What's Biting and Where?
Go Fish: A Banner Day of Fishing
Go Fish for 2/19/12 by Capt. Bill Miller Capt. Billy Miller guided Ron Vaughn and his guests from Illinois on a banner half day fishing trip this week. The day started off of Passa Grille catching loads of hog snapper, sheepshead, catch and release grouper, triggerfish, white grunts and porgy’s. ...
Go Fish: Spanish Mackerel Have Arrived
Go Fish for 2/12/12 by Capt. Bill Miller Spanish mackerel have arrived along our beaches. This appears to be the early scouts with the major migration not far behind. Capt. Billy Miller and I both limited out our parties with Spanish fishing just off Blind Pass on the early ...
Go Fish: Wintertime Trout Season
The wintertime trout season is well under way with good catches coming in from up and down the Suncoast. Capt. Billy Miller is catching lots of slot size, and over slot sized, speckled trout in Boca Ciega Bay and the Ft. Desoto area. Silver trout, the cousin of the ...
Go Fish: Amberjack continue to be strong offshore reports Capt. Jesse Mayer.
Go Fish for 1/29/12 by Capt. Bill Miller Amberjack continue to be strong offshore reports Capt. Jesse Mayer. The action around wrecks and springs in 100 feet has been fair, but 150 feet has been the magic depth according to Mayer. Heavy tackle with blue runners, or ...
Go Fish: Silver trout are schooling up all over the bay area
When I was a young man I first heard them called sugar trout. The reason I was told they were called that was when they were cooked they tasted sweet. I agreed with that then and I agree with that now. Other names I have heard for silver trout include ...
Go Fish: Catching Kingfish
Go Fish for 1/1/12 by Capt. Bill Miller Historically kingfish should have left our area on their southern migration by now. On rare occasion through the years a few kingfish have been caught around Christmas. It appears our warm winter has made this one of those years. Before the ...
Go Fish: For 12/11
Go Fish for 12/11/12 by Capt. Bill Miller Capt. Jason Stock guided me and the “Hooked on Fishing” film crew this week in Sarasota Bay. We started our day poling the crystal clear flats inside of Longboat Pass making long casts to mullet schools with gold spoons that ...
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Go Fish for 12/11/12 by Capt. Bill Miller Capt. Jason Stock guided me and the “Hooked on Fishing” film crew this week in Sarasota Bay. We started our day poling the crystal clear flats inside of Longboat Pass making long casts to mullet schools with gold spoons that ...
Go Fish: Cold Front Means Lousy Fishing?
Go Fish for 12/4/11 by Capt. Bill Miller Conventional thinking has always led some fishermen to believe that the day after a cold front will mean lousy fishing. However, sometimes that is not always the case. Capt. Billy Miller had a charter this week the day after the ...
Go Fish: Redfish continue to the hot inshore bite.
Go Fish for 11/27/11 by Capt. Bill Miller Redfish continue to the hot inshore bite. Last week we caught them on bait, this week we caught them on lures. Capt. Brett Norris guided the “Hooked on Fishing” team to a great day of inshore flats fishing using soft plastic jigs. ...
Go Fish for 11/20/11 by Capt. Bill Miller
The redfish action was off the charts for Capt. Chris Wiggins and me this week during the filming of a “Hooked on Fishing” episode. Wiggins took us to one of his downtown St. Pete spots and the reds were eating every white bait we threw to them. ...
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Capt. George Jonah reports that the school sized kingfish are thick at the South County Reef. Jonah and charter were slow trolling and drifting white bats around the bait pods and catching fish until their arms gave out. Big kings are hanging around the offshore springs in the ...
Go Fish 10.30.11
Capt. Billy Miller and I ran a two boat charter in search of gag grouper this week. Our target area was Times Square, just north of the Egmont ship channel in 35 feet of water. About ½ mile from the rocky bottom I was looking for I put ...
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High winds and dropping temperatures that come with passing cold fronts can slow down the fishing. The winds bring big waves that make it uncomfortable for the angler. The big waves cause the water to muddy making it uncomfortable for the fish. Before a cold front passes the ...
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The kingfish action has been heating up along the Gulf beaches and in the Egmont Ship Channel reports Maximo Marina. Anglers slow trolling a combination of nose hooked white baits and stinger hooked ladyfish and blue runners along the crab trap lines, only a mile or two off ...
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Plenty of fish were caught this week despite the hard northeast wind. Capt. John Topicz reports that charter boats out of Clearwater were catching big mackerel and a few kings on most half day trips. The macs and king were 3-4 miles off the beach. The mitigation ...
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Blue water predators are getting within day range of boaters in the Gulf. Anglers skipping rigged ballyhoo offshore of The Mexican Pride wreck, along the 20 fathom curve, have been consistently catching big mahi, Wahoo and sailfish. Laurence Hall, Don Mastry and friends had some blue water visitor’s ...
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Massive schools of bait fish have moved into our area signaling what should be the start to some terrific fall fishing. As I went out Passa Grille Pass this week it was full of ladyfish and jacks chasing bait fish. So full that when I threw the cast ...
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Redfish are making their presence known around the bay area and West Coast. Good sized schools have been reported in Upper Tampa Bay, Boca Ciega Bay, Ft. Desoto, The Bulkhead and Sarasota Bay. Capt. Brian Caudill reports good reds in the no motor zones at Caladesi and ...
Go Fish for 9/4/11
Capt. T.J. Stewart guided me and the "Hooked on Fishing" film crew to a super day of fishing this week. During a morning fishing trip I landed and released a tarpon, snook, redfish and trout fishing trip giving me a "Super Grand Slam" as recognized by the State of Florida. ...
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