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Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida.
Capt. Bob Smith
April 7, 2002
Sarasota - Saltwater Fishing Report
Kings, Cobia, Cold front?
For the most part, last week was a good week for offshore fishing. The Ice Box area was very hot with kings and some cobia. Even a few sailfish made an appearance and could be seen working the schools of baitfish. The artificial reefs, (M-1) and (M-6) also had plenty of kings and Spanish on and off throughout the week. Towards end of the week, large kings started to show up at the Ice Box area and kings to 30+ pounds were caught on live bluerunners.
On the bay, you could see snook gorging them selves on glass minnows during the incoming tide in some of the channels close to Buttonwood Harbor. Cobias have seemed to have taken up residence around the fenders of the New Pass bridge. Drifting the bottom with live shrimp has been very productive for keeper size cobia and some black drum. Ladyfish and jacks were plentiful with a few pompano, bluefish, Spanish mackerel and keeper size trout also being caught.
On Friday, this was all knocked down with high winds and high pressure as a front came through the area. I did not fish this weekend, but I hope things will be back to normal by Monday.
Enjoy and Protect
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