We're are the fish in Choctawhatchee Bay FL.
Keep going out in choctawhatchee Bay an coming back empty handed. Launch at Washington point boat ramp. Off 395 an hwy 98. In Santa Rosa Beach FL. Zipcode 32459
The fish are in SCHOOL, that's WHERE.
BD
Most of the time they are in the water 💦
Unless caught then where ever you put them
D Tong wrote:
Most of the time they are in the water 💦
Unless caught then where ever you put them
Quit being smart alec, The water is to hot, fish in early mornings.
Fish against the mangroves with moving water.
Find bird's diving on bait and boiling fish cast a shiny spoon or a white or silver soft plastic in the boil and you will get bit.
When the water is this warm the fish don't want to work hard to get a meal.
Iast week I fished a creek mouth with fresh cut lady fish and couldn't keep the catfish off the line. Just a sinker and a Hook for rigging.
Follow the birds. They and the fish follow the bait fish. There are no McPearch Burger stands on the Water. Use natural bait and local baits. Look for thermalclines with your electronics. Local tide charts and find the weed lines. Vegitation light and shadow.
Fish early morning at the mangroves. Open a small can of tuna in oil and dump it in keep the can. Use a gold or silver spoon tip one hook on the treble hook with a triangle fish bite piece shrimp flavor in electric chicken or pink, and hold on to your rod..
Corkynewman......Please explain what you mean "gold or silver spoon tip one hook on the treble hook. " I don't understand how those combine.
I use a gold or silver gator spoon 1/4 oz. It comes with a treble hook on it, it has 3 points. I tip one point with a small fish bites..thats a cheesecloth shrimp smell to entice a bite.
Ave
Loc: Okaloosa County FL
Find grass find fish. Warm water look for holes & channels. Overcast days are best for warm season trout. Red & Black drum are easy on shrimp of fiddlers on a ball jig. Lip a 3" choafer on light carolina rig for them. Hit structure with fiddlers for Sheepshead. Haunt the rock jetties at the pass in the cold months into Spring for Sheepshead. For flounder drag 3" paddletails around sand pockets in the grass. Color depends on light & water clarity. White & chartreuse are always getting wet from my bag. A boat or kayak are your best bet to cover more water. Pompano! Hit the beach with a flee rake. I like a 1 - 1/0 Owner ssw Carolina with ½ oz egg weight. Use the smaller ¾" flees or 2½ shrimp for Pomps in the surf. Key word here is surf. Sling it as far out as you can but grit your teeth when you rig gets within 40 feet of the beach.
Pomps are here all year. Water movement is key to all species. But one thing holds true, if there are no signs of feeding activity or visible movement, then you'll have to earn your dinner. Fish ain't free & neither is knowledge. Buy good tackle & take care of it. Light tackle is too heavy. Go light with 8 lb power-pro. If you are in trout water & you will be then you need to cack your drag down & don't set your hook. If you don't and you do, then you will lose and wound every trout that hit. Hope this helps. That's 30 years of learning wrapped up in one long rant. Tight lines & broken rods
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