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1. Keep Them Wet! Regardless of species, once you’ve netted or attached lip-grips to a fish, keep them in the water as much as possible. This is always true if you need to set up a camera, grab pliers or lay out a measuring board, and it’s especially important in summer months, when release mortality increases due to warmer water. I prefer to use lip grips on bigger catches, since it mitigates the need to untangle a large, fired up fish from a net. Storing commonly used tools nearby is also key, particularly in a kayak where space is limited. Once you’re set up, it’s time for a photo or a measurement!
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2. Holding Techniques If there’s one thing anglers universally love, it’s the “hero shot.” You know, the one where you and maybe your buddy grin widely while posing with a monster catch. I’m a big fan of hero shots, and of taking them properly. Handling the fish safely is key here, and that means keeping hands away from their gills, holding them horizontally and supporting their belly. Never weigh big fish vertically on a scale. This point is often debated in angling circles, and I respect both schools of thought, but I go with horizontal holds because I think the photos come out better. With length and girth measurements, you can figure out a rough weight, anyway. Now, smile big and grab that picture… and no straight-arming!
3. Respect and Revive Properly reviving big catches is important. It ensures continuity of strong genetics, allows a future angler a chance at the same fish, and it simply feels good knowing you’ve encountered an incredible animal and returned it home safely. Face the fish into current, open its mouth, and if possible, pedal or paddle your kayak to get water flowing over their gills. Revival can take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. A fish is ready to go when it raises its dorsal spines and lightly clamps onto your hand, or straight up kicks off and swims away like a rocket. If you don’t already emphasize this process, I encourage you to not only take revival time, but to enjoy it! Thank the fish, watch them swim off and get casting again! Everyone should have a process for catch-and-release fishing. Above all, if you plan on releasing a fish, show it respect and reverence for the experience it has given you. Matt Stone is a teacher from Chester, Conn. and a pro staffer for Old Town and Daiwa as well as a member of the Black Hall Outfitters Fishing Team. Check him out on Instagram @sunrisekayakfishing.
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t wasn’t that long ago when we all thought the only way to get hogfish was to take a plunge with a spear gun. Now-a-days, it’s considered one of the most action-packed trips you can take, albeit a lot of the action is weeding through the plethora of other fish that come to the party.
Despite decades of thinking hook-and-line hogfishing was impossible, they are actually easy to catch. Tackle requirements are very modest; medium spinning tackle is plenty stout. Rigging is simple, too, a knocker rig with a 2-ounce egg sinker and a #4 circle hook is all you need. No swivel is needed to separate the sinker and hook, as you want your bait right on the bottom. Let the sinker slide all the way to the hook. Hog Balls can be deadly as well, but remember when using natural bait a circle hook is a must (it’s the law). Other than that, you’ll need plenty of shrimp, 4 to 5 dozen per person. Hogfish tend to hang out in areas with plenty of grunts, triggerfish and small grouper, which all seem to be much quicker to eat than hogfish. You’ll need to weed through their friends to get to your hogfish dinner. The good news is, all the other fish lead to an action-packed adventure perfect for kids and impatient anglers, alike. Many people use whole shrimp, but I’ve found half shrimp are equally effective and help the bait go further. Finding hogfish is not that difficult either. They like good hard bottom, especially areas with sea fans and nice ledges. You’ll need to start in at least 35 feet, and I’ve had great trips all the way out to 100 feet and deeper. If you don’t already have a few spots in your arsenal, mapping software like Garmin’s Navionics Vision+ can help you find good places to start. You can even use it on a tablet to scout spots from your couch before you go. Once you are there, if the action isn’t almost immediate, move to the next spot. These fish tend to hang out around hungry schools of buddies. The fun really starts once hogfish join the party. They are hard fighters and unlike the others that tend to just pull straight down, hogs will run side to side and are a blast on light tackle. Best of all, hogfish make great table fare and taste similar to snapper, which they are often misclassified as. They are actually a species of wrasse. It is important to be careful handling undersized fish. Hogfish are hermaphrodites. All of them are females until they reach a certain size and maturity when some become males. Since smaller fish are crucial to reproduction, they should be handled gingerly to give them the best chance at survival. Will Schmidt is a seasoned tournament angler who has been writing about fishing from more than two decades. For a great hogfish trip, contact Capt. Troy Leaf at Sureelfishing.com.
