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Florida Fishing Report for Panama City & Destin
Capt. James Pic
March 26, 2005
Panama City - Saltwater Fishing Report
Panama City, NW Florida
I recently read an article in our local paper often referred to as "The Mullet (W)Rapper", not rapper as in music but rapper in all it's worth is rapping your fish. Course the guy writing could probably make more money singing about "ho's" than talking about fish. The article, which was written by an Alabama transplant that knows little or nothing about fishing, said that another idiot "sheered his pin" on all he spanish in the bay cause it was "the third foggy day of March". I've been keeping records of the arrival of the spanish for almost fifteen years now. The arrival of the spanish is when you can look across the bay and see fish breaking the top to the horizon. Three or four things have to happen before the spanish will arrive. First is the water has to warm to 65 or 66. Second there has to be several days of southeast wind to push the fish and the bait that they are following toward us from the south. This southerly push and the warm water will make for foggy mornings but I think that old wives tale about the spanish arriving on the third foggy day in March was just an excuse for some fishermans wife to get her husband out of the house so she could visit with Jody. Anyway, the last thing needed is a full moon and a spring bay hatch. As I put my boat in the water on Friday I saw the first good school of minnows/frye of the season. Full moon was Friday. A little luck is the fourth. Today makes the third day of SE winds and the fifth in the last week. I would be suprised if the bays aren't spilling over with spanish by Wednesday or Thursday. Time to go fishing. Cocky???? Nope, just been doing this a long time. Funny how when you need to put food on the table you learn how to fish, you know, "give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime".
Want to catch some these guys???? Well, if your from out of town hire me. If your a local the first three weeks of the run we catch more spanish on two things, straw rigs and small gotcha's. Trolling sucks, just drives the bigger fish down. Want to have some fun?????? Turn off the motor and cast a six or eight pound rig at these guys. You will catch more and bigger fish. Fly fisherman should use small flies like number six bonefish gotcha's. Small clousers tied on number six hooks and a six weight are the bomb.
There you have it, spanish this week. Oh yeah, for those of you reading the local mullet (w)rapper there hasn't been a significant amount of sheepshead in the pass yet this year. A few more weeks, mid April.
Email me if you thought the report was good, I'm going to attempt to add some truthful humor from here out.
Capt. James Pic
PS, caught two 10 1/2 pound trout last summer, picture of one will be posted in a couple of weeks.
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