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Tampa Bay - South Shore
Capt. Fred Everson
August 6, 2007
Tampa Bay - Saltwater Fishing Report
Water temperature in the Gulf of Mexico dropped to 87 degrees this past week with a two-day deluge of rain. This made for slow fishing up until Friday when the sun finally came out again.
There are still plenty of mackerel around the Port Manatee Range markers. I’ve been putting out a chum block, and catching them in the slick with live threadfins. The decline in water clarity has made netting bait easier. The Bahia Beach Basin is loaded with threadfins, which are an excellent bait, dead or alive.
Big jack crevalle are ravaging bait under the docks around the mouth of the Little Manatee River. They are most active on a falling tide. I like to throw surface plugs at them.
Little Cockroach Bay is still producing redfish, but the bite has slowed up, especially during the heat of mid day. I have been catching a few fish around Mag’s Hole on chunks of threadfin herring, but it gets very hot there, even in the morning.
The trout bite has been good on the flats in front of Cockroach Bay at first light. Fish large surface plugs to catch bigger fish.
Capt. Mark Thomas told me he found some tripletail in the North end of the Bay, and chummed them up with live sardines. He also said the snapper bite was hot just outside Gannon Power Plant.
I have not heard much about cobia in the past couple of weeks, but that probably has to do with poor water clarity as anything else.
There are a few tarpon rolling in Ruskin Inlet. Best time to target them is daybreak, or right after a thunderstorm. They seem to get very active once the rain stops.
For more information, call Capt. Fred Everson at 813 830 8890, or visit his website at tampabayfishingguide.com.
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