Is Anybody Fishing?

haydenfox!#$

Holy cow it's cold! Anybody been braving these conditions? What's biting?

drgibby

I hear frost bite is biting.
Planning on AJ fishing once the weather moderates a bit............

lukkyracer

If the low temp is less than 50 degrees, no way!

Monello

Waiting for it to warm up a bit and the winds to lay down some.

skyway ande

The bay at Howard Franklin was churning yesterday morning.
It was making me seasick..
I was in the truck!

haydenfox!#$

Went this morning on foot around the Skyway area. Caught flounder, sheepshead and a few short mangrove snapper. There were some boats out there, crazy SOB's :willynilly

SaltySardine

I had a tournament in Jacksonville one morning where it was 34 degrees at the boat ramp at 5:30 when I launched.

I was wearing full snowboard gear and was still absolutely miserable

haydenfox!#$

Went again today in the same area. Caught a few "edible" size black drum, a small red, 1 small trout, 2 keeper sheepshead and a bunch of small mangrove snapper.

Mako224

haydenfox!#$ wrote: »

Went again today in the same area. Caught a few "edible" size black drum, a small red, 1 small trout, 2 keeper sheepshead and a bunch of small mangrove snapper.

Use some chum and those Mangroves will fire up. If there are little ones there are keepers there also.

Gypsies Call

Yesterday a buddy and I hit the holes and oyster bars on the Alafia River - beautiful place... super fishy... anyhow, ended the day with about 20 trout, a half dozen reds, and some dink snook...

and I do mean dink... they were all about 8-12" long... bait of choice was a jig head with shrimp on the bottom...

lukkyracer

Gypsies Call wrote: »

Yesterday a buddy and I hit the holes and oyster bars on the Alafia River - beautiful place... super fishy... anyhow, ended the day with about 20 trout, a half dozen reds, and some dink snook...

and I do mean dink... they were all about 8-12" long... bait of choice was a jig head with shrimp on the bottom...

Nice day catching fish

haydenfox!#$

Gypsies Call wrote: »

Yesterday a buddy and I hit the holes and oyster bars on the Alafia River - beautiful place... super fishy... anyhow, ended the day with about 20 trout, a half dozen reds, and some dink snook...

and I do mean dink... they were all about 8-12" long... bait of choice was a jig head with shrimp on the bottom...

I have to question the validity of this report considering you associate the Alafia with a "beautiful place". :cool:

Kidding. Nice report.

haydenfox!#$

A friend of mine killed it today in the bypass canal and Hillsborough River. Bass were hungry.

Gypsies Call

Well... I did say "dink" and I'm really not kidding... fun on light tackle though...

Lets hope the picture worked...

Gypsies Call

We were using size 4/0 1/8 oz jig heads with large live shrimp. These little snook were ferocious... and we were hoping that there would be a big one laying down in the mud... but wasn't happening... probably too cold and they shut down... may hit Double Branch tomorrow in my kayak...

Kokosing Lover

Gypsies Call wrote: »

We were using size 4/0 1/8 oz jig heads with large live shrimp. These little snook were ferocious... and we were hoping that there would be a big one laying down in the mud... but wasn't happening... probably too cold and they shut down... may hit Double Branch tomorrow in my kayak...

This time of year the deeper holes of double branch will be carpeted in little 12" trout. Nothing big enough to keep, but great for keeping the kids amused. Just keep the hook barbs pinched down because the little ones are suicidal.

BW1199

Did you get out to Double Branch? Been thinking about getting out on the yak, hoping the fish have moved in the creeks after the cold last week.