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Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida
Capt. Mike Locklear
April 5, 2006
Homosassa - Saltwater Fishing Report
Spring is Back!
This past weekend the weather was beautiful for both inshore and offshore fishermen. Just a light southwesterly breeze on Saturday made conditions near perfect.
The big talks around MacRae’s docks were the kingfish brought in by Captains Don Chancey and Duane Tibbetts. Duane and Janice along with two others had their 2 each. All 8 weighed 64 pounds. Capt. Chancey had a nice catch of grouper, the largest 14 pounds with two kings.
Vulcan Materials of Asheville, N.C. headed by Dennis Atkins wore out the trout with 5 of Homosassa’s finest guides. 90 keeper trout between 16 to 22 inches were landed on Saturday using mostly Cajun Thunder 3” cigar floats over Bass Assassins in Electric Chicken. Each angler had their limit with a few redfish sprinkled among the catch.
On March 22, 8 anglers landed 40 trout with four of Homosassa’s top guides. In high winds with plenty of sunshine, Bill Lundy and crew of Vulcan Materials of Charlotte, N.C. became even happier via a dinner by “Rabbit” the head chef of Riverside Crab House next to Monkey Island on the Homosassa River.
John Euart and with his family and friends did real well landing both trout and redfish catches from the gulf near the Homosassa/Atlanta Fishing Club. Chris Bowers landed some really nice fat Gator trout while John caught the largest redfish. Casey and his friend also landed some real beautiful trout and some redfish.
Most all of the trout were landed in 3-4 feet of water near creek mouths on soft plastics using long cast with light 8-pound lines from Power Pro or Triple Fish RX.
Guides use a variety of bait manufacturers including Cotee jigs in 4” twin pearl white and grubs in rootbeer/goldflake. Also Bass Assassin in goldfish 4” shad. Berkley Gulp is also good and sold at Ed’s Tackle Shop in Crystal River.
For hooks try 1/8 oz. red jig heads from Cotee or Daiichi Blood Red 4/0 worm hooks. Red color triggers a bite in trout strikes as they eat by sight and movement usually taking the bait on the drop.
Redfish action has been sporadic lately. Johnson gold spoons in ¼ oz. Or 5” Bass Assassin jerk baits in new penny, goldfish, white and bone diamond are top producers.
Mirrolure Catch 2000 with a black back, silver sides and white belly is a hard bait twitch with two oversized red eyes that both trout and redfish can not resist in shoreline fishing a high tide. Look for these at West Marine, Skidmore’s, Blue Water Bait or MacRae’s.
You have to twitch this lure and stop your retrieve momentarily while doing so. Crank at slow speeds and test the lure at boat side to get the feel of the drop. It catches fish in 2 feet of water if worked properly.
Weather prognosticators are predicting a 15-knot wind for Saturday, so that means keep checking and hope it changes to a more appealing speed like 10-knots or less. Sunday's forecast looks a little better with winds around 10-knots.
Like the late Ernie Lee used to say every morning, “Get out there and go fishing because it is g-o-o-o-o-d fer ya!”
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