St. Marks Fishing Reports (May 2026)

Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 1 week ago

The redfish bite is very good, especially at higher tide stages. The baits of choice have been soft plastics on an eighth or sixteenth-ounce jig head. Look for schools of bait and start fishing there. The trout bite has been good as well—it’s a bit of a hunt-and-peck approach. The...

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 1 week ago

The redfish bite is very good, especially at higher tide stages. The baits of choice have been soft plastics on an eighth or sixteenth-ounce jig head. Look for schools of bait and start fishing there.

The trout bite has been good as well—it’s a bit of a hunt-and-peck approach. The same soft plastics are working, with colors like Golden Glow, Watermelon Red Glitter, and Kitchen Sink. Use eighth- to quarter-ounce jig heads.

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 4 weeks ago

Fishing report for the weekend of Easter. We are catching a lot of red fish.Most of them overslot, there are some keepers mixed in.We are also catching a lot of speckled sea trout. Eight ounce red gold or pink jigheads with avocado red glitter watermelon, red glitter, golden glow or...

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 4 weeks ago

Fishing report for the weekend of Easter. We are catching a lot of red fish.Most of them overslot, there are some keepers mixed in.We are also catching a lot of speckled sea trout.
Eight ounce red gold or pink jigheads with avocado red glitter watermelon, red glitter, golden glow or kitchen sink colors have been the best.
Shorelines with jumping, mullet and glass meadows are the places to work any place. There's a hole urgency or a little bit of structure.You want it to work it double time.
As always, if you wanna see firsthand give us a call and and book and trip and we'll show you

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 1 month ago

The beautiful weather this time here is great for getting offshore. Closer to shore, the seeps had bite is on 🔥. The minimum amount of weight to get to the bottom with a number 1 or 1/0 hook and live shrimp, sand fleas or fiddlers. Remember less is more smaller...

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 1 month ago

The beautiful weather this time here is great for getting offshore.
Closer to shore, the seeps had bite is on 🔥.
The minimum amount of weight to get to the bottom with a number 1 or 1/0 hook and live shrimp, sand fleas or fiddlers.
Remember less is more smaller shrimp and fiddler's work just as good.If not even better than the big select shrimp.
Offshore, the fish are starting to feed good.The red grouper bite has been very good in forty to sixty feet of water.
To throw in a good time, we're catching a handful of big gags and red snapper.
Live bates.Work really good, but so do frozen sardines and thread.Fin herring.
And while you're out there, small pieces of squid will fill your cooler with grunts lane.Snapper and other tasty bottomfish.
If you want to experience this firsthand give us a call.We have a few dates left around the easter.But we're filling up quick

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 1 month ago

This time of the year, the fish are transitioning from creeks to the flats. Best thing to catch them is find mullet or bait. If you find comorants diving there is most likely bait there.Try matching the hatch shrimp.Not necessarily big, small, pinfish, or cut baits We're catching red fish...

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 1 month ago

This time of the year, the fish are transitioning from creeks to the flats.
Best thing to catch them is find mullet or bait.
If you find comorants diving there is most likely bait there.Try matching the hatch shrimp.Not necessarily big, small, pinfish, or cut baits
We're catching red fish trout flounder and sheepshead

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 2 months ago

Spring is coming soon, and love is in the air. Or the water. These sheep's heads are moving out to the oyster bars. And then to fifteen to thirty feet of water. Best beats are fiddler, crabs, small shrimp sand flees and brined claws. I prefer to use a fish...

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 2 months ago

Spring is coming soon, and love is in the air. Or the water. These sheep's heads are moving out to the oyster bars. And then to fifteen to thirty feet of water.
Best beats are fiddler, crabs, small shrimp sand flees and brined claws.
I prefer to use a fish finder rig with number 1 or 1/0 hooks and the bare minimum wait to hold it down.
If you see a bunch of fish come to the surface, the bite should be shortly after.
Also our shrouders are starting to move out to the mouths of the creeks and on to the shallow flats.
Soft plastics on appropriately weighted jig heads work. The best, but a shrimp-tipped jig head will catch them, and you'll also get flounder and black drum...
If you'd like to see this firsthand book a trip.

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 3 months ago

With the cold cold temps. We're using live shrimp on on a jig head or a carolina rigg crawling them across the bottom, painfully slow. Also, soft plastics on jigheads are catching large over slot trout and the occasional red fish

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 3 months ago

With the cold cold temps. We're using live shrimp on on a jig head or a carolina rigg crawling them across the bottom, painfully slow.
Also, soft plastics on jigheads are catching large over slot trout and the occasional red fish

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 4 months ago

When the weather is warm, the trout and redfish are on the bars.Just outside of the mouth of the river, or in the mouths of deep creeks. My preferred method is shrimp on a jighead. We're soft plastics call jighead. We're also getting bonus sheepshead black drum and flounder. Offshore,...

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 4 months ago

When the weather is warm, the trout and redfish are on the bars.Just outside of the mouth of the river, or in the mouths of deep creeks. My preferred method is shrimp on a jighead.
We're soft plastics call jighead.
We're also getting bonus sheepshead black drum and flounder.
Offshore, we have one more weekend of red. Snapper, open until june.The bite has been decent.
Live sardines and thread, fin herring work best, but frozen will get the job done.

Merry christmas!

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 1 year ago

The big trout are leaving the creeks and fattening up for the spawn. Lots of things work pinfish, mud minnows, shrimp. But the go to is a eighth ounce jig head red or pink works best with a soft plastic in is gold and glow, golden brim or watermelon regulator....

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 1 year ago

The big trout are leaving the creeks and fattening up for the spawn. Lots of things work pinfish, mud minnows, shrimp. But the go to is a eighth ounce jig head red or pink works best with a soft plastic in is gold and glow, golden brim or watermelon regulator. Is work those in deeper troughs and creeks mouths.