Hit the east side of the toogoodoo creek opening where it empties into the waterway, with our backs to the 102 marker. There is a depression there just to the east of the creek opening. A small waterway (too small for anything but a john boat) goes on in parallel to the toogoodoo.
We arrived on a strong flood tide. We started hitting them hard almost immediately. We pulled a healthy amount of spots and croaker, and one oddball weakfish. I was bottom fishing on earthworms, using a fishfinder bottom rig on one pole and 2 poles with double hooks and a regular bottom sinker. The spots weren’t keepers, but the croaker were. We caught and released everything, so they are still there.
As soon as the tide crested, the action dropped immediately.
There is some bottom structure to the right (east) side of the depression. Dunno what it is, but I lost some tackle there, so cast that side with caution.
Conditions were not the best, strong winds were building up the waves pretty good. One of the first times I’ve been constantly under spray while at anchor. The anchor kept dragging so I had to reset a couple times. I hung my line one time in that structure and spun the boat, backing into the waves, so I could get my tackle loose. The surf was slapping the transom pretty hard to the point where the bilge wasn’t keeping up with what was going over the side, so I had to cut the line in the interest of safety.
I had some fun on the way out from my dock that morning. I wandered out of the creek channel, and run aground. Since it was flood tide, I waited for about 8-10 mins and I was back afloat. Just then a DNR boat came right up on me. I had tilted my OB down and was just pulling off as they came to pass. It looked for all the world like I was going to ‘run for it’. I moved on ahead about 20 feet and the DNR boat run aground about 20 feet past where I did. I pointed across to where the channel was and they didn’t seem at all interested in my help, so I continued on. The DNR rig got off a few mi