What's Biting and Where?
Go Fish for August 28, 2011
Mangrove snapper are feeding heavily along the channel edges, rock piles and bridge pilings. Small to medium white bait and live shrimp is the best bait.Good snapper reports are coming in from the rocks at Demen's Landing, Bahia Beach Reef, Port Manatee Reef and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.Close in gulf ...
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Capt. Larry Blue had a banner day trolling for mackerel in the Times Square area catching double digit limits, and more, in a half day. Blue and party were trolling #1 spoons behind #1 and #2 planers.Spanish mackerel was the catch of the day for Capt. Billy Miller and his ...
Go Fish for August 13, 2011
Spanish mackerel made a strong showing at the gulf artificial reefs before the rainy weather visited us. Capt. Billy Miller was catching over 100 of the hungry macs a day with his charters trolling #1 silver spoons and drifting over the reefs with live bait. Big barracuda were also ...
Go Fish for July 31
Amberjack season opens up this week and anglers ready for a tussle should load up the heavy tackle, live bait and head west.Amberjack can be found on wrecks, springs and high structure. The better depths are from 80 feet and out.Live bait such as blue runners, pinfish and big white ...
Go Fish for July 24
I just returned from a family vacation in Key West. So what does a fisherman do on his vacation? Fish, of course.We chartered a sport fisherman at the famous "Charter Boat Row" for a day of offshore trolling. Our target was dolphin with the possibility of marlin.Capt. Bryce Barrs and ...
Go Fish for July 10, 2011
Tarpon fishing continues to be good around the Tampa Bay area. Anglers fishing from the Redington Pier had a banner week with many tarpon caught and released. Pinfish, green backs and pumpkin seeds are the best baits from the pier. Capt. Billy Miller guided the father son team ...
Go Fish for 6/25/11
Capt. Eddie Herrington reports that tarpon fishing on the Redington Pier is red hot. The best time has been in the afternoon although morning has produced some fish. Pinfish and pumpkin seeds, caught with a Sabiki, have been the best baits. Greg LaChance fought a giant tarpon from the pier ...
Go Fish for June 19, 2011
Summer is the time in Tampa Bay for black tip sharks. The black tips can be found around range light markers, the edges of grass flats next to open bay, like Pinellas Point, and over rocky area bottom areas. Good bait for black tips is anything fresh and stinky ...
Go Fish fior June 12, 2011
Tarpon has been the focus of Capt. Billy Miller and me this week. The tarpon bite has been consistent with some days spectacular. Capt. Billy and I were joined by Jason Beyer and Brad Weary for a “Hooked on Fishing” tarpon shoot in Tampa Bay. We had bait well full ...
Go Fish for June 5, 2011
Tarpon season is in full swing along the west coast of Florida. Tampa Bay has lots of hungry tarpon around the Skyway Bridge and around the Gandy and Frankland bridges both at night and day. Sarasota Bay has tarpon near the Ringling Museum and other deeper basins surrounded by grass ...
Go Fish for May 29, 2011
The Egmont Ship channel has been active this week. Lots of bait is around the markers and predatory fish are there feeding on the bait. Brandon Cochran, fishing with Larry Mastry, caught a 45 pound amberjack slow trolling big green backs around the bait schools. It took Cochran 45 minutes ...
Go Fish for 5/22/11
Pompano fishing has been excellent this week. Anglers at the Skyway piers have been having good luck vertical jigging yellow or white pompano jigs with pink teaser flys. Anglers fishing the morning tide at The St. Pete Pier, in downtown St. Pete, have been using the same technique and limiting ...
Go Fish for 5/15/11 by Capt. Billy Miller
Sharks were the catch for the Hooked on Fishing film crew this week. We fished with Capt. Dave Blanchard and Capt. Daniel Long for sharks at night near Honeymoon Island. A 15 pound kingfish and a 10 pound sting ray were used for our big baits on 80 pound class ...
Go Fish for May 8, 2011
Capt. Ray Markham guided me and the “Hooked on Fishing” film crew to a great catch of speckled trout in Terra Ceia Bay this past week. Markham was using a black back and silver side Mirrolure Top Pup and I was using my favorite red head, chartreuse back and silver ...
What's Biting and Where for 4/24/11
Speckled trout and Spanish mackerel continue to be the go-to fish for most anglers. One reason is they are the most consistent. Both species will be around all summer and into the winter without much changing of locations. Grass flats are where you find trout. Depth range for consistent catches ...
Go Fish for 4/17/11
This week I took a group from Travers City, Michigan fishing. Patrick May and his two sons had been in our area for a week and had caught plenty of trout and wanted to try for some kingfish. Icaught bait at The Skyway and we headed to St. Pete Beach. ...
Go Fish for 04.07.11 by Capt. Bill Miller
Spanish mackerel and kingfish were biting well off of Clearwater this week before the bad weather came through. Capt. John Topicz reports easy limits of Spanish trolling #1spoons behind 2 ounce trolling leads. The Spanish were 1.5 miles off Clearwater Pass and the kings were caught slow trolling ballyhoo over ...
Go Fish for 3/27/11 by Capt. Bill Miller
Land based anglers have had good action this week. Silver trout and sheepshead have been biting well at the Ballast Point Pier for anglers using live and fresh dead shrimp around the pilings. Spanish mackerel and pompano provided good catching for anglers fishing from the Skyway Piers reports Bill Dumansky. ...
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