Fishing Reports by Capt. Woody Gore

Cold and Windy Fishing - Cold – Windy - Fishing It was cold on the water today. I don't think the temperatures got over 55 all day. The wind was a little tough but not too bad. We fished docks inside residential canals with MirrOlure's suspending MirrOdine and gulp jerk sh more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Fishing the River - Fished the Hillsborough River and Palm River and caught several nice fish. Two Redfish and five smaller snook. We took the snook on shrimp pitched around the rip-rap and docks and the reds came on jerk shads. We also had plenty of jacks and lady fish more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Weatherman Said Don't Go! - Checked the weather forecast for today and the weatherman indicated an approaching cold front with 15-25 knot winds, rain and overcast skies. We guess what as usual they were wrong. Went ahead and had my clients meet me at the ramp around 10 AM to ta more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Cold Winter Morning Trout - Shot over to Clearwater yesterday for some more Trout fishing. You can say what you want about trout but during the winter when other species are quiet you can usually depend on Sea Trout to make your day. Today we use the MirrOlure Twitch bait over more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Cold Redfish Morning - We fished the south end of Tampa Bay looking for a few redfish. I ran early to the Skyway to pickup a few greenbacks and it was the easiest bait getting I've done in a long time. Pulled up under the bridge, tied off to a piling, tossed a handful of j more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Cold Front Makes Them Eat - Ran a trip yesterday out of Clearwater and it started out great, the winds where calm to 5 mph and the fish where eating every shrimp that hit the water. After an hour and a half of steady catching the weather began changing, the winds picked up and more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Cold Front Fishing Stll Ok - This impending cold front slowed the bite down a bit early but after the tide got moving it really picked up. We had a good trout day with most caught on artificial lures worked slowly along the bottom. We drift fished several flats in 2-5 feet of wa more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Love That Full Moon Shallow Water - This morning was another low water day with as all day incoming tide. Today, we fishing the lower end of Tampa Bay and was able to get out and wade. It's always good to wear some sort of foot protection. I use hard soled high to diving shoes with zip more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Shallow Water Redfish - The great thing about a -1.3 full moon tide it's easy to find inshore redfish. Just go shallow and look for the tails. Today was a great time sight casting tailing redfish. The only real problem seemed to be which one to cast too. It seemed like ever more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Up Town Fishing - It was such a windy day I made the decision to stay close to wind breaks. Fished the Hillsborough River, Palm River unrestricted areas of the port in downtown Tampa. Of course the high winds would make it difficult at times but at least we where fish more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay