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• hook_em Posts: 329 Deckhand

  December 2021 #2

  Great job!
  
  We didn't get out near as much as I wanted, but it was the first successful winter for gags I've had since I moved here.  Thanks for the tips!
  
  

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• clarosa Posts: 993 Officer

  December 2021 #3

  hook_em said:

  Great job!
  
  We didn't get out near as much as I wanted, but it was the first successful winter for gags I've had since I moved here.  Thanks for the tips!
  
  

  Good to hear man! Love to see/hear success stories!

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• bigfinn35 Posts: 1,234 Officer

  December 2021 #4

  Awesome stuff man. Wishing we had the kind of nearshore bottom y'all do up there down in Venice/Sarasota, most of my available days for offshore trips were on days with weather too rough to make a run long enough to get to where I heard the gags had been. Ah well, always next year.

  Paddle faster, I hear banjo music.

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• clarosa Posts: 993 Officer

  December 2021 #5

  bigfinn35 said:

  Awesome stuff man. Wishing we had the kind of nearshore bottom y'all do up there down in Venice/Sarasota, most of my available days for offshore trips were on days with weather too rough to make a run long enough to get to where I heard the gags had been. Ah well, always next year.

  How did the red tide affect the ledges out there in 45-70'? I used to fish out of englewood around june for a couple weeks and found some good Gag spots but it was before red tide decimated that area...twice. We def have a hell of a fishery up here, but the secret is out. Every time I go out now seems to be more and more boats, and a lot that will come right up to you on our spot. Luckily I try to make sure I find a few more spots every time I head out because a lot of our spots have gotten confiscated by weekend warriors haha.

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• bigfinn35 Posts: 1,234 Officer

  December 2021 edited December 2021 #6

  clarosa said:

  bigfinn35 said:

  Awesome stuff man. Wishing we had the kind of nearshore bottom y'all do up there down in Venice/Sarasota, most of my available days for offshore trips were on days with weather too rough to make a run long enough to get to where I heard the gags had been. Ah well, always next year.

  How did the red tide affect the ledges out there in 45-70'? I used to fish out of englewood around june for a couple weeks and found some good Gag spots but it was before red tide decimated that area...twice. We def have a hell of a fishery up here, but the secret is out. Every time I go out now seems to be more and more boats, and a lot that will come right up to you on our spot. Luckily I try to make sure I find a few more spots every time I head out because a lot of our spots have gotten confiscated by weekend warriors haha.

  Southern areas of Sarasota county weren't hit as badly as Tampa Bay or northern Sarasota Bay, but still pretty rough. I mostly fish offshore out of Venice inlet with the occasional trip out of Stump or Big Pass, back in May-July I had to run out ~15 miles to get out of the brown water. Not as much floating fish or stink in the air as I experienced further north, but most of my bottom spots inside of 70' are still significantly worse than they were last year. Zero legal RG this year off of a cluster of live bottom and ledges in 70' that's usually my most reliable winter/spring producer (though still plenty of shorts plus other fish). Got a few short gags fishing some canyons in 50' back in the early summer before anything got too far south, but the fishery from Englewood north definitely seems markedly worse in that depth range. 
  
  Take it with a grain of salt though. I'm mostly a weekend warrior when it comes to offshore stuff, most of my fishing these days is a few hours of wading after work.

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• clarosa Posts: 993 Officer

  December 2021 #7

  bigfinn35 said:

  clarosa said:

  bigfinn35 said:

  Awesome stuff man. Wishing we had the kind of nearshore bottom y'all do up there down in Venice/Sarasota, most of my available days for offshore trips were on days with weather too rough to make a run long enough to get to where I heard the gags had been. Ah well, always next year.

  How did the red tide affect the ledges out there in 45-70'? I used to fish out of englewood around june for a couple weeks and found some good Gag spots but it was before red tide decimated that area...twice. We def have a hell of a fishery up here, but the secret is out. Every time I go out now seems to be more and more boats, and a lot that will come right up to you on our spot. Luckily I try to make sure I find a few more spots every time I head out because a lot of our spots have gotten confiscated by weekend warriors haha.

  Southern areas of Sarasota county weren't hit as badly as Tampa Bay or northern Sarasota Bay, but still pretty rough. I mostly fish offshore out of Venice inlet with the occasional trip out of Stump or Big Pass, back in May-July I had to run out ~15 miles to get out of the brown water. Not as much floating fish or stink in the air as I experienced further north, but most of my bottom spots inside of 70' are still significantly worse than they were last year. Zero legal RG this year off of a cluster of live bottom and ledges in 70' that's usually my most reliable winter/spring producer (though still plenty of shorts plus other fish). Got a few short gags fishing some canyons in 50' back in the early summer before anything got too far south, but the fishery from Englewood north definitely seems markedly worse in that depth range. 
  
  Take it with a grain of salt though. I'm mostly a weekend warrior when it comes to offshore stuff, most of my fishing these days is a few hours of wading after work.

  That is terrible to hear!! Lets hope it heals back up. I didn't fish it much but was a nice fishery, especially the inshore snook and redfish there in Stump pass.

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• Kokosing Lover Posts: 1,183 Officer

  January 2022 #8

  Do I see a big fat flounder in one of those box shots?

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• Reel-Lucky Posts: 3,500 Moderator

  January 2022 #9

  Good eye, Will, sure looks like it.

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• clarosa Posts: 993 Officer

  January 2022 #10

  Kokosing Lover said:

  Do I see a big fat flounder in one of those box shots?

  Yes there sure was something floundering around in that box haha

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• releasegear Posts: 944 Officer

  January 2022 #11

  nice work Chris! 
  

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• clarosa Posts: 993 Officer

  January 2022 #12

  releasegear said:

  nice work Chris! 
  

  Back atcha Mike! Love your reports! Happy New year!

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