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Kingfish
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Location: Tampa Bay | Fish not hungry after holiday
By FRED EVERSON
Posted December 02, 2009 by The Tampa Tribune
Post-Thanksgiving fishing was a bust, and snook season went out with a whimper. I fished Saturday with clients and we got skunked. I attributed it to poor conditions — windy, cold, overcast, and the water was murky. Sunday was a much better day — calm winds, bright sunshine, clearer water — but the results were the same. We saw one cobia Saturday on the flats south of Apollo Beach, and it was a big one, but we never got a good cast to it because it quickly disappeared over the grass.
Sunday started out better. As I was loading the boat from my slip on the Little Manatee River, Mike Strickland spotted a snook under an adjacent dock. He rigged a large live shrimp and put a cast near the fish. Much to his surprise, the fish ate it and took off across the river. Then he thought better of it, came back to the dock and broke the line on a piling. Mike said it was probably just shy of 28 inches.
We headed north to the flats between Simmon’s Park and Apollo Beach trying to skip some pompano. I saw several leap out of the water in my wake the day before, but never put a hook in one. We didn’t skip any on this day.
Then we idled around in 4 feet of water looking for eagle rays and cobia. We saw a couple of rays, but no cobia.
Finally we decided to take a look at the mangrove shoreline for snook and redfish. We saw quite a few snook bunched up in one spot, but they saw us first. I don’t have very good luck casting to snook I can see. In the past fifteen years, I think I have hooked about five snook that I saw before my cast. Needless to say, we didn’t catch any snook and saw only a couple of redfish. Our best chance to put a fish in the boat came from a couple of bonnethead shark strikes, but we missed both.
Visit captain Fred Everson’s Web site at tampabayfishingguide.com for charter info or call (813) 830-8890.
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