Cedar Key Offshore Report

November 15, 2011

Well, with the gag grouper season closing this week, the thousands of big gags out there will be safe for another year. Saturday, November 12th, was a rough trip, cold, windy and 3-6 foot seas, the bite was slow but there were good red grouper & gag grouper in 45 to […]

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Plenty of Redfish and Trout to be Caught

November 14, 2011

From the Suwannee to Waccasassa and all around the oyster bars, corrigan’s reef, deadmans channel, gomez and in the back creek mouths, there are plenty of redfish to be caught, the trout are also there, still around the grass flats and hard bottom areas. There also have been good numbers of […]

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Cedar Key Marina from the air

Cedar Key Inshore Fishing Report

September 21, 2011

You can find nice speckled trout all over the flats, near almost any grassy bottom and along cuts and islands using Cajun Thunder corks, live shrimp or Gulp (root-beer color). If you use a live pinfish you’ll catch larger trout, maybe not as many, but more quality. I have heard to reports […]

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Cedar Key Offshore Fishing Report

September 20, 2011

A Quick Cedar Key Offshore Fishing Report Opening weekend for gag grouper, we started at 7:30 am and used live pins and pigfish, also used mullet, boston mackeral and threadfins. We started fishing in 40 ft, got two keepers and many shorts, both reds and gags. Then we went to 48 and 50 ft, […]

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Cedar Key Offshore Fishing Report

August 12, 2011

Sea Bass and Grunts are plentiful in 28–32 feet of water on live bait in hard bottom area’s. There are plenty of short and keeper size Gag Grouper in 35-45 ft of water and soon, Sept. 16th they will be open in Federal Waters. Which, in 50 to 70 ft there […]

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Cedar Key August Inshore Fishing Report

August 11, 2011

There are Lots of Redfish in by Deadman’s Channel near the bars and grassy bottom area’s and good size trout have been caught in same area and out by Crest Mott and near Snake Key in the finger channels. And there are also have been some big black drum caught […]

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Cedar Key Offshore Fishing Report – 5-26-11

May 26, 2011

Kings and moving in thick, slow troll or use a flatline with a live pin or I like a frozen threadfin, look for bait pods and start there. I’ve had great luck in 50 to 65 ft while grouper fishing, there lots around, bait pods are key to were to […]

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Cedar Key Inshore Fishing Report

May 25, 2011

South East of Snake Key, Deadmans channel, and all flats in 3 to 6 ft of water are producing plenty of trout, reds, sharks, some cobia and the tarpon are there as well. Bait of choice is a chartreuse 3/8 jig, tipped with shrimp or new penny gulp, and of […]

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Cedar Key Inshore Fishing Report

April 12, 2011

In the flats and around the islands, there are plenty of trout,?red fish and?Spanish Mackerel. Use Cajun thunder corks and jig heads tipped w/ shrimp and you can’t go wrong with gulp’s either. There has been a couple of reports of cobia caught in the shallows as well. I?foresee in […]

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Cedar Key Offshore Fishing Report

April 11, 2011

The water has finally warmed up to around 75 degrees in the afternoon and around 69 degrees in the am. Bait pods are showing up and?there are plenty of Spanish Mackerel and some Kings at around 25 to 35 ft. At 50 ft around wrecks and strong structure there are […]

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