Updated Report For Snook Fishery
Capt. Andy Boyette
January 16, 2010
Boca Grande - Saltwater Fishing Report
*Update*
While what I saw on Monday the 11th was devastating at first, I have spent time checking around the entire area since the freeze and found cause to relax a little bit.
I spent a full day on 1/14/2010 riding the entire area, and found numerous schools of snook alive and well in marina basins, deep water canals,and throughout the harbor, as well as cruising the shoreline in and around Boca Grande Pass as well as Captiva Pass. I also looked throughout Charlotte Harbor, including the mouth of both the Peace and Myakka Rivers and could find no other areas as hard hit. Hardest hit areas are mainly in those with shallow canals, bays, and waterways where snook where caught off guard with no time to migrate.
FWC from St. Petersburg report from Jan 13th 2010, approximately 13,000 out of 493,000 snook died on the east coast of the state, and that 48,000 out of a total 1.13 million snook died on the Gulf side of the state. It seems like a lot, but in a lot of places we found snook congregating in large amounts. They seem to have moved into the harbor and deep-water areas. We saw some floating upside-down on the bottom, but when we bumped them they would turn around and swim. So some may come back. The larger numbers of snook were dying in more northern regions.
I was on the water yesterday 1/15/2009 and encountered numerous redfish migrating back onto the flats. These redfish where not schooled up but where scattered throughout the pot holes and grass flats, mostly singles. Unable to attain a bite after an hour of working the area for redfish, I rounded out the day trout fishing. The trout fishing was at times interrupted by the cloud cover that kept passing, but we managed to put numbers up, well over a 100, to the boat; with a limit of keepers easily attained for my clients.
Capt Andy Boyette
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