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 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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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 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 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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Big Bend Fish On The Move …….

December 4, 2010

Recent cold fronts have the fish moving in off the Dixie, Levy & Citrus County coasts. By the time you read this report, a huge fish migration will have taken place in the Big Bend. Typically we see a slow migration of several different species of fish move inshore during […]

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Long Trip Yields Results

November 30, 2010

Went out to 95 ft, for the last weekend of snapper fishing, after the long 57 mile trip, they started bitting right away, then slacked off, moved around alittle. Ended up with 7 nice snapper and 7 nice grouper. we had better luck with menhaden and sardines, than live bait. […]

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Mid November Cedar Key Fishing Report, 10 miles offshore

November 18, 2010

We had a charter of 4, on a half day trip, headed to 25-28 ft of water. It was kinda rough and “one didn’t fish”, but the other three had fun with plenty of keeper sea bass, grunts and 2 nice keeper grouper, with a few shorts that were released […]

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