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Location: Tampa Bay | Jacks Plentiful In Little Manatee River
By FRED EVERSON
Posted October 22, 2008 by The Tampa Tribune
Water temperature in Tampa Bay dropped significantly with the passing of the first major cold front of the season. Predictably, the fishing was very good ahead of the front and not so hot for a few days after it.
The big positive on Tampa Bay’s South Shore is that there is still plenty of good sized white bait on the flats. I netted bait on Tuesday in the Bahia Beach Basin with a couple of tosses of the quarter-inch net and gilled not a one. No need to chum this bait, either.
That was the high point of my day. The wind was blowing 10 to 15 knots out of the northeast, which necessarily limits travel in a 17-foot skiff, and it also mucked up the water. I saw quite a few bonnethead sharks, very few snook, and even fewer redfish. All we caught with the best live bait of the season was catfish and a single jack crevalle.
Speaking of jacks, they were thick in the Little Manatee River ahead of the front, but haven’t been seen since. The size of these early fall fish was mostly in the four to five pound range, but we did hook some bigger fish upriver last week on live bait.
South of the Little Manatee River, the flats were teeming with fish last week. There were good-sized snook, big trout and redfish all feeding on big schools of glass minnows. I caught two trout on Mirrolure’s 7MR, as well as a snook and a redfish. I was wading in less than two feet of water on the outside of the sandbar, and the water felt much colder than the 79 degrees it was supposed to be. On TV this morning, they said it was down to 75, and that seems closer to the truth.
Contact Fred Everson at (813) 830-8890, or visit his Web site at Tampabayfishingguide.com.
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