Fished lake Talquin with my son this weekend and tore the big Crappie up! The fish were in 6 to 8 feet or water and will move up to spawn with the full moon in march water temps were 65 to 70 degrees After the fish spawn they will move out to structure ledges and… The post Lake Talquin Fishing Report March 2 2022 appeared first on Lake Talquin Fis...

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Keaton Report March 26 27 Trout are in recovery as evidenced by my trips Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Started with catching bait Sunday in miserable weather and Gulf water temps at 58 –59 degrees. Monday Morning saw 59 again and it was slow at least for keepers and my charter from Indiana Father and daughter team managed 6 keeper trout with 20 pl...

joey phillips photo cutline: 2898 Joey Phillips of Columbus Ga. with a 23.5” trout caught June 15 Keaton report June 22 23 /19 Please don’t ask me about the scallops because I was fishing Saturday(opening day) and the folks I asked ( as they drove by in the canal) got some but much less than they hoped. I hope it was better’n that for the rest of...

Keaton Beach report 5/18 19/19 Trout continue to be cooperative at least for my One More Cast charters as we had a limit of trout for Cecil and Lynn Stalnaker of Ft. White Florida Friday while fishing live pinfish under Back Bay Thunders. Lynn bested a 24” trout late in the day from 3.5 feet of water. Mostly though we have been plying 5.5 – 6.5 ft...

Keaton Beach Report May 10 –11 – 19 Trout were jumping in the boat Friday last when we had 19 trout and 8 bsb from 4.5 – 5.5 ft. then Saturday we had 15 trout and 9 bsb for Steven Cook Daniel Cook and Matt Williams of Dallas Ga. We had a 24.5 inch trout which hit an Assassin Sea Shad in the Stinky Pink pattern. Most of the trout ate live pinfish u...

editors sorry this is so late but had a busy day in Havana a the MFC commission meeting where the commissioners decided to postpone any action on the rule changes and are prepared to split the Northwest region into two parts with Pensacola to either Cape San Blas or Apalachicola as one and from the split to crystal river or perhaps Anclote the oth...

Keaton Report April 12 –13 Well as predicted the fishing just got better and better as the water warmed up. Thursday last the water temp in the Gulf was 70 degrees in the morning when we went out. We caught limits each day with trout to 23” for Steven Cook of Dallus Ga. with Matt Williams and his son Steve from South Carolina. We brought back 19 S...

Keaton report April 5 – 6 2019 Up and down up and down so goes the yo-yo so goes the trout bite. Sunday Billy and I caught a limit of trout in under an hour. Monday my charter struggled against the w-i-n-d and rain to get 3 keeper trout in the boat.cold cold cold.’ Tuesday Morning still cold and the water temps had dropped to 63 degrees down from...

Keaton Report 3/22 23/19 What a difference a few days make? Well I fished Monday mostly to catch the first pinfish of the year for my trip Tuesday as I have been using plugs and plastic or shrimp in some cases. I caught about 75 then decided that I needed to go throw a plug a while.The water temperature of the Gulf had dropped ten degrees down to...

Keaton beach fishing report march 15 –16 Doesn’t get any better’n this folks! Doug Garwood and Joe Duncan of Dalton Ga. were down at Keaton for the entire week Wednesday to Wednesday and they caught their limit of trout each day with an redfish here and there for good measure. This pair caught their fish on the Walmart magnum lazer minnows ( Reneg...

Keaton Report March 8 9 2019 Trout were eating it up before this front and hampered a might with the turbid water after the w-i-n-d had Howled such as Monday we were taken back from limits each trip to 5 keeper trout and one nice 27” red for Pat Meyerin of Perry Fl. and her brother Joe of Jacksonville Fl. Pat got the big red ( her largest to date)...

Keaton Beach Report March 1 – 2 Trout fishing doesn’t get much better’n this! Certainly not in February! I had limits for my charters six out of seven days from Saturday to Saturday.( oh yeah I didn’t go Thursday last week) Friday we had two over 20” including a 24” 4+ pound trout in the creel for Sam Shaw of Homerville Ga. Saturday my crew of Cha...

Keaton Report Feb 22 Trout have recovered nicely over the last week as we had our limits Sunday Monday and Tuesday with larger fish showing up in the creel once the water temps returned to 66 degrees by late Tuesday afternoon up from 59 degrees early Sunday. We fished live shrimp under Back Bay Thunders each day throwing back 50 –70 shorts on the...

Keaton Report February 1 2 2019 Well it is February and wouldn’t you know it it is cold as February. last Saturday folks who went caught fish late in the last few hours of the day. The Griggs boys were down from Phenix City Alabama and caught their limits in less than an hour on Paul Brown originals in 2 ft. of water. Where?...... well I guess you...

Keaton Report December 21 –22 Short and sweet! Trout are biting Water temps are 60 – 62 degrees this past weekend and first of the week. Trout are responding to lipped hard jerkbaits suspending baits Candy Corn Sea Shads by Assassin and a few on shrimp under Cajuns. The forecast of ever-warming air temperatures; mid 70’s through Christmas and beyo...

Keaton Report December 8 –9 2018 55 degrees is tough to fish when it is the first time they have been that cold since last winter. 57 was the turning point or should I say “turn on” point last Friday when I had the McCulloughs from Tennessee out and we fished 6 hours for three fish then in less than an hour we put 10 in the boat and threw back two...

photo cutline; blake bass 2855 Blake Bass( 5 Y.O.) with his first – ever speckled trout 5/28/19 Keaton Report May 31 June 1 2019 Trout fishing couldn’t get any better than last week as I had limits on all my charters despite Gulf water temps from 86 in the a.m to 88.5 degrees in the afternoons. Saturday was the exceptional day with a limit of 20 t...

Keaton Report June 7-8 2019 It is with Great sadness that I write a report tonight as I just now found out today that Travis Beach past owner operator of Keaton Beach marina from 1993 – 2014(?) passed away on May 20 2019. I had seen Travis in his golf in the ramp parking lot the week before; then decided to take him some trout fillets after a solo...

Keaton Beach Report April 26 –27 2019 Trout were better the first of the week when hi tides were mid-day and as the tide moved up into the afternoon the bite moved with it. Sunday I limited out while scouting from 1:08 to 2:02 catching a 19” 2- 18” and 2 - 17” trout and a 15 inch flounder. By Tuesday that bite had moved to 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. We mana...