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Sarasota and Venice
Capt. Rick Grassett
October 15, 2003
Sarasota - Saltwater Fishing Report
Sarasota, FL Fishing Report for 10/5 through 10/15/2003
Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict caught and released snook, trout and redfish during the past 10 days. Fish were caught on flies and lures and in addition anglers also connected with a couple of tarpon.
Fly angler, Jim Roat from Shreveport, LA, fished Sarasota Bay with me last Thursday. On his first saltwater fly fishing excursion he caught and released his first redfish near Ringling on an Enrico Puglisi Reds Critter fly. We then moved to the gulf where Jim sight-cast to snook at the north end of Longboat Key. Although they were plentiful, we only had a couple of follows and no strikes. Back in the bay during the afternoon, Jim connected with bluefish, ladyfish and trout on Clouser flies near Whale Key and Bishop Point.
Fly anglers, Sandy Lawrence from Sarasota, FL, and Merritt Carlton, from Amelia Island, FL, fished upper Charlotte Harbor canals for tarpon with me on Monday. We located a couple of nice concentrations of tarpon but they were being very finicky, as they can be sometimes. We tried several different fly patterns and color combinations before hooking up with a chartreuse/white bunny fly. Sandy hooked a couple of fish, but they both came off. Merritt also got a strike after I switched him to a similar fly. We used 350-grain Orvis Depth Charge fly lines and a short leader to get the flies into the strike zone quickly in the 10 to 12-foot deep water.
Mark Hughes and Terry Crews, both from Sarasota, FL, fished Sarasota Bay with me on Tuesday. Mark hooked up right away with a weedless-rigged CAL shad tail and landed a 26+” snook near Buttonwood Harbor. Although the water we fished after that was very fishy and we saw numerous snook, they didn’t bite. We switched to deeper grass flats near Whale Key and Buttonwood Harbor where they caught and released numerous trout with CAL jigs and DOA Deadly Combinations with a glow shrimp.
Flats fishing should turn on when a front is scheduled to pass through our area later in the week. I also look for cobia to become more plentiful and action in the coastal gulf waters with Spanish mackerel and little tunny to take off.
Tight Lines,
Capt. Rick Grassett
www.flyfishingflorida.net
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