CoronaFish

jethrodull

LookiLooking  for a place to fish with everything shut down and found this on live shrimp. Blackburn Point bridge on incoming tide. 16-18in trout. 

joekat46

Healthy looking trout.  Thanks for posting.

tileman

Well I certainly have time off what better time then to ride and fish nice trout by the way

jethrodull

Caught a couple keeper mango’s, a nice Jack Cravalle, sheepshead and what appeared to be a mutton snapper yesterday. Nice day of fishing. 

Dodger

Inshore?  Nearshore?  Finally getting out Friday.  Would like a starting point.  It's been about 6 weeks for me.  Thanks!

jethrodull

It was inshore at Blackburn Point Bridge. Casey Key. 

Dodger

Thanks!  Can't wait to get out there again!

Cap'n Mark

You are actually pictured on the Dryman Bridge.  Good fishing through out that area.  Great place to wade.  Also the snapper you caught was more than likely a mangrove (gray) snapper rather than a mutton.

jethrodull

Cap'n Mark said:

You are actually pictured on the Dryman Bridge.  Good fishing through out that area.  Great place to wade.  Also the snapper you caught was more than likely a mangrove (gray) snapper rather than a mutton.

I am very confident of identifying mangrove snapper. They are abundant and I catch many of them. It is why I was surprised by this fish. I’m willing to be told it was a lane but it looked exactly like a mutton with the blue lines on its face. Whatever it was it was a fun catch. 

Cap'n Mark

Wasn't trying to start an internet argument. It could have been anything, I have heard of bonefish caught in Sarasota Bay so you never know.It is just that  I have fished that part of the bay for over 55 years and never seen a mutton caught there.  My grandfather fished that same bay (his boat was kept on it) almost every day for many years before me and never told me a story of catching muttons there.  So please do me a favor and if you catch one again please try to snap a pic so that you can document it.  Things do change and I am sure that there are a lot of locals who would like to hear the news.

jethrodull

No argument just trying to narrow it down   My phone was dead otherwise I would have a pic. I go there quite a bit as it is one of a few I can fish with the shutdown. Tight lines!

Dodger

Blue lines under the eyes sounds like a mutton to me!  I was fishing way back up in the ten thousand islands area last year and caught four small muttons mixed in with mangroves and reds.  One was just under legal!  You never know what you will catch down there!  Maybe Irma shifted some things...who knows.

jethrodull

mutton on!! First cast, first shrimp today!!

Dodger

THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!  LOL!

Cap'n Mark

Great to see, a first for me seeing one in that spot.....My grandad would be very happy taht the bay in that area seems to be starting to return to life....

jethrodull

What is this?  Margate grunt?

bluewater00

Majorra or sand bream, decent eats, bigger ones you can fillet

Lostconch

By the scale of it to his toe I could fillet that one
 We eat them when we catch them. I saw a little girl catch one over a ft long at the Punta Gorda Elks kids fishing derby last summer.

Dodger

The little ones are good bait for snook on the beach.  Not as good as pilchards but still good!

jethrodull

Such a variety at Dryman. Thanks guys. 

Tarponator

That's one of the biggest mojarra I've ever seen -- we only usually catch much smaller ones than that in the cast net for snook.  Impressive!

jethrodull

Dryman Bridge the other day. 

jethrodull

Another mutton today. Bigger too!