Cedar Key Offshore Fishing Report

August 9, 2012

If you’re fishing offshore you can catch both gag grouper & red grouper in water as shallow as 30 ft, but there are plenty of shorts as well. Also there have been good size sea bass in 30 to 40 ft on hard rocky bottom areas. If you move out […]

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Cedar Key Inshore Fishing Report

August 7, 2012

There have been good reports of nice trout in 10 to 15 feet of water and some on the shallow flats. Redfish have been good sizes around corrigans reef, osenotie, north key and inshore oyster bars. A moving tide is key, using cut mullet, finger mullet, shrimp and new penny gulps. […]

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Cedar Key Fishing Report From Captain John Blouse

June 15, 2012

The red snapper are biting good in 85 to 96 feet of water on thread-fin herring, sardines, and live pin fish. We had the best luck keeping our baits about 10ft off the bottom. The red grouper are on fire in 60 to 75 feet, but they are also in 40 […]

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Cedar Key Fishing Report: Offshore

May 28, 2012

We are mostly targeting red grouper, seabass, king fish, and the world famous grunts (Cedar Key Snapper). The red grouper are biting great in 50 to 75 ft of water, but can also be caught in 35 to 45 ft of water, just not as many keeper size. Of course […]

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Cedar Key Fishing Report: Inshore

May 27, 2012

The trout are in thick and the best reports are south of snake key in the finger channels in 5 to 10 ft of water. Drifting and using a Cajun thunder popping cork and about 4 ft of leader line, #3 to #5 hook and baited with live shrimp, small […]

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Cedar Key Offshore Fishing Report

March 15, 2012

The best bet for offshore fishing is Sheepshead, they are on fire. Head out to the reefs and concrete piles, using light tackle, 1 or 2/0 sharp hooks with shrimp, fiddler crabs or oysters. They are ranging from 12 to 20 inch. Also the Sea Bass are “thick as thieves” […]

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Cedar Key Inshore Fishing Report

March 13, 2012

For results, fish around the southeast side of Senodie Key and around Grassy Key in 3 to 5 ft of water and many other grassy flats in same depth, the Speckled Trout are on fire. Using Cajun Thunder floats, 3ft of leader, 1/4 oz jig heads and shrimp. Redfish are biting good […]

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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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