Fishing report - Mar 11, 2006

March 11, 2006 9:30am - 1:00pm
Tide: Low at 6:15PM
Water Temp: 56 degrees
Air Temp: 70 degrees
Moon: Waxing Gibbous 93% full
Location: Rich Inlet area
Wind: Calm
Sky: Sunny

What a beautiful day! I had a four hour "window" to go fishing and chose to go on the falling tide with a solunar "major bite" time of 10:10 a few hours before the low tide. I also wanted to do a little exploring around the inlets, esp. Rich Inlet as I hadn't been down that way in while. My friend Jeff M. went with me, our first time fishing together.

We fished the inlet itself, right up on the north shoals. There was a nice slough there that we could get the boat right up in between the sand bars. Looked to be a fishy place. We tried for almost an hour. Another boat with 6 people pulled up and fished near us. None of us caught a thing. We then worked our way back through Green Channel working the creeks as we went. Then we tried the figure 8 bridge area, Finally ended up in the creek near here and caught some puppy drum! Here's a picture of Jeff with his first ever Puppy Drum catch!