December
5th--Lots of Spanish Makerel
After playing with the snook and redfish most of the late summer and fall
months, winters migration has brought on a welcomed change. November we were
still catching keeper snook on the fly. The Spanish mackerel invasion was sensational.
Robert Singletary had a spectacular day doing better than other boats hooking
up large mackerel on the fly. Brian Silver and his group scored big on pompano
and permit in New Pass. Little tunny and a few mackerel have been busting up
near the 3 MI reef. Lee Michael's and his son Jason Managed to hook up trolling
spoons just off the reef. Inside bluefish and ladyfish are abundant. After chasing
the tougher fish around customers never seem to mind the fast action from these
school fish. Look for the weather to remain temperate most of this month with
continued great action.
Big Tarpon!!
Look What Mike Green Caught!!
December Overall Has Been Great
December's
cooler tempertures
brought on hot
action with many
different species
this month. Large
jacks were taking
topwater lures,
flies and jigs
at the green
bridge on the
manatee river.
The middle of
month spanish
mackeral were
running hard
on the artificial
reefs in the
gulf.They were
taking live baits
and jigs. Recently
false albacore
have been blasting
glass minnows
off the beaches.
Anything would
work. We were
casting clouser
minnows and jigs.Last
week pompano
and permit were
running good
in the passes.Night
snook charters
have been very
sucessful with
minnow pattern
flies.Look for
good fishing
between cold
periods.
Snook fishing
has been good
at night even
with periodic
influxes of redtide.
I have been fiding
good bites in
the intracoastal
around Blackburn
bridge. We have
been using both
shrimp and flies.Ladyfish
and Mackerel
blitzes have
been plentyful
in the gulf between
New pass and
Big Pass. Again
flyfishers have
scored big on
the bunched up
fish. Usualy
it's 12lb False
Albacore this
time of year.
We did find them
one morning but
they were fussy
with only two
or three breaking
at a time. We
did manage to
troll some up.Sheepshead
are beginning
to move in Bigtime.Our
fly clubs outing
an hour south
yielded a half
of dozen Snook
many more Redfish
many of them
small and dozens
of Trout. Hats
off to Denise
(my girlfriend)
who out fished
me and landed
her first redfish
on fly.Everything
seems to be late
this year because
of the weather
or lingering
tide. Look for
dramatic improvement
as winter closes
in.
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