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Tampa Bay - South Shore
Capt. Fred Everson
December 5, 2006
Tampa Bay - Saltwater Fishing Report
The weather since Thanksgiving has been much better than pleasant. I have been on the water every day for 6 days running, and the fishing has been good.
I was invited to do some scouting in Little Cockroach and Cockroach Bay on Monday with Capt. Chet Jennings in his airboat. We found some snook starting to stack up in the usual winter haunts, and then went out onto the flats looking for redfish. Just south of Sand Key we found a pod of fish in a hole on an extreme low tide. For the better part of an hour we cast to tailing fish, Chet throwing a fly and me throwing a jerk bait. We each caught and released a redfish, which is a pretty good day on tailers. Seeing tails doesn’t necessarily mean catching fish.
I did a lot of wading this week because the conditions were simply perfect. We had a little bit of wind out of the north, but the water was gin clear and the tides extremely low in the afternoon. I found redfish on the flats south of Apollo Beach, and even a couple of cobia. I made five casts to a pair of 25-pound cobia with my long light flats rods, and when one of the fish finally picked up the bait and ran with it, I quickly looked at the spool and knew I was in trouble. But seconds later the hook pulled, and my worries were over.
I have been seeing many flounder in my wade-fishing travels, and I have even hooked a couple of fish, but landed none. The soft plastic rigs I like for redfish are not well suited to hooking the smaller flounder – there is simply too much plastic in the way of the hook point.
Visit Capt. Fred’s website at Tampabayfishingguide.com for charter info, or call 813 830 8890.
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