Florida Big Bend & Gulf Coast Fishing Reports

Hello Gulf Lovers, Wednesday night at 7p Fellowship Baptist is inviting folks who would like, to join us praying for our coast, fisheries, businesses, and neighbors. Praying that God would spare us any impact from the oil spill and also to bless the efforts of all those trying to stop the leak, and clean it up.

Right now, indications are the impact to the Big Bend part of Floida will be minimal if any. The NOAA site seems to be a good source of updated info. As much as I like CNN, FOX, ABC news etc., I think NOAA is better for this kind of tragedy coverage.

FYI.

Below is a link to a great website that provides comprehensive information on the oil spill response effort in the Gulf. Now called Deepwater Horizon Response. It also contains important links and other general information on oil spill response.

http://gulfseagrant.tamu.edu/oilspill/index.htm

Also, for further information and daily updates, you can visit:

http://www.floridadisaster.org/index.asp  (click on the DEM homepage)

Fishing was good for Reds last week and Trout continue to be unpredictable at best. I made a drift one morning and caught 7 nice Trout, backed up, fully expecting to do it again and did not catch one more that day, in that spot.

As I have said in many other reports, it is still about water temp. Last Wednesday morning, air temp was 54, water was 62. These kinds of flucuations keep fish on the move. I know we have a Trout bite coming that will great fun.

We’ll keep fishing, because I like to say, “you don’t know if you don’t go”.

Thanks For Checking In, Pray For Our Coast If You Will.

God Bless and Good Fishing

Captain STEVE KROLL

This Steinhatchee Fishing Report is from Steinhatchee Fishing Guide Captain Steve Kroll

Clean Water, Blue Skies, Nice Red Fish that’s Steinhatchee

Makes You Want To Call In Sick

I’m sure everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Happy New Year, may God Bless it for you and your family.

Again, I have to have a weather conversation. I sitting in the house watching the wind howl out of the north-stiff. It’s 52 degrees and sunny now. The rain ended this morning about 8. Today is one of those days that I’m glad to be in the house keeping the wood stove stoked. The clothes you would have to wear to be comfortable in todays kind of wind chill make it difficult to fish.

I have been able to go a couple days this week and last. The results were mixed.

I have said it many times about Steinhatchee winter fishing, “it’s going to be real good or real bad”.

The fish are bunched up and success depends on finding them. Three out of four days I found them. Speckled Trout, keeper size, including some big trout we had to release on our way to a limit, is what we were catching one day. The reds we’ve caught have been small. I believe slot size reds move to more inaccessible locales like creek and river holes. We need a few days of warm weather to bring them out and stimulate a bite.

Offshore reports have been good for grouper and snapper when weather permitted.

A Cold Weather Steinhatchee Trout