A cold winter it was, so we can only expect to have a scorching summer. The past several weeks the air temperatures have exceeded 95 degrees and the water temps in the bay aren’t far behind. In some areas, the bay water temperature is averaging 92 degrees. There are a couple of options to beat the heat. Fishing early am to around 10am or before sun-down throughout the night.

Night fishing is a great way to escape the heat and find quality fish. Try fishing the incoming when cooler water is pushed into the bay. One key species that will feed great as the full moon nears is the tasty Mangrove snappers. Find some structure with a good tidal flow and you should find snapper. Shrimp and sardines will produce best. Shrimp will start their migration to the gulf to spawn. This makes for great opportunities to net up shrimp near the coast line using basic tools such as a lantern and dip net. So get out a try doing a little night fishing, it’s a different world. Until next time, tight lines, everyone

I am patiently waiting for spring, I miss those tasty hard hitting little snapper. I also miss the black tip fishing, winter is a nice change because of the heat but man it sucks not being able to target all the species I would like. Although there are the power plants, they do hold some of these species but they are normally quite smaller than the ones we catch out in the bay. I will stop griping now and get to fishing.

Headed out to the Gandy on Friday and me and my girlfreind limited out in about an hour. There where some pretty nice fish in the bunch. We caught well over our limit but released all other fish that were caught.

 

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