INSHORE and OFFSHORE fishing reports
JUNE 26, 2008
INSHORE - The catch and release snook action has been good just before daylight around the lighted docks along Indian River Drive. We had several fish over the slot. Try free lining a live bait like a pinfish or a pigfish. The trout fishing has also been good at first light and just before dark. The bigger fish are taking live mullet fished in 4 to 6 feet of water just off the edges of the flats. Try the area around Big Mud Creek. I am still getting reports of good catches of snapper along the channel edges and in the Ft. Pierce Inlet and a live shrimp has been the way to go. And, if you are looking for some fun just take a small silver spoon and find the schools of spanish mackerel and bonita that are coming in the Inlet.
West Central Written by Capt. TJ Stewart
June 26th, 2008
Hard work in Tampa Bay pays off!
Hard work definitely pays off, and that is a good thing because the weather hasn’t been the best over the past couple of weeks. It’s summertime in Florida, which is also known to us natives as the rainy season. We’ve put a lot of hard work into running from the rain, but it was well worth the running because the fishing before and after storms has been very good. If you’re out on the water in the summertime in Florida, you better pack your foul weather gear because you can bet that you’ll see rain showers before the day is up. It can be a real nuisance sometimes, but look at it this way…at least it cools you down a little.
Boca Grande to Charlotte Harbor
Written by Capt. Van Hubbard
6-26-08 report Captain Van Hubbard.
It’s been busy and we are enjoying good fishing.
Weather is still a big factor but fishing has been good. Lot’s of tarpon and some big ones. The tarpon are plentiful and cooperating when the winds let us locate em. Crabs are still hard to find but we have been successful thanks to local knowledge. It helps to live here and know the fishermen and crabbers. Threadfins are abundant and the Sabiki rigs are your best bet. Sometimes they are thick enough to cast net but it’s challenging.
Miami Beach
Written by Capt. Bouncer Smith
June 26th, 2008 Southeast Florida fishing report
We left off in our last report with Heather Harkavy catching a pending world record Almaco jack of 31.5 pounds. This fish was only 2 ounces off the 50 pound tackle record but is 9 pounds better than the standing junior female angler record.
After Heather's trip we headed for Bimini with Roberta, Marty and Martini Arostegui. We were on a fish scavenger hunt. We wanted IGFA species for Roberta IWFA species list and grey snappers on fly. Roberta caught 4 new species, rainbow runner, cero mackerel, horse eye jack and little tunny.
Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay
Written by Capt. Butch Rickey
June 26th 2008
It was a vacation week for me, but I did run one trip with Harry Krukenberg and his daughter Allison, from the great state of Ohio. I first fished with Harry and Aly last summer, along with his Dad Herman. They were great folks, and I wouldn't have passed up a chance to fish with Harry and Aly again. I was disappointed to hear that Harry wasn't able to make it for this trip.
Our trip was on Wednesday, and I had been off to weddings in Georgia, and such, and not on the water in almost two weeks. There were only a handful of guides at the ramp, and they all told me there was no bait to be had save for some big threadfins under the bridge or tiny little new hatch shiners that aren't big enough to toss. Not what I wanted to hear!
Tampa Bay’s South Shore
Written by Capt. Fred Everson
June 26th 2008
Typical summer weather this week with rain and wind punctuated by periods of calm. I checked the Gulf water temperature on Friday morning and it was 90 degrees. The tides were moving around the full moon earlier this week, and the bite was fair.
Thursday I tried to get out early in the morning with my fishing buddy Keli Emery, but we had to wait out some steady rain. We finally donned rain gear and headed into Little Cockroach Bay with some frozen threadfin herring. This is redfish candy, frozen or fresh, but the trick to using frozen bait is to keep it on ice and cut it up one bait at a time.
We rigged the chunked bait on half-ounce Rip
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