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Kingfish
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Location: Tampa Bay | Fish Have Been Tough To Catch
By FRED EVERSON
Posted November 12, 2008 by The Tampa Tribune
Fair weather made for some great fishing this past week, but the catching wasn’t that hot. I tried redfish and snook on the flats between Apollo Beach and Big Pass, and we caught a few fish, but we had to work for each one. Mike Strickland caught a short redfish and a keeper on live sardines, along with a couple of trout. I caught a short redfish on a dark-colored jerkbait as we drifted across the flats between Sand Key and Big Pass.
Captain Chet Jennings told me he has been catching a few snook, but the bite has been slow. Captain Danny Guarino said he went offshore one day last week and caught a cooler full on a hot bite.
On Monday, I did a short trip to the flats south of the Little Manatee River and saw plenty of reds and quite a few snook, but none would so much as bump an artificial. There is still bait on the flats and on the range markers. Guarino said he had so much bait in his net one day this week that the weight tore the net to pieces. It’s hard to believe that the bait can stick around much longer, but there have been times in the past when it could be found in the bay through the winter.
Still nothing on cobia, and if I don’t see a few fish on my next trip I’m going to give up on them. I am seeing large numbers of sheepshead on the flats. That’s a good sign, because redfish usually follow. Sheepshead on the flats have proved practically impossible to catch. In all my years of fishing Tampa Bay, the only sheepshead I’ve seen caught on the flats was taken by a client who was casting to tailing redfish with a live shrimp. They do feed in the deep holes and passes on extreme low tides, but you have to walk a piece to get at them.
Visit captain Fred Everson’s Web site at Tampabayfishingguide.com for charter info or call (813) 830-8890.
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