SW FL-Bonita Beach: Big Sheepshead are Back! Grouper, Snapper, Hogfish too
The good information is that the weekend’s wind direction assisted push the red tide out to sea. And, the backwaters, at minimum the spots I fished on Monday, 12/5, held no trace of red tide, and the fishing was excellent. I fished with extended-time customers Erwin and Mille Metusiak. Employing live shrimp, we caught a complete of seventeen redfish Monday morning, to 21 inches. The few held a few of individuals, alongside with two keeper, fifteen-inch sheepshead. They introduced crevalle jacks and a 24-inch snook.
Tuesday, there was a short term calming of the seas offshore, and Mike Connealy, along with his father-in-law, Dick Elston and Mikes newlywed daughter and son-in-regulation, Paige and Shaun Stevens, took advantage of situations to head into the gulf. We fished with live shrimp in forty three ft, out of New Pass, exactly where we observed no substantial red tide outcomes. We caught a smorgasbord of fish, such as 20 gag grouper to 21 ½ inches, which we launched, along with fifteen red grouper, all in the sixteen-to17-inch range. We also caught a keeper mangrove snapper, and introduced about twenty mang-shorts. The group caught 20-5 keeper-sized whitebone porgies to 14 inches, and introduced all but 10 of those. They also caught a few of sheepshead, a single of which was a keeper at 15 inches, along with a keeper hogfish at 14 inches, a keeper porkfish, and many huge grunts. We produced a half dozen triggerfish shorts, along with yellowtail shorts and several Atlantic barbs (a croaker-form fish.) We produced two scamp groupers that ended up just ½ inch short of authorized, at 15 ½ inches.
Friday, twelve/9, I fished Estero Bay with Dave Karrey, Steve Below, Desi Parent and Barry Saltzman. We used live shrimp to catch four keeper sheepshead to 17 one/2 inches, a keeper whiting, and a keeper redfish at 18 1/2 inches. The group released two shorter reds, two snook to twenty inches, crevalle jacks and a half dozen ladyfish.
Monday early morning, twelve/12, I fished in Estero Bay with Roy and Chris Mittman and Todd and Lynda Cohen. Fishing with live shrimp, the group caught fifteen sheepshead to 16 inches, and stored two of the 4 keeper-sized kinds. They also caught a 17-inch pompano, and produced a fifteen-inch black drum and an remarkable, 8-pound crevalle jack.
A few days of tough seas intervened prior to I received out again, which was on Saturday morning, 12/17, with Bud Glanzer, son-in-regulation, Chris, and close friends Alan Bronson and Dennis McGuire. Fishing with shrimp in forty three feet, out of New Move, we caught a wonderful hogfish measuring 17 inches, a keeper triggerfish at 14 ½ inches, five keeper mangrove snapper to 14 inches, 20-five whitebone porgies, and a mess of large grunts. The group introduced eight smaller sized triggerfish, five smaller sized mangs, fifteen of the porgies, and twenty of the grunts. They held the rest for a family supper. They also introduced plenty of gag grouper to 20 inches and red grouper to 18 inches.
The photograph demonstrated is of angler, Alan Bronson, with a 17-inch hogfish, caught on shrimp in forty three feet, on an offshore journey this past weekend.
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