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pril is windy and will be the last good month of fishing for many of the winter fish like pompano, mackerel and bluefish, before they move north. Some of these fish, especially bluefish, will remain but in relatively small numbers. Pompano can be caught all month on the beach with orange fish bites and sand fleas. In the Indian River Lagoon, try jigging from the bridges with pompano jigs (chartreuse or hot pink) on moving tides. I’ve also caught random pompano in the lagoon on ¼-ounce jigs with a 4-inch tail (white). Permit have also been caught on the beach on small crabs, fish bites or large sand fleas. Both permit and pompano are usually 50 to 70 yards offshore. The mackerel bite is still good on the beach early in the morning and when bait is present. The early morning bite is in the trough around the close breakers. Small spoons (1-ounce silver crocodile or gold Johnson spoons) with treble hooks seem to work best, but the fish will hit any lure retrieved quickly near the surface. The mackerel are still in the Peck’s Lake area, where you need to fish from a boat. The bluefish bite has been sporadic with fish chasing bait. The bluefish bite has been best in early morning or when bait is present. Some large snook are being caught in deeper water of the St. Lucie River both North and South forks, at the Crossroads and around deep piers and bridges. Large Tomahawk jigs and live or cut bait fished early in the morning, at dusk or at night work the best. There are still some snook on the beach, but rarely. April is a month you can harvest one snook between the 28”- 32” slot. Trout are scattered in the lagoon and can be caught on jigs and topwater lures like a Skitterwalk or Zara Spook on warm afternoons. The best trout areas are north from the power plant to the Vero Beach flats. The flounder bite is still good on small jigs and live bait on the flats and around the bridges. Some redfish have been caught on jigs tipped with live shrimp from the power plant north. It’s best to target mangroves on high tide in the afternoon. As usual, there are scattered schools of ladyfish and jacks cruising the beaches. Some nice jacks in the 5- to10-pound range have been taken on jigs and shallow-running crankbaits. The ladyfish and jack bite has been good when bait is present. Remember, see the birds, find the bait, catch the fish! Richard Matteson is a long-time contributor to Coastal Angler Magazine who is dedicated to Stuart Rod and Reel Club. Contact him at (336) 414-3440.
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’ve lived long enough to come full circle on this one. There was a time when I was younger, that I had every lure known to man. I couldn’t wait to try the latest and greatest new thing and my tackle box was stuffed to the gills with all kinds of goodies in every size and every color. Those days are long gone and, in its place, the need for simplicity. I now tackle a day’s fishing with only a handful of lures. Everything finetuned to this selection and a realistic presentation. I make my choice and become one with that lure. Every bit of prior knowledge and experience tell me how to bring it to life. I focus only on this one thing, bringing life to that lure. It has worked for me many a trip. Know a handful of lures intimately. Have confidence and only bring what’s needed to Nighttime and from a stealthy effectively cover the water column. craft is best for wary snook. A top water, intermediate swimmer, and a bottom player like a jig. Know each offering well and your set. You’ll be better served than having a hundred offerings that you have little experience with and hence a lack of confidence. It makes a huge difference to be confident and persistent. Rather than switching lures every five casts, hunker down and change things up with how and where you present your offering. Slow down — twitch three times then pause. Vary that retrieve. Find the “swim lanes” for feeding fish that change with the tides. Know your quarry, its habitat, and those three lures are all you’ll need. Trust in yourself and it will pay off. I rarely go home skunked, and I absolutely love the challenge of fishing one chosen lure for an entire fishing session until I “crack the nut” and figure it out. Kayak fishing if nothing else, teaches patience and perseverance, as you can only traverse relatively short distances compared to a powered watercraft. Case in point. I do most of my snook fishing either at the dusk to evening transition or during the appropriate evening tidal swings. There’s a different quality to the nighttime. It is the time predator’s rule. I was using my usual “go-to” — my trusted Rapala X-Rap XSR-10 in ghost finish. This is the perfect lure for quick casts to locate feeding fish. I use a simple leader system that consists of tying a three-foot section of Seaguar Inshore 40lb fluorocarbon direct to the lure.
