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Ruff One
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"Homosassa Fishing Report" Nearshore 9/28/2021
Ruff One
Posts: 2,292 Captain
We just arrived back in town, so we were ready to do a little fishing. Crew was just Gary, Gail bailed. Plan was to try some rock piles for cobia, with grouper as the back up. Hit Bonnie up for some pinfish and we were off. Headed out and came upon this " someone had a bad day kinda moment". 
No one around. Circled but no people. Check and boat was anchor, but full of water. From a distance you can hardly see much , be careful it's sitting about 50 to 100 yards due north of marker 4. Found a nice spot in about 16ft, started the chum and we had a pack of 2ft cobia attack the boat. Gary played with them with a plastic eel. They moved on, but no bigger ones showed. Thought about trolling but it's like a hay field. No trolling going to happen in those shallow areas. Water is at 82 degrees and murky. No sign of red tide. Lots of bottom dwellers . Decided to head out and look for some cleaner water and maybe pull a plug. Stop at 20 ft on some nice live bottom. Still looking for that elusive cobia. Set up a chum slick, lose a few pins but no hookup. Mango snappers showed up, so caught 3 around 16in. Perfect size for my fryer. Happy! 
Weeds are sort of disappearing, so I look at Gary and say" get the trolling rods out"! You could troll, but you would grab a weed here and there. We decided to give the troll about and hour. So I pick the best spot I have in the area and hit it hard. I could see the grouper stacked but no hits on the smaller rapalas(20 ft). Change out to the Nomad diver. It will bounce bottom here. I hit em right in the head. Grouper on. Nice 29 iner. 
Gary gets another one and our hour is over. So we head on back to port. Again no sign of the "Tide". Hoping it doesn't make its way north. Enjoy.
No one around. Circled but no people. Check and boat was anchor, but full of water. From a distance you can hardly see much , be careful it's sitting about 50 to 100 yards due north of marker 4. Found a nice spot in about 16ft, started the chum and we had a pack of 2ft cobia attack the boat. Gary played with them with a plastic eel. They moved on, but no bigger ones showed. Thought about trolling but it's like a hay field. No trolling going to happen in those shallow areas. Water is at 82 degrees and murky. No sign of red tide. Lots of bottom dwellers . Decided to head out and look for some cleaner water and maybe pull a plug. Stop at 20 ft on some nice live bottom. Still looking for that elusive cobia. Set up a chum slick, lose a few pins but no hookup. Mango snappers showed up, so caught 3 around 16in. Perfect size for my fryer. Happy! Weeds are sort of disappearing, so I look at Gary and say" get the trolling rods out"! You could troll, but you would grab a weed here and there. We decided to give the troll about and hour. So I pick the best spot I have in the area and hit it hard. I could see the grouper stacked but no hits on the smaller rapalas(20 ft). Change out to the Nomad diver. It will bounce bottom here. I hit em right in the head. Grouper on. Nice 29 iner. Gary gets another one and our hour is over. So we head on back to port. Again no sign of the "Tide". Hoping it doesn't make its way north. Enjoy.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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I was out there on Monday and found that bass boat and called in a report to USCG St Pete as a "hazard to navigation". From a distance all you could see was that old 85 horse Johnson. Nothing left inside, even the depthfinder was gone. As I circled talking with the CG I noticed a hole about 30' away that was 10' deeper than the regular 6' bottom.
I'm going out again Friday from the Barge Canal.... no weeds there!
MY WORST FEAR......THAT WHEN I DIE MY WIFE WILL SELL ALL MY BOATS & FISHING GEAR FOR WHAT I TOLD HER I PAID FOR IT.......
I may not always agree with what you say,
but I will always respect your right to be wrong!
I'll be back Sunday. Got bass to deal with down South. Fry up them snapper !
Another president put a man in the Lady's bathroom.
Somebody may have stripped the boat after that and moved it north of the channel. And maybe put a hole in it.
I should have called the Coast Guard or the Sherrif but I thought of how Mark (Sevenweight) left his boat anchored and rode in on another boat during a storm. So I figured it best to leave the situation be. That was probably not the best decision.