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2014-02-08
10:21 AM
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Feels like spring almost - The Super Bowl is over--time for fishing to take center stage. Winter is almost over and water temps are starting to come up. Spanish Mackerel are showing in bigger numbers around the bay and deep water grass flats. It will not be long before white b more...
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2014-01-14
4:37 PM
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Winter time fishing Anna Maria - Weather is key in the winter. Fronts come in every five to seven days. If you can time things right fishing between the fronts can really be rewarding. Shrimp and jigs will be the baits of choice. Patterns change from mangroves and shallow grass flat more...
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2013-11-06
8:25 AM
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Fall Fishing from Anna Maria - The migrations are in full swing. From the beaches to the backcountry and from northern waters to warmer southern waters. Fish are on the move for food as well as for comfort. Anytime fish have to get ready for winter they have to feed. This is good more...
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2013-10-05
4:16 PM
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Fall Fishing from Anna Maria - Fall fishing is in full swing off Anna Maria. It is almost like what do you want to fish for time of year. Water temps are in the low eighty's and it won't be much longer and Kingfish will be off the beaches in good numbers to target. Right now spani more...
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2013-09-08
8:21 AM
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Early Fall Fishing - I can not believe another summer has come and gone. It has almost been a year since I trailered the Fishy Business IV home. September 1986 twenty-seven years since I passed the coast guard exam. Boy does that ring a bell! I guess that is how it goes more...
Capt. Rick Gross - Anna Maria |
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2013-07-02
8:29 AM
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Summertime Fishing off Anna Maria - It is beat the heat time of year off Anna Maria Island. I really like half day trips this time of year. I try and leave the dock by 6:30am and be back by 10:30am. This dose two things it still is not to hot out and we miss the afternoon thunderstorms more...
Capt. Rick Gross - Anna Maria |
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2013-05-19
11:22 AM
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May 19 Fishing Report Anna Maria Island On Fishy Business - The weather has been nothing short of spectacular here in southwest florida. Also the fishing is some of the best of the year. Tarpon are showing up in better and better numbers each week. And it looks to be a good season for the silver king. Pass cr more...
Capt. Rick Gross - Anna Maria |
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2013-04-10
3:39 PM
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April 10 2013 Anna Maria - April is finally here and with it some of the best fishing. This week fishing really heated up on the flats around lower Tampa Bay. On Saturday we tried some nearshore reefs for spanish mackerel. The bite was not the best and we only landed a few sma more...
Capt. Rick Gross - Anna Maria |
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2013-03-26
10:47 AM
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March Fishing 3/26 - Wind, wind and more wind! I think I have had maybe four days this month where it was not blowing more than fifteen knots or better. I can fish most days depending on which direction the wind is coming from. The only direction from my location on Anna more...
Capt. Rick Gross - Anna Maria |
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2013-03-17
11:54 AM
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March Fishing - I think it is safe to say that spring is here. It has been a crazy couple of weeks. Lets hope that the old saying of March rolling in like a lion and leaving like a lamb holds true. The start of the week we fished the flats and bays for snook, reds a more...
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