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Ft. Myers - Offshore
Capt. Rick Featherstone
November 16, 2002
Fort Myers - Saltwater Fishing Report
Seasons Change
Greetings;
Well there one thing about the weather that is predictable. Its always changing. As our seasons change from summer, to fall, to winter, several things change as well. Water temperature is believed by many biologist to be the main drive for pelagic fish to migrate. I am sure this is a factor, but in my mind not the main ingredient. The hours of daylight is a big factor in big game animals habits and patterns. I feel the same holds true for our fish as well. I recently had the opportunity to share a campfire with a couple of marine biologist that are studying our Goliath Grouper. As the evening wore on, and the affect of adult beverages took hold, they actually started to give my idea some merit.
Cold fronts have started to sweep through our area this past week. Before the first one on Wednesday fishing was ballistic. Large schools of smoker kings were common, little tunny, spanish, and a handful of blackfin tuna were crashing bait in eye stunning proportions. In addition there were late season tarpon moving through, and very large snook on the artificial wrecks inshore. After the passage of that front the water temperature dropped five degrees. The fish reacted by scattering out through the whole area. My Thursday and Friday trips were half day adventures. I found the fishing clues out there to be much more subtle. Amazingly the water was very clear from thirty feet and deeper. We found kings and spanish from within a mile of the beach out to ten miles. The bait was scattered as well. We caught several species of bottom fish including gag grouper, lane snapper, mangrove snapper, and porgies. Each day we landed two smoker kings with the largest being twenty eight pounds. Cudas were aggressive and we released several up to thirty pounds.
Keep your eye on the fronts as the seas can build rapidly in front of and approaching system.
Sincerely,
Capt. Rick Featherstone
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