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Pro Tip – many lures are meant to be tied direct using a clinch or loop knot depending on the action desired. Do not use a snap swivel – although convenient, they will become a constant point of failure when a big fish takes your offering. I had just fished what I call “the loop”, a favored group of lights, seawalls, and inlets along the ICW without a bite. Normally, I like to fish swimming the lure with an outgoing tide. I began the reverse trip home to capitalize on changes the new direction would afford. I altered my retrieve as now the lure would be swimming into the current. Same lure different action as the bait now appeared to be struggling in the rips trying to find a hiding place. Even though feeding fish will have their nose into the current, I also know from experience that reversing direction and retrieving your bait like it’s injured, slowly crawling it against the tide and letting it flutter back can trigger a vicious reaction. On this night that proved the case with a 32” slot snook and a twentypound jack that nearly spooled my 2000 Series Penn Reel, and from the same lights that had just produced nothing. The combination of the strengthening water flow and direction change triggered things off nicely. Same lure, same spots just an adjustment to direction and technique. CONTinued on PAGE 9 >>
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aylight savings time is in full effect this month so be sure to take advantage of the extra sunlight we have in the late afternoons! We should have delightful springtime weather; winds will be blowing out of the E/SE majority of the time. Offshore, when we have an easterly wind blowing, the pelagics will be pushed closer to shore looking for bait stacking up along rips/edges. Trolling artificial and dead bait between 175-300’ will produce dolphin, bonito, blackfin tuna and the occasional wahoo. Bonitos and blackfins show up again in our waters this month. When targeting blackfins, you can troll small feathers and daisy chains. TIP: Be sure to set your spread as far away from your boat as possible. Let the line out until you think it’s far enough and then let the line out some more! Blackfins are spooked easily by the roar of your engine, so fish wisely. Blackfins also feed in lowlight conditions and love small live bait. Try chumming with cut sardines to bring these fish to your boat. A lot of cobia should be caught this month as well, primarily in 90-150’ of water. Cobia are hanging around the wrecks and following the sharks. Throw out a chum bag to bring hungry fish to your boat. Drift back dead sardines on a triple hook rig or a cobia jig. If you do get tight on a fish using this method, reel as fast as possible to keep your catch away from the sharks. When fishing the deep water wrecks, jigging will produce big amberjacks, pompano, bonito, and mutton snapper. The bottom fish also love to eat live bait such as pilchards, threadfins, and goggle eyes. Inshore, this is the month to catch yourself a big snook! This time of year, snook will start to invade the bridges and inlets and will eat just about anything thrown at them. At night, fish the bridges with Flair Hawk jigs, large swimbaits or topwater lures. The live bait of choice this month will be mullet and croaker if you can find them. Fish the bridges, inlets, and seawalls at first light or at night during the beginning of the outgoing tide or the last of the incoming tide. Tarpon will be showing up around the Palm Beach Inlet and mangrove areas feeding on crabs and bait Please be sure to check out my YouTube Channel fish. The best bait for targeting the “Darcizzle Offshore” for fishing videos every week! silver king will be live mullet. www.youtube.com/darcizzleOffshore
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Buddy Banana Kibosh By Keith Lozott Contributing Writer Typically, I don’t believe in superstitions, but after a recent fishing trip with my buddy Neil, I may be a believer!!! The morning started slow; I caught a small snapper and small snook. Neil was in skunk mode, so we decided to try a spoil island where I’ve caught some trout, snook, and a gag grouper on a prior trip. To our dismay it was dead as well. Just as we were about to exit stage left, Neil was working a topwater lure back to the boat when what appeared to be a large bull shark came up from the bottom and tried to hammer the lure. Unbelievably it totally missed the lure and disappeared. It was impressive to witness such a big specimen of a fish take a swipe at the lure. After the “Shark Week” experience, we continued to struggle so I decided to implement Plan C and move from the east side of the Indian River to the west side. I’ve had some nice fishing on the west side with trout, reds, and snook. We made our way across the river stopping at another spoil island only to be greeted with a jack attack. I landed several jacks Major League Admission: Adults $10 and Neil hooked one that got off. His skunk was still intact but with jacks around I figured Eating & in the Yesteryear Village at the South Florida Fairgrounds Children 6-12 years $5 that would change. