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Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report

Venice to Cedar Key

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Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report

Postby captchas » Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:04 pm

Tampa Bay Area
Fishing Report
Captain Charles Walker
6/1/03
There are still kings to be caught offshore. Of course they are mixed in with sharks and barracuda so you will have to be fast to get the kings to the boat once they are hooked or you'll just feed the toothy critters and only get one or two bites off each fish you bring in for yourself. Lots of Spanish mackerel are out there as well in 40 to 60 feet of water around the artificials and the bigger areas of hard bottom and drop offs. If you go out and see big schools of bait on the surface, it usually pays to troll around them. With all the hot weather we've been having the water temperature is rising fast and most of the grouper are looking for cooler temperatures. Lots of brown algae is growing on the rocky bottoms and that makes it difficult to keep a clean hook that the grouper will eat, so the best you can do is hunt around until you don't bring up brown stuff on your hook and fish there for a while.

On to the bait house reports:
Ruskin Bait and Tackle - 813-641-2325 - Reds, trout, snook, some flounder, mangrove snapper, cobia around the channel markers, and grouper in the ship's channel are the catches for this week. Fishing should be really great until it gets too hot to go fishing.

Minnows and Monsters in Tampa - 813-835-1512 - Tarpon are just all over the Bay this week. They are biting on both live and dead baits. Some really nice cobia have been caught along the markers and several triple tail have been caught in the same area by cobia fishermen. Reds are on the flats from Weedon Island to Apollo Beach and they are really biting on pugs, white and gold being the best producing colors.

Fisherman's World in Tarpon Springs, 727-942-8944 - Lots of tarpon are between Honeymoon Island and Caladesi. We had some reports of kingfish in the same area. The hot lure seems to be the "Texas Chicken". For snook catch and release, try the north side of Anclote on a strong tide.

Trappman's Bait and Tackle on Gandy Blvd in St. Petersburg - 727-579-1414- Lots of cobia hook ups around the bridge and lots of snook hook ups around the Howard Franklin. Notice the phrase "hook-ups" not catches. They are even taking 80# test around the pilings and cutting them off. The one and two tide days starting tomorrow will slow things down to a crawl but it will change again next weekend.

Don's Dock on Madeira Beach - 727-391-3223- Tarpon fishing is hot right now on the beaches. Redington Pier seems to be the really hot spot for tarpon this week. Catch and release snook fishing is good at night right now. The jetties have been producing Spanish mackerel, mangos, bluefish, and jacks.

Fathoms on the Dock at Maximo in St. Petersburg - 727-867-3603 - The winds have been so high the past few days that no one has really been offshore except one or two hard core big boats. Some nice trout were caught in the vicinity of the Misener Bridge.

Pass-a-Grille Bait and Tackle on St. Pete Beach - 727-360-6606- Lots of mangrove snapper and a few keeper grouper and Spanish mackerel have been coming from around our gas dock. Some real nice grouper and mangrove snapper have come in on our offshore boats. There are schools of tarpon running up and down the channel off our docks, but they are not cooperating with too many anglers this week. Most of the tarpon that have been caught have come from the beaches on the Gulf side of the Island.

The Skyway Fishing Pier - 727-865-0668 and the south Skyway - 941-729-0117- Lots of grouper and mangrove snapper are biting right no. Some nice pompano have been caught today. Spanish mackerel are biting in the early morning and the late afternoon. Blacktip sharks are really around the piers in good numbers and biting well. Speckled trout are biting at night right now and the biggest ones have been coming in on cut bait.

Folks, feel free to call any of the places in my report for more information, and be sure to tell them that you read about the fishing in their area in Capt. Charlie's fishing report on the Internet.

If you want more information about fishing in the Tampa Bay area or wish to book a charter, simply e-mail me at [email protected] or if you wish to arrange a charter faster, call me at 727-546-7257. Be sure and visit my web site for lots more Tampa Bay Area fishing info at: http://www.floridasaltwater.com .

Good fishing and tight lines,
Capt. Charlie
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