Good Mixed Bag Inshore Naples and Marco
Capt. Todd Geroy
March 26, 2011
Naples - Saltwater Fishing Report
We enjoyed another week of beautiful south Florida spring weather. While the fishing action was a little up and down compared to last week, my anglers still enjoyed some good action on most trips. All in all we are enjoying opportunities to target just about any species with some success.
We continued to find large trout in some of the backcountry channels as well as near the outside passes. Most of the fish are running 17 to 23 inches. They are in full spawn right now and many are as chubby as they can get. We are taking most on live sardines or shrimp free lined in the current. They do not seem to be responding well to artificial baits right now. Charlie Reid of Greensboro, NC and his buddies caught a mess of these fatties on Tuesday along with pompano and whiting.
On a of couple trips, we jigged some outside channels and managed a few pompano, although they do not seem to be in schools right now.
In be back bays, snook fishing continues to be reliable although the bite on some trips last week was affected by some weak tides resulting in some hit and miss action. The afternoon high tides seemed to be the best especially just as it started out. We caught several redfish on the afternoon trips as well, with some falling nicely in the slot.
Tarpon and sharks continue showing up in the area. I did not spend much time targeting them with my trips, but did jump one and caught a few bodacious lemon sharks easily pushing over the 200 lb. mark. One was caught on Thursday morning after an hour long battle by Bill Forte'
Tarpon were showing in the passes early last week when the tides were stronger feeding on the schools of mullet flushing through on the out going tide. A buddy of mine managed multiple hookups on several attempts. Tides should get favorable again by mid week.
-Capt. Todd Geroy
Naples Fishing Forecast:
Tides should start running hard by the end of next week making the snook and tarpon feed better. Trout and pompano should continue to be good targets for table fish.
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