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. 5 and under Free We usedInternational the trolling motor to quietly make our way theFRIENDLIEST mangroves hoping to OF THE YEAR RECOGNIZED AStowards THE KID EVENT of trout, flounder, or any inshore species willing to bite. As we get a glimpseFederation of a red, snook, ***** approached the shore, weEaters noticed another bull shark working the shore and of course I had to Competitive Great Food make a cast two aton him, but he had no interest in my offering. We kept working the shore Asorseen ESPN Live Music and finally it happened for Neil!!! He made a long cast and almost as soon as the lure hit the water, he was*********** on with a nice fish, but we couldn’t see what it was. He started gaining ground FREE Parking Corn Eating getting itAmateur closer; enjoying the fight and then it happened! The fish came unbuttoned and at this point I was All Day Ride Wristbands Contest like dude, what did you do in a previous life to deserve this??? We made our way toward a dock that I know Must be 18 years holds snook. I made a long cast and right then I was hooked up with a huge fish. It was a big snook; I got her Corn Shucking Contests or older to the boat, revived her, and released her to fight another day. Sunshine Sweet Success! I said, “let’s go to lunch and call it a day”. I asked Neil if he was hungry and then he disclosed Farmers, to me that he ate a banana for breakfast! Neil knows not to bring bananas on the boat (it’sCorn bad luck), but it Inc. didn’t occur to him that the curse would remain in effect with it digesting in his stomach. Myth confirmed or was it bad luck? He should’ve brought his lucky rabbit foot!!! Keith Lozott The Fishing Realtor
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pril is one of my favorite months on the water here in South Florida. Summer’s heat hasn’t quite arrived, water temps are in the 70s, there’s a nice breeze, plenty of bait in the water, and usually some pretty good fishing. And not just for us people - many different species are gobbling up smaller fish as they migrate through the area this time of year. One of our most notable seafood connoisseurs is the osprey. We’re lucky to have a healthy and growing local population of this large raptor here in Palm Beach County. Particularly in north county, several spots have active nests that are less than 1,000 feet apart. Successfully nesting so close together can be a sign of good environmental conditions, which is a win for everyone. Osprey start nesting locally in late fall. Unless a nest has been destroyed by a storm or an accident, osprey usually return to the same nest - and the same mate - each year. You’ll often see them flying back and forth rebuilding their nests in November and December, before settling down to lay eggs in January. Once the eggs are on the nest, it’s rare to see a nest that doesn’t have an adult keeping watch. Females handle most of the incubation. But eggs take 30 days or so to hatch, and she still needs to eat during this time. So, males often take over
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keeping the eggs warm, dry, and safe while she flies off to grab a bite to eat. And I do mean grab - osprey eat (and catch) fresh fish almost exclusively. Catfish, mullet, spotted trout, crappie, sunfish among others, from both salt and freshwater environments. Curiously, both adults often catch and eat on their own away from the nest - until hatchlings arrive. At that point, both adults (usually) bring their catches back to the nest to eat and share. The real action starts once the baby birds arrive! Like many bird species, osprey hatchlings grow up fast, stretching their wings within a few weeks of hatching. Most take their first flight on wobbly wings before they’re even two months old. By three months, most fledglings are already 3/4 size versions of their parents. Things get pretty crowded in those nests once the little ones are notso-little anymore! Mom and dad typically provide food for their offspring for the first 3-4 months. After that, youngsters mostly self-feed, gradually getting better at catching their own meals. Even young osprey are pretty good at catching fish, and as they mature, they become exceptional fishers. Young osprey spend their first summer - and often longer - in the vicinity of where they grew up. They’ll hone their skills for a few years and then - with luck - try nesting on their own. Keep an eye out for these beautiful birds and enjoy - hope to see you on the water!
