January 6, 2012
Last Friday we made our way out to the “Bird Rack”, just off the Levy County and Citrus County Coasts, for some Spotted Sea Trout action. After about 30 minutes of casting a variety of baits around without any luck, we decided to try the warmer waters of the Hot Water Discharge […]
Read More »December 24, 2011
Big Bend friends, Humble apologies is all I have for not submitting a report in such a long time. I was recently scolded by a customer who told me they checked in from time to time to read what I posted. Yes I’ve been busy, but plain old sorryness is […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »October 22, 2011
Schools of Redfish have been spotted in numerous locations off the Dixie, Levy and Citrus County coasts. September and October are the best months to go for that Trophy Redfish in Florida’s Big Bend region. Huge schools of “breed stock” Redfish run inshore up the creeks and rivers near Steinhatchee, Horseshoe, […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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, […]
Read More »September 17, 2011
Greetings from Steinhatchee. It’s still summer here, folks are out trying to get one or two more bags of Scallop meat for the freezer before the extended season closes Sunday the 25th of September. This hot weather makes scalloping very refreshing and a great way to top off a box […]
Read More »September 6, 2011
Here in Central Florida we catch fish 12 months our of the year, although the late summer months remain to be the toughest to do so. As water temps soar into the 90’s, the window of opportunity keeps getting shorter. This equates to getting up very early to catch a […]
Read More »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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