Tampa Bay, Tarpon Springs, Clearwater & St. Petersburg

Capt. Clay Eavenson
January 10, 2008
Tarpon Springs - Saltwater Fishing Report

Full Recovery

Well,

we've had a few days of warm weather since our severe cold front

that killed a lot of fish. The fishing has been getting better by

the day and today proved that we're back to normal, or even better.

A buddy of mine called me while I was on the way to the ramp and

said that his clients caught over 100 trout this morning before 10am

and that the smallest one was 20"! That's a stellar morning in

anybody's book. Hearing that got me fired up because it made me

think that my redfish may be back on some of my go to spots.

 

I put the boat in in New Port

Richey and ran to the first spot. The tide was pretty low but

rushing in quickly because of the Southerly wind we had. As I inched

my way up on the flat I could see mullet jumping. That was a good

sign because a few days ago the mullet had disappeared along with

the redfish. A few minutes later I saw the first small pod of over

slot redfish. Game on!

 



I

worked that spot and a few others for a little over three hours and

saw well over 500 redfish ranging from 20" to 30+". I didn't catch a

ton of fish, because I was working the flats over pretty fast and

blowing out a lot of fish, but I did manage 6 redfish and one trout.

The smallest red was 22" and the largest was 30". All were caught on

Mangrove Red colored Exude RT Slugs fished on weightless weedless

hooks.

 

I know we have some more cold

fronts coming but none look to be as severe as the one we had last

week so I remain hopeful that these fish will stick around for a

while.

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