February 23, 2015
Cedar Key Inshore Fishing Report With the strong cold fronts and winds, fishing has been tough. The trout are here, just biting slow but still in the 3 to 4 ft grass flats. The reds have been mostly in the back marsh areas around bars but do come out by […]
Read More »December 30, 2014
Cedar Key Inshore Fishing Report At the downtown dock, the Sheepshead are biting good with shrimp, fiddlers crabs and oysters. The trout are hitting good on the grass flats in 3 to 5 feet of water using popping corks with shrimp or gulp baits. The redfish are hitting better in […]
Read More »May 26, 2014
In 55 to 65 ft of water southwest of Cedar Key, Florida the red grouper are on fire and there are plenty of bait pods around as well. They’re hitting on mostly frozen mullet, northern mackerel and thread-fin herring. We also use live pinfish. There are also big gag grouper […]
Read More »March 17, 2014
Inshore Fishing Report The Redfish and Speckle Trout are on fire and are large in size. Fishing around all of our islands and 4 to 6 ft grassy flats, using popping corks and live shrimp, mud minnows or frozen finger mullet has produced results. The Sheepshead are super plentiful around […]
Read More »November 5, 2013
The Gag Grouper are biting great in 24 to 35 ft of water around live bottom and rocky areas, the kingfish hole area west of Sea Horse reef is producing good fish, some up to 30″. The Kingfish are starting to move south but the Sea Bass and Spanish Mackerel […]
Read More »October 16, 2013
The Gag Grouper are biting and are on fire in 30 to 45 feet of water and Red Grouper are biting from 40 to 60 ft. The Kingfish are biting good in 25 to 35 ft as well, we landed a 40 lb’r this weekend. Look for live them on hard bottom area’s, you […]
Read More »July 15, 2013
Fishing in 25 to 28 feet on live & rock bottom areas southwest of sea horse reef, we are catching good size Sea Bass and Grunts and a few keeper sized Gag Grouper and Red Grouper. Also there are a lot of shorts but still fun to catch on lighter […]
Read More »July 9, 2013
The Gag Grouper are biting good and are a nice size in 45 to 60 feet. We’re using live pin fish, frozen thread fins, menhaden, northern mackerel and sardines. The Red Grouper are in the same depths but prefer deeper water and we’re using the same baits. We are also still catching […]
Read More »May 15, 2013
In spite of some late cool weather we are in full spring swing. Speckled Trout fishing has been consistently the best ever. Right now we are catching Trout on the deep flats, jigging and shallow flats jigging or corking with cut pinfish. And some big fish, getting our over 20″ […]
Read More »April 13, 2013
Hi Steinhatchee Friends, what great fishing we’re having and I expect to have for a while. Speckled Trout are feeding good right now and my guess is they are engaged in mating rituals, or getting ready to. Tuesday 4 of 5 trout were males, they were drumming. I’m sure they have […]
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