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Tampa Bay Fishing Report
Capt. TJ Stewart
June 27, 2007
Tampa Bay - Saltwater Fishing Report
Big, bigger, biggest!
Keep on reading and you will find out what that title means. The fishing overall has been great every day has been different then the previous day. We have had a few different species lately that we can add to the list. Some that I have never seen in this part of the bay but that is why it is called fishing because you never know what your going to catch.
Starting with the Snook wow you want to talk about some big numbers. I don’t know the last time that I have seen so many Snook it’s a really great thing to see. It tells me that the Red tide that we had didn’t do too much damage to these great fish. Put it this way if your looking to catch a few Snook find a creek, or an area where a sand bar falls off the edge of a flat. This area on an outgoing tide is were the Snook usually hang and eat like mad. You can catch numbers that would blow your mind.
Red fish, well we still need that rain. The bite for them over the past week has been a little weak. We are still catching a few here and there but the fishing for other fish has been so good that we haven’t put a whole lot of time in. Like I have said in the past report I think a lot of this is because we need more rain to bush these fish out of the rivers. Most of the fish that we have been catching have been mixed in with a good Snook bite the Snook will take a minute off and you might catch a Red fish.
That brings us to some thing a little different. We where out the other day catching some Snook when all of a sudden one of the guys hooks a fish and at first I thought the guy had a nice Snook on but it was fighting a little harder then the Snook we had been catching. Then all of a sudden I see it’s a Barracuda it was only about two feet long but back in the bay. Well to say no more you just don’t normally see them. Hopefully this goes to show us how much our bay is getting cleaned up. Another fish that was a little unusual was the Bonito that I caught with the same guys out looking for a school of Tarpon off the beach. This isn’t as unusually you see a number of these fish just off the beach. But it was a lot of fun. The guy said that if the fish jumped it would be has much fun as catching a Tarpon.
This brings us to the Tarpon that were big, bigger and biggest yet Over the past week we have had some huge fish. The other morning we got hooked up on a big fish that has about 175 lbs. We fought this fish for over 1:30 minutes. We managed to leader this fish and get him up next to the boat. Man it was a big fish! Then we went back and hooked the Momma of this fish. I’m telling you this other fish was over 200 lbs bigger then any thing that I have hooked this year. We thought that the 175 lb. put up a fight! Man I can tell you this was a big fish. We did manage to get this fish up to the boat and leader him so I did get to see him up close. A great fish then the rest of the week most of the fish that we caught or hooked were 150 plus.
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