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ne of the other questions that frequently goes along with a firearm purchase is “what else am I going to need with this?”. Which is a good question. Depending upon what you just purchased, there can be a few different scenarios, but not many. One of the most overlooked areas is the maintenance of your firearm. These are mechanical devices which like any mechanical device, it needs to be maintained. Look at your vehicle for example. It needs oil changes, fluids, tires, brakes, and so on. Firearms will not need as much maintenance as your vehicle, but you will need a few items. The most important will be a good cleaning kit with ALL the accessories. Not the cheap “Walmart” version, but one with everything. Brushes, rods, cleaner, cleaning patches, small tools, wipe cloths, the more the better. A really good kit will run 45 to 100 dollars. You just spent hundreds of dollars on your firearm, take care of it, and it will last forever. You will also want to pick up eye and ear protection for when you go to the range - make sure you use it. Sure, they rent safety glasses and muffs, but do you really want to use what someone else just had on? I don’t! Next, storage boxes or lockers. Most firearms of course are sold in factory boxes but let’s be realistic, you need a good storage case. Whether it’s a hard or a soft case, get the upgrade. If you have minors in the house, then by Florida law it needs to be locked up so they can’t get unauthorized use of it. Last, but not least…Ammo, Ammo, AMMO!!! The more the better, keep a little stockpile of it. You never know. These are just a few ideas, but they are just as important as the firearm itself. Take a lesson if you need to and be safe with it. Make sure anyone of proper age in your household also knows how to use it and respect it.
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Author with a beautiful slot snook that fell for the venerable Rapala X-Rap in ghost finish. My go-to lure!
Pro Tip – when fishing a lure against the current I prefer to bring it cross-current vs directly parallel. This prevents the lure coming from directly behind a holding fish which will usually cause it to spook. If the fish are lure shy, scale down your offering. I’m not saying having a multitude of offerings doesn’t have merit — of course it does, and a well-stocked tackle box has its place. But there’s absolute magic to knowing and fishing just a handful of lures presented well. You’ll be a better angler for it. Mark Ambert / Author – Avid outdoorsman, sportswriter, and photographer. Follow me on Instagram @marksgonefishing or contact me at marksgonefishing25@gmail.com Gear Used: Coastal Fishing Company. Enthusiast Series Rods created by anglers for anglers. https://www.coastalfishing.com/ Rapala https://www.rapala.com/
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Inshore Spring is in full swing. Glass minnows will be the bait to match the hatch this month. Artificial baits like D.O.A. C.A.L. Shad Tails, Jerk Baits, and TerrorEyz will work well around the mangroves, docks, and bridges. Try fishing dock lights and bridges around Lake Boca at night for some snook action. Make sure to wear a head lamp and have a 360-degree light on your kayak. Pompano are still around in our northern areas like Jupiter Inlet and Saint Lucie Inlet. Goofy Jigs, D.O.A. Shrimp, and sand fleas are great options to work around the channel edges.
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Offshore April will start to bring bigger pushes of blackfin tuna to the area. Vertical jigging 200-350 feet will produce 5-10 pounders on average. Don’t overlook trolling plugs like Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnows to pick up a few tuna as well. Dania Beach and Pompano Pier are great places to launch the kayak to reach these depths. These launches allow you to reach the fishing grounds within 1-2 miles offshore. Sailfish, mahi, kings, and wahoo are also on the menu this time
of year. Slow trolling goggle eyes and blue runners will give you the best shot at a hook up. Finally, don’t forget about the cobia. Bouncing the reef with a sardine tipped bucktail or a D.O.A. Swimming Mullet will put you in line for one of these tasty fish. Check us out at Pushin’ Water Kayak Charters on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube for all the latest adventures my clients and I get into. See you on the water!
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ello anglers! I hope you all have been catching a lot of fish lately. This month, I have not been fishing much due to schoolwork and my father being busy with boat shows and work. I decided that instead of fishing, I would help clean up the beach. The Green Club at my school, Oxbridge Academy, organized a beach cleanup at Phipps Ocean Park, and I wanted to give back to the ocean instead of just taking from it. I woke up early, grabbed a few friends of mine and headed over to the beach. Phipps Park has always been a clean beach compared to some others in the area, so we were not overwhelmed with garbage. However, there was a fair amount on the beach this day. We walked from the dunes to the waterline where all the seaweed was. Surprisingly, most of the trash was near the dunes. We found many bottles, caps, fishing line, and other sorts of waste. Our group collected about 6 buckets of waste just that morning. While we were walking near the water, we saw many types of wildlife such as clams and jellyfish. It was quite different than what we normally do, however it was fun to walk along the beach knowing you are helping the environment. Overall, it was a fun time and I highly recommend everyone try it out and volunteer at your nearest beach cleanup. Also, if you are just walking the beach, Oxbridge Academy has sponsored collection buckets at the entrance of Phipps Park as well as other beaches, so you can help make a difference any time!
