the weather right and then you
can get some trout....Thunderstorms have kept most off the water and then
afterwards, the lack of any breeze whatsoever has taken the bite away the
rest of the time. Fish with live pinfish under Cajun Thunders in 5 - 7 feet
of water for best results.
We had some w-i-n-d for just under an hour
Monday and caught a nice 19" and 23" trout for our trouble Monday, then
struggled with no breeze for the remainder of the day. We caught our trout
on live pinfish under Cajun in 5.5 feet of water.
Here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
7/8 Bob and Laney Stetson & Michael Logan of
Lakeland, Florida had 12 trout after picking up their limit of scallops in 6
-7 feet of water
7/8 Paul and Macie Gunn of Tampa, Fl. had their
limit of scallops from 7.5 - 8.5 feet of water
7/10 The Leander Family of Live Oak had their
limit of scallops from 5 - 6 feet of water
7/10 Dennis and Trey Wright with Mark Hawke and
Will Bush of Albany, Ga. had 20 trout and one 21" red while using live
pinfish under Cajun Thunders
in 5 feet of water from 7:00 a.m. til 9:30 a.m.
Scallop Report: As of yet, the scallops remain
out deep with most folks, who are limiting out, diving down in 5 -10 feet of
water to the "south". Perhaps the warmer-than-usual water temperatures have
kept the scallops well offshore of their regular hangouts?
Remember: If you do go, Fly YOUR Dive Flags!
It's the LAW!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report July 8 -9 2011
Trout have been a bit tough with the hot Hot HOT
water temps of late, what with no afternoon rains to cool things off a bit.
I haven't seen a redfish in six trips? But the mullet are two miles off the
hill jumping in 6 - 7 feet of water! I guess also looking for some relief
from the heat? Live pinfish fished in 5 - 6.5 feet of water, under Cajun
Thunders, continue to catch the most trout for my charters. Some folks are
bouncing Assassin plastic in Electric Chicken, Cantaloupe, and Sand Trout
patterns in 6 - 8 feet of water and landing some good trout to 24".
I took Billy Pillow with me on Thursday, June
30th to scout the trout while I caught bait and he landed 6 keepers to 20"
in under an hour and a half on live pinfish under Cajuns.
Friday, I had eight nice trout, six blues and a
black sea bass for Sam Tawfik of Irmo, South Carolina who was treating his
wife's 88 year old Aunt Jessie to a day of fishing. She had a blast and we
caught some fine ones!
Saturday, we had nine trout despite shortening
our day to four-and-a-half hours, as one of my clients got a little too hot?
(He forgot his hat) Folks you have to take this heat seriously and wear a
hat and drink one bottle of water-per-hour to stay hydrated!
Here are some scallop reports from Keaton Beach
Marina:
The Russ Knight boat from Perry, Fl. had their
limit Sunday 7/3
Jay Ricketson's boat of Perry Fl. had their
limit as well. 7/3
Jimmy Frostick boat, also of Perry, had their
boat's limit as well. 7/3
The Sean Tobin family from Winter Park, Florida
had their limit on Sunday and Monday.
Hey, I didn't hear of any injuries or fatalities
and I think that is outstanding
considering how many folks were down at the
water this past July Fourth Weekend!
Congratulations...and Stay Careful out there..
....and Remember to Fly your DIVE FLAGS! It's
the LAW!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report July Fourth Weekend!
Well, the thunderstorms not withstanding, folks still managed to fish and
scallop throughout last weekend and on through the week. Live pinfish fished
under Cajuns are still catching my charters trout while the fish seemed to
have moved on out to 6 - 6.5 feet of water. Some Spanish and black sea bass
are mixed in with the trout while blues, sharks and catfish keep you on your
toes as well.
I took Jared Singletary from Thomasville, Ga.
out with a party of three, Monday and we brought back 12 trout, a five pound
Spanish, and a couple of black sea bass. Bo Taylor jumped a 90 -100 lb
Tarpon and had him on for almost two hours. The 10 lb. test line finally
parted, but Bo said he got the best of the old tarpon anyway!
