I am on vacation at Ana Maria and want to spend some time fishing off a dock on a canal. What is the best live bait or lure? Is fishing better at high or low tide? Any other suggestions to make this week's fishing memorable?
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by 14MTH30n3
Get some live shrimp, fiddler crabs or sand fleas and fish during a moving tide. Incoming and outgoing are both good; the important thing is moving water. Dead high and dead low are generally just that, dead.
Hit the Rod & Reel pier, too. You can pretty much always pull a few sheepshead out from under it using fiddlers and sand fleas. Might pick up a redfish or black drum, too. Live shrimp will get you hooked up with snook. Good luck keeping them out of the pilings.
Hit the taco joint on Pine Street and get a grouper sandwich from the R&R pier, too. The doughnut place on Pine is killer, too.
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by jswledhed
Nice thanks! Any advice in how to prep fish for grilling?
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by 14MTH30n3
For heavily scaled fish like reds and sheepshead, google redfish on the half shell.
Others just fillet, skin and grill. Or gut, gill, cut a few slashes in the flanks and grill whole.
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by jswledhed
This. I ate lunch today at the rod and reel, people were catching a lot of sheepshead. If you have a vehicle Emerson point is a sweet spot and has a wooden tower thing on it with great views, I catch a lot of trout and flounders out there.
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by Tastes_like_burnin6
Great place where so much water flows in and out of Tampa Bay. All the big fish run along their shores with some large pods of bait in the bay. And yes the NW corner is a hot spot to the Gulf!
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