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With two bonito on Shooting Star are Gloria Montoya: Miami, Barbara Ryan: Ft. Lauderdale, Jessica Montanaro: Pompano Beach, Amy Carrasquillo: Parkland, and Nancy Rudick: Ft. Lauderdale.
Aboard Big Game from Fishing Headquarters, Bonnie Cronenberg: Pompano Beach, caught a 6 lb. king mackerel and Doris Schukin: Wilton Manors, caught a 9 lb. king mackerel.
On Big Game from Fishing Headquarters, ladies caught five bonito, a 15 lb. blackfin tuna and two king mackerel 6 and 9 lbs. Linda Magill: Pompano Beach, Jackie George: Pompano Beach, Linda Kelly: Hollywood, Bonnie Cronenberg: Pompano Beach, Betty Bauman: Ft. Lauderdale, Doris Schukin: Wilton Manors.
Linda Kelly: Hollywood, caught a 15 lb. blackfin tuna on Big Game from Fishing Headquarters.
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appy Easter! The inshore fishing throughout Palm Beach County offers exciting rod bending action for anglers. The snook fishing is fantastic this time of year! Target docks, sea walls, and mangrove shorelines. Sunrise provides great action with a Topwater Rapala Skitter Walk. Once the sun rises over head switch to a D.O.A. C.A.L. 3-inch Shad in glow/gold rush belly or a D.O.A. 5-inch Swim Bait in Arkansas glow. The sea walls and grass flats are great areas to find snook laid up ambushing bait schools. The tarpon will be roaming our local waters, Team work on the black drum. sunrise and sunset are the best times to target them. D.O.A. Bait Busters in mullet pattern and D.O.A. TerrorEyz get the silver kings excited. Live baiting for tarpon creates strikes; slow troll baits along mangrove shorelines and drop offs for consistent action. When searching for tarpon, look for rolling fish and target deeper holes and channels for best results. The tarpon this time of year typically range in size from 5 to 80 pounds. Anglers looking for steady rod bending action should target the jacks along seawalls and grass flats. The jacks school together ambushing schools of live bait in their vicinity. Rapala Skitter Walks, X-Raps, and D.O.A. C.A.L. 3-inch Paddle Tail in glow and gold rush belly work great for the jacks. If artificial lures are not your choice; live mullet, greenies, and sand perch will also produce action, freeline them with tide or near any structure. Well, that is the fishing report for April, I hope you all enjoyed. Get out there and wet a line. Tight Lines! Capt. Craig Korczynski
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armer weather has led up to great fishing on Lake Okeechobee, as stable weather patterns usher in some of the better catching of the year. Bass anglers are finding that catching large numbers of bass to be tougher this year than it has been in quite some time. The artificially highwater levels maintained by the Corps of Engineers is allowing the bass to access the deepest part of the marsh areas where anglers can no longer penetrate due to extreme weed growth. The bite can be a hit or miss affair, one day the fish will be stacked up in an area and eating a spinnerbait or chatter bait and the next day the area will seem devoid of fish. The tried-and-true Senko in a black and blue color or a watermelon/red color will always produce fish, it is just a little slower presentation than most people can stand. Working through an area thoroughly before moving on is much more productive to run and gun-style fishing on Okeechobee. Guided shiner trips are producing 25 to 40 fish per morning with big bass in the mix almost daily. Look for the best bass fishing for numbers and big bass around three to four days prior to and after a full or new moon phase. Many anglers visit Okeechobee each year around this time to target the hard fighting and very tasty panfish she produces. Shellcrackers are primarily caught near or on the bottom, although the water they are in may only be 2 feet deep. The canal edges and the shallow water marsh areas are key spots to find large areas of spawning beds, which appear as light spots on the normally dark bottom. We have found beds over the years which were very small, and other years we have found beds that were 30 to 40 feet wide. The primary bait for shellcrackers is either a red worm or a
Fishing Forecast by Capt. Nate Shellen Shane Buffin and his dad Rick fished with me for these beauties. One weighing in at 8 lbs 2oz and another just under 8 lbs.