Scallop Report: John and Leigh Turner had their
daughter, Lindsey, and her husband Jody Campbell, all of Auburn, Ga. out for
scallops over the weekend and they got their limit both days. Jody reported
they took three hours to find two gallons; then found a good bunch of them
and finished their limit, 6 more gallons, in under an hour, Saturday. Then
Sunday this group had their 8 gallons in just over an hour. "South" is all I
know of as to where?
Seems "South" was the key as no one reported
having found many scallops around Keaton and Dekle Beach proper. I saw a
dozen boats around Dekle, Sunday...but I can't say if they were having any
success? Most of the folks who had a limit were scalloping below Grassy
Isle, like John and Jackie Moody of Ocala, who got their limit, for three
days, from Sat.- Mon. "down south"
July Fourth Weekend will be a circus here at Keaton, BUT don't think you
have to be a clown...there will be enough of them already!
Slow Down and don't be in such a hurry with so
many folks ( and children) in the water. Give plenty of distance to pass by
snorkelers
and stop 100 yds. before you think you need to.
Boats don't have brakes!
And Remember!
FLY YOUR DIVE FLAGS! It's the LAW!
Be Careful and Watch out for those
Thunderstorms!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report June 24 - 25
Trout were easier last week, what with the tide
between the moons this week and with very little tide flow. Trout are
somewhat lethargic as water temps continue to go up and the west winds pin
the HOT dark water against the hill to the North. I saw mullet jumping 2
miles offshore, Tuesday. Guess they are looking for some relief from the
heat as well? Live pinfish and pigfish continue to catch trout rigged under
Cajuns and fished in 5 - 7 feet of water. A bunch of tiny, baby sharks
including 10' - 12" blacktips are making live bait a chore of late...as are
Sailcats! Not many reds being caught, at least not reported anyway?
We had 12 nice trout Saturday, for Billy and Amy
Pearson of Valdosta, Ga with a 4.6 lb trout 24.5 " long for Billy. We fished
live pins and pigs in 4.5 - 6.5 feet of water. Man it was hot as we had
zero breeze for the first three hours!
here are some reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
6/18 Kellie Young of Perry, Fl. and 2 trout(
25" and 18") using live pinfish under a Cajun Thunder in 12 ft. of water.
6/19 Champ and Tammy Klein of Ormond Beach,
Florida had 6 trout using Gulp Pearl in 6.5 feet of water.
6/19-20 Mike Johnson and Pamela Skimmer from
Macon, Ga. had their limit of ten trout each day using live pinfish and
shiner tails under Thunders in 5 feet of water .
6/19-20 Enoch and Clyde Johns of Wray, Ga. had
their limit of ten trout, both days, in 4.5 - 6.5 feet of water using live
pinfish under Cajun Thunders
Here are the results from Rhoda Moehring,
organizer of the Nauti-Girls tourney, held last week in Steinhatchee:
"Well the Ladies took off again on Sat. and fished the day away. Here are
the winners: Redfish: 1st. Manny Altman 6.85#. 2nd, Rebecca Durden 6.35#
and 3rd Debbie Evans 6.30# Madonna Otto won most spots on redfish with 4
spots. Trout: 1st. Place Manny Altman 5.95#, Jennifer Walko 3.85 # and
3rd. place Elaine Huss 3.50 # plus boat bonus. Redfish boat bonus was
Debbie Evans. Largest Ladyfish Sherry Riddle 2.30#."
