Stick Marsh & Farm 13
Capt. George Welcome
April 24, 2005
Stick Marsh-Farm 13 - Freshwater Fishing Report
Probably the most often heard questions from those
visiting the Marsh whether they live in Florida or elsewhere, is whether the
alligator population is good sized and whether we have to worry about them.
The answers are; the population is quite large and the alligator is very much
afraid of man. Getting pictures of one that is good is quite difficult without
have a telephoto lens but the one below Don Willis was able to capture. The
gator was laying on that small patch of mud and Don came up from behind her
surprising her before she could flee.
Don was able to snap several good pictures before she
made a run.
4/21/2005 I met returning client
Glen Miles of San Antonio, TX at the ramp at 6:30am. We headed to the south
end of the Farm with hopes of starting the day with a Chug Bug bite. While
giving Glen a demonstration on how to work the Chug Bug a bass hammered the
bait and kept going. We worked are way toward the shore line forever hopeful
another bass would hit. After what seemed like a 1000 casts I decided it was
time to try Senkos. We worked are way around the dense wood and still could
not get a bass to bite. I decided we need to start working our way off shore
and try to find where the bass had moved to. Throwing rattle traps it did not
take us long to locate the bass well offshore.
The rest of the day we never left the area and caught a total of 44 bass
before calling it a day at 2:15pm.
4/22/2005 I meet Tommy Wilks and
Mike Avery at 6:00am and we headed to the ramp. I told Tommy and Mike about
the fishing we had the day before and they were very excited. We headed to the
south end of the Farm and starting working rattle traps. It did not take them
long to get the hang of things and the bass starting making there way to the
boat immediately.
I lost count of how many bass were caught but I know it
was at least 50.
The quality of bass that we caught was great with
countless bass between 4 and 6 pounds and the biggest of the day weighing 7.75
pounds. The bite was better in the morning, but by continuing to stay in the
same area and working the rattle traps non stop we managed to catch fish all
day. There is no big trick to working the rattle trap right know just throw it
out and burn it back.
Scott
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