Winter and especially the month of Jan. can be one of our most challenging months of fishing here on the West coast of Florida. Our inshore trips have consisted of fishing deeper darker waters for sheepshead,redfish,black drum,and mangrove snapper with mackeral,pompano,ladyfish and jacks filling in the gaps. The offshore trips have been producing BIG gag…
Were into the beginning of February now wich is our transition month usually where our inshore species start looking forward to longer sunnier days and getting back out on the flats. Some big trout have been hanging out on the deeper flats adjacent to the drop offs and channels. Redfish schools have been in a…
nshore bite : The bait is starting to come into the bay and with that brings the snook out of the canals, rivers and backwater. Reds and snook are starting to hit live shiners on the flats, sheeps heads are still in good numbers on the rock piles along with spanish mackeral, mangrove snapper small…
Inshore fishing is heating up on the grass flats. The redfish have went on the chew biting alot better than they were in the previous weeks, with big slot sized fish in the 8lb range. The water temp is working its way up and thats giving them the appetite they need to gobble up our…
Inshore Report: The flats fishing has been on fire for me the last week or two with lots of snook, some slot fish too pretty to eat, and a few over with lots of just under 27″ fish. The trout have started their spawn and might i say we are catching the heck out of…
Inshore Report : The flats fishing is still strong with lots of snook, reds and trout. Snook season has closed now so were focusing on catch and release snook fishing. Redfish are good sized slot fish and most trout are in the 16 – 22″ range. Flounder are making thier way into some coolers along…
Inshore Report : Inshore fishing has been typical for the hot summer months of August, bait is a little small but easy to catch and the fishing on most days has been very good. The mangrove snapper in the 10-17″ range are everywhere and filling limits in the cooler, Redfish have been good most days…
Inshore fishing report: The mangrove snapper are still steady and eating well. Redfish schools are showing up all over Tampa Bay with a good bite both on high and low tides. Snook are starting to feed well again catching quite a few on every trip. Big tarpon have been chasing mullet in sarasota bay trout…
The bite is on snook are hitting well now and on artificials too. Now is a great time to throw artificials, snook are pounding them and redfish have been on as well. I am currently running specials on all artificial bait trips check out my website for more details. not un-common to catch 15-20 snook…
Inshore Flats Fishing: The redfish are everywhere on the outsides of the bars schooling up with large jacks. The recent heavy rains have most of the other fish pushed to the mouths of all the rivers and creeks. The snook bite has been hot around these same areas. Mangrove snapper have still been finding thier…