Keaton Beach Fishing Report June 17-18, 2011
Trout were cooperating nicely 'til Monday and
the front? or whatever that was, came through, shut them off for us, then,
Tuesday things cranked right back up. Trout are eating live pinfish rigged
32" under the larger 2.5" oval Cajun Thunder Floats fished in 4.5 - 6 feet
of water. Blues, flounder, black sea bass and an occasional Tarpon will also
take your live fish offerings in Keaton Beach waters. The floating grass is
making it very difficult to throw any artificials for trout. Thunder-Spins
and Cajun Flash spinnerbait continue to take keeper reds in 2-3.5 feet of
water right on top of the hi tide. The copper bladed spinnerbaits have taken
more fish as of late.
Saturday, I took Sonny Lockhart of Warner
Robins, Ga. out with his son and daughter-in law and we caught 11 trout,
with three over 20" long and one black sea bass. We fished live pinfish
under Cajuns. We were needing more breeze most of the day.
I had 15 trout and one nice 24" red for Tya and
Shane Camp of Hahira, Ga. on Sunday, while using live pinfish under Cajuns
in 4 - 6 feet of water. Tya caught the red on a Copper-bladed Thunder-Spin
spinnerbait with a Cantaloupe-colored Assassin Sea Shad. We had three trout
over 21" long as well.
I then followed that trip with only three
measly trout for six hours fishing on Monday. The Northwest w-i-n-d came up
and sat on us around 12-15 knots and everything just shut down.
But, then Tuesday, we used live pinfish under
Cajun Thunders, again, to land 12 trout, (three over 20") an 18" flounder,
three Black Sea Bass and one Blue for Bill and Melinda Blanton of
Tallahassee, Florida. Bill jumped a 90 -100 pound tarpon for three
spectacular jumps and about a 5 second show! We caught our trout in 4-5 -
5.5 feet of water.
Here are two reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
6/8 Jimmy Douglas, Sonny Rigdon and Merrin
Bennett of Homerville, Ga. had 15 trout with three over 20" from 4.5 - 5.5
feet of water using live pinfish under Cajun Thunders.
6-11,12 Two father and son teams, George and
Parker Davis with Rob and Zachary Jamison, all of Woodstock, Ga. had 16
trout and 24 black sea bass while bouncing Gulp in 7 feet of water on
Saturday and Sunday.
that's all!
Hey! Don't Forget the second annual Nauti-Girls Ladies Fishing
Tournament is THIS Saturday, June 18, 7:00 to 4:30
$30.00 entry fee. Weigh-in is at the Estuary in Steinhatchee.
Prizes include, Top three Trout : $350, $250, $150 as well as identical
prize money for the top three reds.
Hey the Redfish with the MOST SPOTS wins $200 !
$100 BONUS for all prizes won on boats with Ladies ONLY on board
Captains Meeting for the Ladies is at the Estuary Dock, Friday, June
17, from 6:30 -9:30 p.m. admission with Tournament ticket only.
or call Sea Hag marina at 352-498-3008 or River Haven Marina at 352-498-0709
for tickets and information!
Keaton Beach Fishing Report June 10-11 2011
Trout fishing has been Speck-Tackle-Lure !
Wow! We had 20 trout weighing 44.8 Pounds,
Saturday for J.P. Johnson, Wade Miller and Seth Dozier of Tifton, Ga. Their
first trip out with me! J.P landed his largest trout ever, a 4.4 pound gator
25" long and Seth caught his largest ever, a 26" , 5.2 pound Sow Trout !
Both these fish ate Live Pigfish under Cajuns in 4.5 - 5.5. feet of water
right on top of the hi tide!
Monday, I took David Ellis, his 12 year old
grandson, David Ellis with his Uncle Don Ellis of Gainesville, Fla. out and
we caught 16 trout with four over 20" long The rain shortened our trip, but
we had a great box of trout! We caught them all on live pinfish under Cajuns
in 4 - 5.5 feet of water.
Tuesday, I had Keith Humphrey and Tony Giddens
of Lakeland, Georgia out and they also caught their largest-ever trout with
a 23" trout for Keith and a 22.5" fish for Tony. We had 15 trout with three
over 20" and a nice 24" redfish (Tony's first) caught on a Thunder-Spin
spinnerbait, with a cantaloupe Assassin Sea shad tail in 3 feet of water. I
actually caught one 18" trout bouncing the same color, cantaloupe, while
Keith and Tony caught the balance of our trout on live pinfish and pigfish
rigged under Cajuns in 5.5 - 6.5 ft. of water.
