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Todays Date: 05/11/2008 Fishing Report Title: Redfish at night, sailors' delight - Pensacola, FL. State & Type of Report: Florida Saltwater Reports City You Fished In: Pensacola Fishing Report By: Capt. John Rivers
Charter Name: Mega-Bite Inshore Charters Business Phone: 850-341-9816 Email: Email the angler or Capt. Website: http://www.megabiteinshore.com
Date of Report: 2008-05-11 Type of Fishing: Inshore, Bay, Pass & Neashore, Redfish, Trout, Kings etc.. Fishing Report: It’s early May and it feels like the latter part of March, what with the winds blowing like they have been. Like I’ve stated in my previous reports, when the wind isn’t too bad, and we’ve gone out, the fishing has been very good. Fishing in the ICW has been pretty good from daylight to around 9am for Specks. I’ve been tossing out a 4” Top Dog Mirror Lure for my top-water applications, and when the fish seem to tire of that, I’ve gone to my trusty Exude Dart or Exude RT slug. I’ve been experimenting with a few different lures and colors, and while I’m still throwing the Golden Bream, I’ve also been using the Shrimp fantail in solid white glow, and it’s been producing some nice fish when used under a popping cork. While fishing for specks, I’ve also been picking up some nice Skipjacks (Ladyfish) and a few Bluefish mixed in.
I’ve been working a few docks near some of the flats in the ICW, and have hooked up some nice slot redfish. My baits of choice have been a live shrimp with a #4 live bait Gamakatsu hook, a Berkley Gulp 3 –4” Shrimp on a ¼ oz jig head, or a weighted Gamakatsu hook. During my night trips, we have been going after the reds that are running near the 3-mile bridge. This has been some great fishing, and we’ve not only hooked up the reds, but also some white trout, specks, and even some nice keeper mangrove snapper.
The surf has been a little rough just off the beaches, but at the beginning of the week I was able to get out, and it was
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Todays Date: 05/11/2008 Fishing Report Title: inshore/nearshore report NE Florida State & Type of Report: Florida Saltwater Reports City You Fished In: Fishing Report By:
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Date of Report: 2008-05-08 Type of Fishing: Fishing Report: Inshore/nearshore report Jacksonville area waters
The water has warmed to 70-72 degrees now and fishing has picked up.All we need is for the wind to give us a break. Lots of jacks have moved in so the blues,which are still here, finally have some competition for your expensive baits. Large ladyfish and spanish mackerel are fairly common catches, too. I'm catching smaller spanish trolling and the larger ones on live bait when targeting other species such as trout. All these fish are great fly rod fish.
Speaking of trout, I've heard of an 11 and 10 pounder being caught recently, on lures and bait, respectively, They are hitting topwater and diving lures, as well as the always reliable live shrimp. Two to four pounders are common using the sliding float rig. If you catch a big one,which is most certainly a female, consider releasing it after a photo as your contribution to future fishing generations.
Redfish are around, though with all the tournaments and every day fishing pressure we have here in northeast Florida, it is sometimes difficult to find any. With the right bait you can usually hook a few at the jetty tips, weather permitting.
Black drum are an occasional catch also, along with pompano and flounder. Keep your eyes open for triple tails, also. You just might stumble on to one hovering next to some floating object such as a crab trap float, etc.
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Todays Date: 05/11/2008 Fishing Report Title: Cabo Bite Report State & Type of Report: Mexico Fishing Reports City You Fished In: Cabo San Lucas Fishing Report By: George Landrum
Charter Name: Fly Hooker Sportfishing Business Phone: 206-658-5152 US# In Email: Email the angler or Capt. Website: http://www.flyhooker.com
Date of Report: 2008-05-05 Type of Fishing: Deep Sea Fishing Report:
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
Cabo Fish Report
April 28-May 4, 2008
WEATHER: We had just another week in paradise with our daytime highs varying between 90-95 early in the week and 85-90 later in the week. Our nighttime lows varied as well with 75 early in the week and 65 later in the week. That nighttime low of 75 on Monday and Tuesday night forced us to turn on the air conditioner! We had partly cloudy skies all week long with winds at 10-15 knots from the northwest with occasional higher gusts.
WATER: There was little change in the surface conditions from last week. The Pacific side of the Cape had swells at 3-5 feet and the Cortez side had 1-3 foot swells. The water temperature on the Cortez side was a pretty even 74-76 degrees from the shore out to around 12 miles, then it became 67-69 degrees for another 12-20miles, then there was a pretty strong break where it warmed right back up. On the Pacific side the temperature remained around 66-69 degrees. On the Pacific side from the Golden Gate and across the San Jaime Bank and toward the beach the water was a fairly dirty green, the closer to shore you got the dirtier it got. This plume of cool, green water extended to the south of the Cape keeping the water outside the 1,000-fathom line that dirty green.
