St Johns River TNT

Yesterday the club I have been a member of for the last four years had a TNT out of Palatka Fl.

The week leading up to this events weather had been AWSOME with mid 80's, Southern winds and high pressure.

I thought surely some of the big girls were moving into the miles of shallow spatterdock to do their thing.

That weather pattern soon changed as the Sunday event neared.

Sunday morning we found rain and storms approaching. 18 boats launched in the rain.

My partner and I ran into a very large creek and the "Heavy Sticks" came out with Rage bugs, Rage Craws attached.

We found a large stretch of spatterdock emergent vegetation and figured we would start here.

My partner snatched two males from inside the pads while I had not a bite.

After two hours had passed the rain had stopped and the wind began to BLOW!

We struggled to keep boat control on the outside of the pads so I figured I would just swing for the fence And picked up a 6" freestyle Magdraft.

After hours of throwing this heavy bait I had one blow up and missed the bait, a rather large 6' gator raced through the pads to eat it and one bass that I managed to get to the net 4.75 lbs.

Our day ended with a rough and fast ride to the scales to find out the winning boat had 18lbs and big fish of the event was 8.9 lbs.

I was supposed to go to Mexico Lake El-Salto @ the beginning of March, but now do to the civil unrest these plans must be canx, And our local lakes are very low so I will stay after the big fish on the St. Johns river.