Fishing Florida Flats

Fishing Report Week Of 2/20/2018 Red fishing is back and strong, Thanks to the warm weather it looks like the Red are in the mood to eat. I want to thank Captain Mike of Nature Coast Inshore Charters for taking me out on his boat, Captain Mike landed a nice Red, photo below on his first cast of the day, we were fishing only 2 feet of water near a dock in Tarpon Springs after that many more were landed all the way up to Hudson Florida. Look for Reds out in the open now they have moved almost all the way out from the backwaters. Here is some more good news white bait is back, we been finding white bait from Tarpon Springs to Hudson on the low-lying grass flats just a little chum and they will come but mostly early in the morning later in the day is a little harder to find them but not impossible. This week the best fish to target would be Reds, Seatrout and Sheepshead. On one of my charters this week we ran into the first Cobia for 2018 season which is my favorite fish to Target. I

Fishing report week of February 7 th 2018 Things are looking up after a lot of cold fronts the warm weather is here, at least for now. We are starting to see the fish coming out of the backwater like Snook, Red Fish and even Seatrout. Think about it just 10 days ago the water temperature was in the low 50’s as of today we were marking in some spots 68 degrees. If you are going out now look to go to the spoil islands, sand bars with pockets of deeper water and springs are still pretty good.  We have been targeting allot of Sheepshead because they seam to like the cold water, we are fishing the canals and rock piles. Using live shrimp or crab they do make great meals. Seatrout, look for grass beds near the mouths of the channels Snook and Reds look for the mullet in some warmer spots and you should see them piled up but they have not been to happy with live shrimp not sure why, but they seem to be killing the artificial bait. The biggest thing I can recommend this week is take eve