BAIT: There was plenty of bait this week as
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Todays Date: 05/11/2008 Fishing Report Title: Win some... Lose some! State & Type of Report: Florida Fishing Reports City You Fished In: Miami Fishing Report By: Capt. Jim Barlett
Charter Name: Beast Fishing Charters Business Phone: 305-233-9996 Email: Email the angler or Capt. Website: http://www.beastcharters.com
Date of Report: 2008-05-03 Type of Fishing: Offshore Fishing Report: This spring season is off the hook. I took Denis Quill and his son David out for a ¾ day trip. They came here on holiday, from Ireland, and wanted to catch some fish. We loaded up on bait as best we could and then bee-lined it to the Grunt & Sweat wreck. The first drop of the day was a nice legal Gag Grouper.
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Then the real fun began as they struggle on 10 drops and managed to pull only one Amberjack off the wreck. We left there with the Jacks winning by a score of 9-1. After that we tried for a few Permit but they had the Quill’s number also and he lost the only one that hooked up. We finished our day putting 2 nice Pinkies (Mutton) in the box.
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Steve, Chris, and Steve Jr. had a great trip with us and Devon and I enjoyed ourselves equally as well. We had a full day of laughs and fish. The trip started off with them telling us that Steve Jr. had caught a 98# AJ and Jacks weren’t on the list. OK! Bait is becoming a bit of a struggle but we managed to get enough for the entire day. First order of the day was to try for a Mutton or two. We arrived to find 2 other boats drifting the same wreck. No big deal, find a spot, put her in neutral, and drop! Seemed to work fine… for us! We boated a Mutton, an African Pompano, 2 Barracuda, and a Bonito head.
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Todays Date: 05/11/2008 Fishing Report Title: Florida - South Indian River Fishing Report State & Type of Report: Florida Saltwater Reports City You Fished In: Fort Pierce/Vero Beach/Jensen Beach Fishing Report By: Captain Charlie Conner
Charter Name: Captain Charlie's Fish Tales Charters Business Phone: 772-284-3852 Email: Email the angler or Capt. Website: http://www.fishtalescharter.com
Date of Report: 2008-05-02 Type of Fishing: Light tackle fishing on the flats of the Indian River... Fishing Report: May 2, 2008
INSHORE:
May continues to be a transition month here on the Treasure Coast. Weekly weather fronts moving across the state and water temperatures working their way towards the mid to high 70's signal that spring has arrived and summer is just around a short corner. You can see more baitfish entering the river and the activity on the flats will increase during May. Fishing this week was up and down and the windy conditions dictated on where you might fish on any given day.
I fished with some great people this week and we sure enjoyed the Indian River. Tom Hull (the Lazy Spirits Fishing Team) was down to visit and enjoy some fishing and relaxing on the river. Jay Smith and his girlfriend, Melissa, was also down and enjoyed a sunny outing on the river. The latest front slowed down the fishing mid-week, but the bite had started to pick back up by Thursday.
Trout have been hitting soft plastics, like DOA CAL jerk baits in pearl and rootbeer colors. Live shrimp and pinfish will also entice some trout into biting, like Melissa proved this week. Harbor Branch and Queen's Cove have been the best spots to target lately. The snook bite has begun to move to the flats. Brennan Smith reported catching a number of snook south of Fort Pierce along the mangroves and Bob Bergen reported similar results to the north of Fort Pierce the latter part of the week. Live bait, top water and soft plastics were the best
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Todays Date: 05/11/2008 Fishing Report Title: Kona Hawaii fishing report - April wrap-up State & Type of Report: Hawaii Fishing Reports City You Fished In: Fishing Report By: Capt. Jeff Rogers
Charter Name: Business Phone: Email: Email the angler or Capt. Website: http://FISHinKONA.com
Date of Report: 2008-04-29 Type of Fishing: Fishing Report: Kona Hawaii fishing report – April wrap-up .
I did last month’s wrap-up a day before the end of the month and in last month’s report, the big news was Kona’s first “Grander” of the year. The very next day after that report, last day of the month, another “Grander” was caught. It was an awesome battle! I know because I was the captain on the boat! It’s a huge milestone for any captain to bag a grander and most Kona captains never attain the goal. A lot has to go right in order to get one. It really is a combination of skill and luck. We came close to loosing her a couple of times and then, once we had her subdued, we almost became a sad “almost a grander” story. Three Oceanic white tip sharks attacked the marlin as we were trying to pull her in the boat. They took about 150 lbs. of meat off of her in about 1 minute but even with that, she still weighed in at 1056 lbs. There’s more about the trip at FISHinKONA.com on the “Hall of Fame” page and for only about a week more, on the “Fish Photo’s Page”. The angler also wrote about the trip in the “Guest Book”. A note for you fish huggers out there, I release almost all my marlins and I don’t feel bad at all for killing this fish. If I ever get another grander, I’ll kill that one too. Any blue under 1000 lbs. is free to go. I keep small striped marlin to eat. Any big ones are free to go. It’s most likely that because I target a wider variety of fish than any other captain in Kona and, I let most everything go, that
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