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Tampa Bay - South Shore
Capt. Fred Everson
December 10, 2007
Tampa Bay - Saltwater Fishing Report
Despite great weather this week, there was light traffic around the mouth of the Little Manatee River. Attribute that to the closure of snook season last Saturday, though some of the guides kept after them as a catch and release proposition. Capt. Danny Guarino said he caught plenty of short snook on live bait earlier this week, but most of the fish were very small.
Capt. Chet Jennings switched his focus to the big jack crevalles that have been in and out of the river for weeks now. He was chumming the fish up with live sardines. Bait is still being netted on the range markers in the middle of the bay, but it gets a little harder with each passing winter day.
Capt. Larry Malinoski went offshore this week and caught snapper, grunts and even trolled up a few kingfish. The kings will stay local as long as the water temperature hangs around 70 degrees.
I am still seeing redfish and snook on the flats between Big Pass and Apollo Beach, along with an assortment of sharks and even a few flounder. I have been targeting the redfish with artificials, and the sharks with live shrimp. The redfish have been hitting a chartreuse pompano jig.
The big surprise for me this fall has been the absence of cobia. I didn’t see a single fish in the month of November on the flats, and I have only heard of a very few fish caught in the middle of the bay. In my best year I caught 11 cobia on the Southshore
Flats in the fall. The spring run was little better, for whatever reason.
To contact Capt. Everson visit his website at Tampabayfishingguide.com or call him at 813 830 8890.
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