Brad King

Fished East Bay and Blackwater yesterday. My first time ever fishing the area. We fished Oyster bars and reefs in both shallow and deep locations. Fished some channel structure, marsh drains and mud flats. Fished really hard for several hours to only have a few small trout to show far it. The lack of bait fish and mullet really suprised me. We saw maybe two mulet all day, and they were near the launch.

Once we got to the areas we were wanting to focus on it was like a desert. No bait, no mullet, no movement....nothing. All in all a pretty boring day, but there is still alot af area to fish from blackwater back around to Escambia River before the winteris over.

*Highlight of the Day* We saw two large Bald Eagles in the top of an old dead tree. Very beautiful and majestic sight.

Sorry no pictures, just wasn't anythig worth a picture....

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Captain WhupAss

Sorry you guys had a bum day. I've had a few of those lately. If the eagles you saw in the old dead tree is close to the mouth of the East River, I made the same identification, except for my brother-in-law corrected me and told me they are Osprey. I still am not sure which. Better luck next trip...

svengali76

I was out there this weekend too near Robinson Pt. and defintely saw a large Bald Eagle in a dead pine tree. I used to live out there and saw them all the time.

Jason

Bay Pirate

What was the water temp Brad, did you take note of the early temp and mid-day temp difference?

BP

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Brad King

Yeah BP I had an eye on it all day. Wasn't a real big swing. I didn't get on the water till around 9. My chartplotter was reading a 57 degree surface temp. Seemed alittle low to me. That's when I moved out to deeper water looking.

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dailysaw

sucks it was such a bum day. sometime it goes that way. any time on the water is good to me. thanks for the report.

Bay Pirate

at 57 Deg....you might as well throw your gulp in the water, twitch once, drink a 1/2beer, then twich again, have a 1/2 sandwich, twich again and repeat.<P align=center>better yet, stay at home and do the same thing!<P align=center><P align=center>wink

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jwebster98

I was out at Blackwater yesterday, also. It was kinda spooky with not much bait/mullet/fish movement. Fishedtwo and halfhours before dusk and only managed 2 shorties. Broadmouth to Big Catfish. Very slow and cold.

Brant Peacher

You have to be North of the I-10 bridge when the water gets down below 56-57 deg.The bay area of Blackwater will be like you said a desert!All the bait bunches up in the deep holes north of the bridge and the trout hang out there pretty much all winter. We had a really good day yesterday north of the bridge.No monster fish but a bunch of 15-19inchers. They werevery aggressive.Didnt matter what you threw as far as lures go yesterday. Even got a few on topwater! If you guys want a map of some fo the deep trout holes north of the bridgethen pm me.

dbyrd2100

Thanks for the good info. I went late in the day Saturday and caught some very nice trout and reds. Water temp about 56-57 Went again earlier in the day Sunday. Water temp 53-55. Didn't see a thing. Amazing that a few degrees makes such a difference.