Piney-Z Pre Spring Spawn Bass

Took a ride over to Piney-Z, lugged the Gheenoe by hand down to the launch. Headed out as the sun was coming up. Worked topwater baits, a few casts in boated a nice 4.5lb bass. Caught a few more on top water until the sun came up when we switched to senko style paddle tail worms rigged weedless. Ended up catching around 15 bass averaging around 3lbs each. Great day on the water.

April Fools in the Bayou

Took a trip out to take advantage of the incoming tide all day, was expecting to have 10-15mph winds and a chance of thunder storms but the weather man was apparently pulling an April fool’s joke as it was less than 5mph winds all day. It was very foggy and misting in the morning when we launched but eventually turned into sunny blue bird skies. Started throwing top water and had a few blow ups and eventually hooked up to a little red. Continued fishing and caught some nice trout. We moved over to an oyster bar that was just covered by the tide, immediately saw tailing fish, Cast, hooked up to a nice 31” spotless Redfish. Snapped some pictures and it was safely released. Moved deeper into the bayou and caught a fair share of reds and trout. We then cruised home to the wonderful scenery of the Saint Marks Wildlife refuge and the beautiful spring weather. Until next time, tight lines

Gheenoe Dolphin encounter in St. Marks

  Went Out fishing a foggy Friday morning, could barley get around but encountered a dolphin who used us to help wrangler the mullet. Check it out:

Febuary Bass Fishing in Northwest Florida In the Gheenoe

Woke up today at 6:30am and headed to Piney-Z Lake with Alain of SoFlo Bass Fishing http://www.youtube.com/user/soflobassfishing. It is a small lake that was once part of the larger Lake Lafayette . It was dammed up during the late 1940's when the owners created a farm pond out of park of Lake Lafayette creating Piney-Z. It has been stocked by the Florida fish and wildlife conservation, who has created a diverse ecological system. The lake is a no internal combustion motor zone, so we took only the trolling motor topping the Gheenoe out at around 5mph. We ended up seeing large grass carp, large alligator gar, as well as catching large mouth bass.  We ended up catching most of the bass on Senko worms worked weedless. Here are the pictures from the day.