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Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida.
Capt. Bob Smith
September 8, 2005
Sarasota - Saltwater Fishing Report
All the fish are not dead!
All the fish are not dead!
The bay fishing is improving! Most of our species we normally catch have been caught this past week. During the past week we caught snook, redfish, sea trout, pompano, flounder, mangrove snapper, grouper, ladyfish, sheepshead, and jacks. It sounds good but except for the ladyfish and small snapper. They were hard to find and most were very small. Michael Holman of Winter Park FL did catch a nice three pound pompano at the Ringling grass flats. It was his first pompano.
The Ringling grass flats are holding plenty of bait fish and more small crabs than I have ever seen. Sometimes the silver dollar size crabs would latch onto our shrimp as soon as it started to sink. On my last trip, we had been fishing the Ringling flats and had started home. I had just got the boat up on plane when all the water around us for about a quarter of a mile exploded with jumping, feeding fish, and diving birds. We were just off of Harts reef in ten feet of water. It seemed to be all large ladyfish but I also thought I might have seen some mackerel jump. We stopped to threw some diamond jigs and had a blast for about twenty minutes and left them biting.
Redfish and snook have been mostly active south of the bay, Siesta Key Bridge to Roberts Bay. Fishing the backwaters and docks has produced a few nice fish.
Offshore fishing has been very hard! One of the charter boats I talked to had run 47 miles to find good fishing. Some of the “M” reefs have been holding permit but you need to take along small live crabs for bait.
The nice thing about saltwater fishing is that we don’t need to wait for the fish to grow up after a fish kill like this. On the bay the bait has survived, so now larger fish will move in to take advantage of the thriving baitfish, crabs, and shrimp.
The Redtide has been killing sea life long before man walked on the earth. It is world wide and very little is known about it. Its stimulus could be due to a combination of things like climate and pollution, both natural and man made. It was here before us, so we can't blame the white-man for this one :). Russia has found that if you dust the Redtide with clay, it will stick to the clay and sink to the bottom of the sea. Not much for all the research that has been put into this over the years. I am sure we will hear a lot more theories without foundations in the future. Stopping the dumping of sewage is good regardless!
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