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Tampa Bay - South Shore
Capt. Fred Everson
February 26, 2007
Tampa Bay - Saltwater Fishing Report
Early this week I fished Big Pass, just north of the Cockroach Bay entrance channel on a late morning minus low tide. I got off the boat and waded around the sand bar, throwing a soft plastic mullet on a jig head. I had one small redfish follow the bait back to my feet, but that was it. I stayed there about an hour and a half, and then headed north to the flats in front of Sand Key. I poled across the bar looking for fish in the potholes, but there wasn’t much there, either.
Next day I waded the flats south of Apollo Beach with Gabe Krakowski. We found some redfish, but I had the misfortune of hooking a ray in his wingtip just as the fish got into casting range. I almost got hold of the leader, but the ray took off as I reached for it and burned forty yards of drag. I promptly broke it off after that and tied jerk bait onto eight-pound test without a leader. Of course I hooked up immediately but the fish broke me off.
We also saw plenty of big sharks just outside the weed line out in front of Wolf’s Branch. The next day I went back with a chum block, some frozen shrimp, and squid. It took nearly half an hour to get them going, but once they started it was game on. We had three fish on at once, and one of them was in the 10-pound class. That fish took 20 minutes to come to the net.
With only a half-hour of fishing left, I poled the edge of the grass under clear skies and with hardly a breeze. The reds were over bare sand and I could see them before we got into casting distance. We hooked two fish in the next 15 minutes with live shrimp rigged on 3/8-ounce jig heads, and saw dozens more.
For more information, call Capt. Fred Everson at 813 830 8890, or visit his website at tampabayfishingguide.com.
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