Norman Havens Loc: Port Charlotte Florida

Sunday I put my boat back in the water after 2 weeks on the trailer.
I was getting her serviced and detailed.
I don't normally fish on the weekends.
But I really needed a day on the water.
This morning I was fishing with 2 friends Bill and CJ.
We launched at the placida ramp. Our first
Spot was fishing the out going tide at Gasprailla pass into the Gulf.
We caught squirrel fish, robbin fish, Lady fish, lizard fish, Spanish mackerel and lane snapper. CJ hooked a spotted Eagle Ray and couldn't stop it.
Our second stop was Bull Bay.
At stop #2 we were greated buy puffer fish
So thick you only got 2 casts with your swim bait before it was ruined.
We moved until we we're on the trout.
And we landed over 50 trout before we were run off our spot by freeloading Dolphin. We added mangrove snapper, Blue Crab and and gag grouper to our species list.
Great day.

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

Norman, you can always catch snook at that house on stilts at the mouth of Bull Bay and some bid snappers in July and August, if you know the back way to Bull Bay from Placida, when you come out just to your left there's a deep channel that is great for Snook and Red's with a falling tide..
Great weather for fishing now 🎣🎣

Wv mike Loc: Parkersburg area. Wv

Great day on the water.

Norman Havens Loc: Port Charlotte Florida

This was my first time fishing Bull Bay.
Came in from the south access by that stilt house..
I haven't been shown the way in from placida want to show me?

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

Norman you got to go in on a high tide the back way but I can be catching fish by the time you go down and come in from the south end, I would love to tell you how to go that way but it is kinda hard to find the entrance from the channel, I see you fish Turtle Bay do you know how to get to Bull Bay from there? I'll try to tell you, when you go under the bridge and pass the old railroad and turn south in the channel look on your left and when you see the first cut though the mangroves head that way when you get even with it there a sand bar on your left side with a oyster bar also on the left just before you get to the cut so make sure you go straight in from the channel once you pass the islands you'll see a bay with Catfish Creek off to your left and if you turn little to the South you'll see a pole that's the marker to go the back way stay on a plane even if you pass a boat because on high tide you only have a couple feet of water at the best you follow through the mangroves just stay in the channel and you'll come out in another Bay that we call Red fish bay, there's a channel on you right check it out some of the best fishing there🎣🎣 watch the boats for a while and you'll see some of them heading south through a cut in the mangrove islands they are going to Bull Bay just follow one of them and you will see the stilt house that you were fishing at, just remember you need at least a half tide to go the back way and don't get off plane 👍 I fish in the back where most boat doesn't go but if you know where the water is flowing in and out of the mangrove islands you can usually catch fish🎣 I fish out of a J16' Carolina skiff with a 25hp 4stroke Yamaha great little boat..
May see ya on the water down there🎣🎣 have a great day and wish you the best of luck 🙏🙏 Chuck

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

Nice report Norman. Thanks

Norman Havens Loc: Port Charlotte Florida

Thanks for the info I normally go slowly on my first few trips .
We went from Bull Bay to Turtle bay Sunday and we we're in water so skinny it didn't show on the fish finder.
I have hit a rock bar at full speed in
unfamiliar water I'm not doing that again.
I live in South Gulf cove so most of my trips start from home. So I'll be coming in from the south Chanel or turtle bay.

Chuckay Loc: Central Florida

I know what you mean, I've been fishing down there since I was just a kid so I have had the good times back in the day when we had grass on all the flats it doesn't even look like the same place, there was little or no fishing guides with the big boats running from spot to spot catching tons of juvenile snook and throwing them back without a care of them just making that big bucks 🥴they're very few of us left that's really cares about the fishing sanctuary that's really sad, maybe I see you down there one day. I to don't fish the weekends anymore way to many people 🙏🙏

NJ219bands Loc: New Jersey

Nice 👍