Our Weekly Cold Front's !!

Capt. John Fischbach
February 26, 2015
Tarpon Springs - Saltwater Fishing Report

Absolute Florida Flats Fishing, a longtime fishing guide service on the West Central Fl. Gulf Coast, including the Clearwater, Tarpon Spring's and New Port Richey area reports that with the weekly cold front's rolling through our water temperatures have dropped into the 50's. This big change from nearly 70 the early part of last week have the fish confused, it's like a migration every week from warm water refuges to the flat's. Deep holes not exposed to hard north wind's are sometimes the best place to start, as well as protected bayou's in the river and other estuary system's if you get enough tide to get back into them ! Artifiical lures have been very effective lately and a productive method of catching fish this year. Cold fronts turn the Snook and Redfish off, as they are temperature sensitive at different stages of degree's, so I've concentrated on catching lot's of game fish like the Spotted Sea Trout, deep grass flats and the edges of these flats, the drop-off's where the sand meet's the grass and deep residential canal's, plus any warm water outflow like the Anclote power plant have been holding fish, there's a lot of water out there so you have to continue to locate them, they usually don't move to far but drastic changes will liven them up to forage for food on the shallower parts of flats, start where the grass potholes and broken bottom is and work your way up onto the flat to catch them sunning, work all your bait's very slowly in these condition's, at the time of this report the water is beginning to warm up into the 60's ! Here comes Spring and the migration bait-fish run !

Tarpon Springs Fishing Forecast:

These cold fronts will begin to stall before they reach us, and there will be some of the best fishing of the year !!

Target Species:

Snook, Red-fish, Spotted Sea Trout, More

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