This week wasn’t as good as last week at all. We went for 3 or 4 days with hardly a bite. Only thing we can think of was the full moon. It brought in a pile of scattered weeds and shut the ocean down. It’s definitely coming back each day, though. For what it’s worth, the bottom fishing has been better than trolling.

The offshore bite West of Tampa Bay has been great. The red grouper have been very active on live pinfish with the best chance for the larger fish in at least 75′ of water. Mangrove, […]

I fished both nearshore and offshore this week. The dolphin bite has been the best we’ve seen in a few years, for sure. The winds and late fronts have kept the fish around for the last few weeks. The snapper and Cobia bite has been good, as well, for sure. Closer to shore, there’s been some good action with jacks, mackerel, and plenty of sharks.

May is all about having options. With any luck our 4 month stretch of rough seas will subside and we will be able to enjoy everything May has to offer.

As we near the end of this segment of snook season, I’m happy to report the bite is still good! The top-water bite is steady for snook, jacks and an occasional gator trout in the backwater jungles north of town.

The snook bite is pretty good at the inlets this week. Live pogies, pilchards, greenies and majorra are the top live baits to try for them. Along the beaches, shark, tarpon, jack and king mackerel are striking slow trolled live baits. For the tarpon and jack, 60 to 80 pound test leaders and a VMC 7/0 circle hook work best. For the kings and sharks you will need to add a short piece of wire to this rig.

What an awesome week we’ve had. Finally a true break in the weather and it looks like more good things to come. Calm winds are on the way finally. Here’s a breakdown of what’s been going on.

Water levels are way down on Garcia as I’m sitting in the water starting my day. Last night’s full moon should get the bluegill to start their spawning. Stick Marsh is fishing greatm, but an early start on the water will be the best opportunity for a fun topwater bite as the Shad are quite active.

Hit the beach on Saturday to see what’s happening in the surf. I’ve had poor luck lately finding sand fleas, so I decided to try the artificial Gulp variety. I wasn’t impressed, and neither were the fish.

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FSFA Club member, Chris Pashos, really got into some fish this week! On Monday he boated a nice a scamp and gag grouper on some slow pitch jigging. Not to one-up the door mat he caught earlier this week. Nice fishing, Chris!

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