Submitted by Wade (ip 66.82.9.37)

Date Fished: 6/27/2003
Water Temperature: 80+
Water Clarity: 0

The family and I took a little week long vacation (starting two Friday's ago) to the Treasure Coast. They get the beach and the pool, I get Stick Marsh/Farm 13 and Garcia!

I can sum up the first few days; rain, rain, and more rain. Only a few fish, flipping and pitching into the S and SW weed beds in the Farm. I watched a few of the guides moving around and listened to the chatter, they were on the fish and I wasn't. I stopped into Middleton's Stick Marsh Bait and Tackle for a few different Senko's, crickets for the daughter and a map with GPS coordinates. Took the family fishing for panfish and whammo, out came a couple of 1+ pound blue gills. That was a good thing. Talked with George and Scott of Imagination Bassin' for a bit and fished a little more. Then came Wednesday.

The day started off with everything right and finished even better. Launched with the plan to go to the spillway check for fish. I got to the spillway behind two other boats, a couple of fella's looking for panfish and John Peace of Trophy South Guide Service. John and I had a great time chatting and catching fish after fish on carolina rigged Senko's. Yes kind reader, the fish where on and we were there! An hour or so later Hugh Crumpler came in with a boat load of customers and they caught fish. A little while later Randy Camps of Bass Buster Guide service pulled up with Andy as his customer. They got on the fish. Needless to say we were in the right place at the right time. After being invited by Randy to participate (donate) in a tournment on Wednesday night on Garcia I left around 1 p.m.. The tournment went well for never seeing the water before. My family came along to enjoy the sights and sounds of Garcia. I caught two keeper's and one dink, didn't place but for the first time on Garcia and running through the weeds, not bad. Thanks to Randy Camps for inviting me to the tournment, lots of fun.

Thursday went well, the family and I went back to the spillway, George and Scott were there rattle trapping fish after fish. The carolina rig was working still, quite a bit slower but still worked. My wife caught around 5 bass, the daughter caught a blugill and 7 or so needle fish, I got around 20 bass with rattletraps and carolina rigged Senko's. That was a great end to a fun trip.

Important notes to people going to Stick Marsh/Farm 13. Bring Sunscreen and lots to drink. Buy lots and lots of Cinko's at Middleton's. These fish eat up Senko's, literally!. Take time to learn the channels and remember underneath the Stick Marsh and Farm 13 is a nothing but stick up's! I found one the last day, at speed, in a place that I had run across every other day I was there. No damage but a reality check.

Thanks to all the people on the water that chatted about how to fish Stick Marsh/Farm 13. Every bit of advice helped! See ya'all next time!

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