Met my friend Mark from Ocala at Walter B's at 7am. There were already 3 boats launching when we got to the creek launch. I knew it would get breezy late morning and mid-day, but the water level and swells would at least stay reasonable. It seemed like all of Perry decided to fish that area. We counted at least 8 airboats, 2 other kayakers, and at least 20 boats all in the area. But no one seemed to be catching a lot of fish.
We had decent luck trolling and managed to catch some nice trout. At one point I decided to just anchor and throw downwind and hooked a nice trout on the first cast. Mark anchored about 30 feet away to do the same. Then he proceeded to show my up....lol! On almost every cast he was hooking up with a fish!
The highlight of the day was when Mark landed a 24 inch trout. My biggest trout was 22 inches. We caught quite a few right at 20 inches or slightly over. Didn't take a lot of pictures, but here are a few. Mark ended up with 2 reds and 27 trout. I ended up with 1 red and 24 trout. Getting out at the crowded ramp most of the folks we talked to were lucky to catch a couple of trout (live and artificial baits). I guess we had the right presentations.
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Re: Yates Creek - 2-24-2018
Great report and nice pictures. Those are some beautiful fish! Thanks Steve
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Re: Yates Creek - 2-24-2018
Great report as usual Steve.
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Re: Yates Creek - 2-24-2018
Nice trout
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Motivation right there.
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