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fishing report for Estero Bay
Capt. Jon Fetter
December 29, 2013
Estero Bay - Saltwater Fishing Report
The word for the week is options, anglers can pick their target species and pretty much catch it. With the bait still on the beaches there are plenty of ways to go about it this week. The backbay redfish bite has been very good with some upper slot fish being caught. The bait of choice is whitebait free lined on 2/0 circle hooks or a jig tipped with shrimp thrown up along the mangroves on the top of either tide. Snook are still around the floating docks and will stay as long as the water temps stay put. Free lined baits on 3/0 circle hooks will work fine. The sea trout bite has also increased with many fish taken with the good old shrimp under a popping cork set-up. Work the grass flats near the passes in 2-4 feet of water. The sheeps are also starting to begin their winter feed and will gladly take shrimp tipped jig heads or #1 circle hooks with split shot thrown up around the oyster bars and mangrove islands. There has been a good bite on the nearshore reefs with variety being the ticket. Shrimp tipped jig heads have been producing Spanish mac's, snapper, grouper, sheepshead, grunts, and even a few flounder. Locate the structure and anchor up from it and drift your baits back. Anglers can chum with shrimp pieces to get the bite going, but once it starts it is constant.
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