The past few weeks have produced some seriously good offshore fishing in our area! With a couple of big offshore tournaments ( Gulfcoast Offshore & Sarasota Slam) we have had good numbers of pelagics being reported. A 432lb as well as a 223lb swordfish caught, big warsaw grouper, American red snappers, Cubera snappers, blackfin tuna, big mangrove and yellowtail snappers also. There have been a few reports of gag grouper although they are not in season and kingfish around the 30 mi mark. Big cobia and permit are currently being reported in the nearshore wrecks. There have been multiple reports of 9-10lb mangrove snapper in that depth, caught using light leader and either whitebait or shrimp. There are still a few tarpon around, we had an insanely good bite directly following the last storm. A good amount of pompano are being mentioned near the passes this week, although water temps are very high in the bay, theyre a bit cooler in the pass and out off of the beach. I would still focus on early morning bite or afternoon/ evenings to beat the heat and capitalize on a better bite. Inshore trout bite has dwindled off a bit but the redfish in the bay have been fired up this week!! There have been some smaller snook and juvenile tarpon reported in the south bay/ vamo area earlier this week which should continue on into next. Fall is shaping up nicely for those redfish with some bulls already being caught in the bay!!
Tight Lines!!!