grass shrimp fished very near the bottom. Bluegills can be coaxed to rise up and strike a popping bug or small floating fly, but most are caught on grass shrimp, crickets, or red worms under a small bobber. It is that time of year that many are out fishing for speck (crappie) out on Lake Okeechobee with great success. It has been quite a few years since so many large specks have been found in the grassy areas that form the littoral zone of the lake. Kissimmee grass is found surrounding the outside edges of the lake on the north end of the lake and is a prime spot to target and find large, speckled perch when they move in shallow water to spawn. When Kissimmee grass and other native grasses can be found adjacent to one another fishing can go to catching very quickly. Anglers targeting the fish are using small jigs on a very thin line. Capt. Nate Shellen The weather is Shellen Guide Service perfect, and the fishing (863) 357-0892 is top notch for fishing sjmike7@aol.com out on Lake O this time www.OkeechobeeBassFishing.com of year!
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deeper story. First off, mahi are extremely important to recreational fisheries off south Florida and the Keys, and Florida recreational landings have fallen dramatically, according to FWC data. In the 1990s, the recreational fishery experienced several peaks between 20 and 30 million pounds per year. Since 2010, the highest year for landings came in at about 15 million pounds in 2015. Between 2016 and 2020, that number never topped 10 million pounds, and in 2020 it slipped below 5 million. Those are pretty scary numbers with an abrupt downward swing for a species that is short-lived, fast growing and should repopulate quickly. The kicker is, no one really knows the status of Atlantic dolphin stocks because they are highly migratory and distributed from New England to the Caribbean coast of South America. International harvest is an unknown factor. Dolphin are very sensitive to water temperatures, and warming oceans are offered as a potential explanation for Florida anglers seeing fewer dolphin. Meanwhile, recreational dolphin trips and anecdotal reports of success are increasing off the Mid-Atlantic and New England. The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, which manages federal waters of the Atlantic off the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, reduced the recreational dolphin limit from 60 to 54 fish per vessel in June 2021. Florida advocated strongly for deeper cuts as a precaution; however, North Carolina is apparently reveling in its improving mahi fishery and would only agree to the 54 fish per vessel reduction. Part of Florida’s push is proactive management for the fishery, which would include increased international engagement to get a better idea of what is actually going on. This year’s dramatic cut in recreational limits for state waters might, however, be little more than a gesture. Over the last decade, about 90 percent of the recreational catch off Florida has come from federal waters. There aren’t many anglers catching mahi in state waters, but it’s worth noting that Florida anglers and charter operations have shown ample support for these cuts. Perhaps the fishery will see self-imposed restrictions on the part of anglers in federal waters. If you’re wondering why no one is screaming about commercial anglers in this issue, it’s because commercial harvest in U.S. waters of the Atlantic has made up only about 5 percent of landings over the last 30 years.
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Then there are tools we possess as humans such as good eyesight (good binoculars) and judgement. If you see a noticeable water color change, birds and/or fish feeding on the surface, weed lines and floating objects, chances are, you’ve found the correct general area. A lot of these floating objects will hold bait and fish, especially wahoo and dolphin. After narrowing down an area where the fish will likely be in due to temperature, depth, structure etc., this is when I prefer to high-speed troll. High-speed trolling is another tool to locate the fish, and not a tool to use all day! This is true for wahoo, especially. Once you get a bite, mark that location on the chart. Now it’s time to go back to that area and go to work on ’em. By this time of day, the sun is up pretty good, and the surface bite might slow down a little bit. Like I’ve always said, the fish don’t have Maui Jim’s shades, so they use depth to get the correct amount of light they want. They look up to see bait at, or near the surface like flyers, tinker, cigs and sardines. They also look down for the squid down deep. This is the reason the planer rod is typically the one that produces in the middle of the day. When the sun is high in the sky, it’s time to go deep with your baits. You can’t always catch them where you want to. You have to catch them where they are... down deep. Visit barefootcatsandtackle.com, and look for “featured video” or Coastal Angler Magazine to see the videos related to this article.
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