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Kingfish
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Location: Tampa Bay | Bite heats up as wind dies down
By RANDY ROCHELLE
Posted November 23, 2009 by The Tampa Tribune
The winds finally laid down for a couple of days, allowing anglers to head out and do a little grouper digging.
Captain Matt McDuffee and crew found a hot bite in 40 to 60 feet of water just a tad north of the Ship Channel. Fishing small breaks, they managed a limit of nice gags to 17 pounds, a dozen or so quality mangos and a few other bottom dwellers. Sardines produced a couple of keepers, but live pinfish was the key to bagging a limit. Matt also said kingfish kept his anglers busy. Each time we dropped a bait back it got devoured before you could get the rod in the holder. If you don’t have any live bait to drop bait then drift a dead sardine back in the chum slick. Kingfish rarely will pass on an easy meal — dead or alive.
The red grouper bite has been good, although not many anglers are targeting them. With the gag grouper and snapper chewing in 30 to 70 feet it doesn’t make much sense to run out to 100 feet for reeds. Now if you bag a quick limit of gags and the seas are clam, then a run to deeper water just might be worth it.
Mackerel and kingfish are chewing in as little as 15 feet along the beaches. Areas of live bottom outside the passes are holding bait and as long as the bait is there the kingfish and macks will be too.
Captain Randy Rochelle runs the “Gotta Go” out of St. Petersburg and can be reached at (727) 365-3218 or islandercharters.net.
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