Hey Pat , went offshore, Friday in 65 to 75 ft. On the Hammerknocker II .
Had a boat limit of snapper,(three on board) all were 22 to 30 in. Four red
grouper to 24 in. Was finished fishing by 12:00. Thanks, Mike King (
Thomasville, Ga.)
Hey Pat, While fishing up there this weekend, catching our limit
(trout)Saturday, we managed to hook onto a tarpon, about 5 foot. Fought him
for 45 minutes or more on 10 lb. line , not sure who was wearing out more ,
but he managed to break the line. Dion Knight
These reports from Keaton Beach Marina:
6/4 John Keglor of Valdosta, Ga. had 2 trout a
26" and a 27.5 " fish ( wonder which one did he release?) using an
Assassin Candy Corn sea shad in 7 feet of water.
6/4 Andrew Castardi of Marietta, Ga. had his
five trout using "mullet tail and shrimp his largest trout was 25"
6/5,6 Mike Johnson, Robert Pic and Jeff Johnson
of Macon, Ga. had 30 trout for two days of fishing using live pinfish under
Cajun Thunders from 4.5 - 5 feet of water.
Hey! Don't Forget the second annual Nauti-Girls Ladies Fishing
Tournament is Saturday, June 18, 7:00 to 4:30
$30.00 entry fee. Weigh-in is at the Estuary in Steinhatchee.
Prizes include, Top three Trout : $350, $250, $150 as well as identical
prize money for the top three reds.
Hey the Redfish with the MOST SPOTS wins $200 !
$100 BONUS for all prizes won on boats with Ladies ONLY on board
Captains Meeting for the Ladies is at the Estuary Dock, Friday, June
17, from 6:30 -9:30 p.m. admission with Tournament ticket only.
or call Sea Hag marina at 352-498-3008 or River Haven Marina at 352-498-0709
for tickets and information!
Keaton Beach Fishing
Report.... June 3-4
Well, the trout fishing couldn't get much better
as Ed Thomas, of TGIF charters and I , on board One More Cast, had a split
charter of five guys from Opp, Alabama, we shall just call them " Jackson
party" over the Memorial Day Weekend.
We fished the Jackson party, both Saturday and
Sunday and had limits of trout for the guys, each day, on both boats. Ed had
one nice red on Saturday, yet neither of us found a red Sunday. I imagine
the reds are back up in the creeks as we have had no rain, in so long, they
could probably prosper way back up the creeks?
Anyway, Ed had his 3 over 20" each day and I had
4 over twenty inches long, each day, with the trout limits. We had 20 trout
weighing in at 42.8 pounds for our heaviest catch on my boat for Sunday.
Ed's boat had a 26" trout on Saturday! All these trout were caught on live
pinfish under Cajun Thunders from 4 - 6.5 feet of water. We had three black
sea bass, on Saturday and two on Sunday; while Ed had a 5 pound Spanish on
Sunday. It doesn't get much better than that!
Great fishing, with some great guys from Opp,
Alabama!
Here are a couple of reports from Keaton Beach
Marina;
5/29 (four day report)
Nelbin and Ana Cruz of Lilburn, Ga. had their
limit of 40 trout 10 each day, using New Penny Gulp in 5 -6 feet of water.
5/21-22-23 Jonathan, Wilford and Lee Sisson of
Gainesville, Ga. had 10, 15 and 15 trout respectively for the three days
they fished while using White Gulp , X-Raps and Live pinfish under Cajun
Thunders in 6 feet of water.
Red Snapper Season will have started Wednesday,
June 1st, and that will be the Rage... I'm sure.. but I'll be catching up
trout and reds just the same!