The three-day Labor Day weekend is approaching. The weather should be fine. And we have the Florida State University football game, which does not start until the end of a day of fishing. It looks like the perfect storm for fishermen.
On the shore, the seated tourists were found moving towards the shallow water. As the water cooled, the fish moved out of the colder deep water for most of August, avoiding the record high temperatures we experienced. The best time to capture them is in the morning and evening of the day with cool water and tides.
Throughout the summer, Red Fish’s actions have been very good and should last at least a few months. In the past week, many, many slit and super slit fish have been caught from around the oyster enclosure and from the school being formed.
Flounders are the favorite of anglers. They like to eat what they catch. They have been hovering around rocks and shipwrecks. Sometimes in shallow water, they are easy targets for fools. They are also anglers who slowly bounce bait along the bottom. The goal.
Other light game fish have appeared throughout the summer, such as Jack crevalle and ladyfish, which should give you some disturbing blows.
At sea, the big news is that the red snapper is back in the peak season after a long weekend. Anglers should grab the limit of their two fish effortlessly. Also at the bottom are groupers, but check the regulations to make sure you are fishing for them in legal waters. The gag cannot remain in certain areas.
Light fishing anglers fishing offshore can expect to get some Spanish mackerel, blue fish, mackerel and even a few cobia.
If you prefer to fish in fresh water, you can expect to forage for bass on the water surface in the morning and evening. As the sun rises, the fish becomes deeper. Then it’s time to switch from top water bait to soft plastic in Texas or Carolina style. The live light should make you sink all day long.
Snapper is everyone’s fish, and has begun to pave the way for lakes and rivers. Look for a clean circular area on the bottom of the sand.
For details on bait, bait and techniques for catching all the above items, please refer to this week’s fishing report.
The recreational red snapper season in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico will reopen from September 5th to 7th for the Labor Day weekend, and will continue to open on Saturdays and Sundays in September and October, with the last day of harvest being 11 Month 1 (Sunday).
At a meeting in Tallahassee on April 16, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved a 70-day recreational red snapper season in Gulf State waters. The 2015 season started on the Saturday before Memorial Day (May 23) and lasted until July 12. The reopening of the red snapper season during the Labor Day weekend and the weekends of September and October will provide more fishing opportunities for anglers in the fall.
Red snapper is a popular species and has a significant economic impact on many coastal communities in Florida. The waters of the Gulf States range from the coast to 9 nautical miles. Federal waters extend from state waters to approximately 200 nautical miles.
Anglers aiming for red snapper from private boats (excluding Monroe County) need to sign up for the Gulf Reef Fish Survey before fishing. Register at a local retail store, gas station or tax collector’s office; call 1-888-FISHFLORIDA (347-4356); or visit License.MyFWC.com online.
For more information on Gulf Red Snapper, please visit MyFWC.com/Fishing and click on “Saltwater”, “Entertainment Regulations” and “Bay Snapper”. Learn more about the Gulf Reef Fish Survey, including how to register, by visiting MyFWC.com/Fishing and clicking on “Saltwater”, “Entertainment Regulations” and “Bay Reef Fish Survey”.
As the hunting season is approaching, it is time for some hunter safety training, which is a compulsory course or review course. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering free hunter safety Internet completion courses in Wakula County. The course is conducted in the Otter Creek Range at 65 Crawfordville Qualify Lane, Wawulla County Sheriff’s Department. The teaching time is September 12, 8 am to 3 pm Eastern Standard Time.
FWC provides the same free hunter safe Internet completion course in Liberty County. The course was held at Woodgate World Camp, Woodgate, 22459 Northeast of World Road, Horsford. Classes are held from 8 am to 3 pm Eastern Time on September 12th.
Students must complete the Internet course before the class and bring a copy of the final report from the online portion of the course. The final report form does not need to be notarized.
Adults must always accompany children under 16 years of age. Students should carry pencil and paper with them to make notes.
Anyone born on or after June 1, 1975 must pass an approved hunter safety course and have a hunting permit to hunt alone (unattended). The FWC course meets the training requirements for hunter safety in all other states and Canadian provinces.
Those interested in taking this course can register online at MyFWC.com/HunterSafety and get information about future hunter safety courses, or they can call Hunter Safety Coordinator Will Burnett at the FWC Regional Office in Panama City at 850 -265-3676.
The fifth annual Taylor County Fall Trout Championship is Saturday, September 19, from safety light to 3:30 pm, and the registration fee is $30 per person. Weigh in Keaton Beach and Steinhatchee. The captain’s meeting was held at Big Bend Properties in Keaton Beach on Friday, September 18. The 5 heaviest fish trout stringers are $1000. The second place is $500; the third place is $300. Big Trout won $300. Big Red Fish wins $300. Lucky Dog won $100. Fishing for an hour costs 20 dollars. Additional features. For more information, please call 850-843-0566 or Captain Ashley Mock or the Taylor County Chamber of Commerce 850-584-5366.
Captain Russ Knapp (info@sgislandjourneys.com 850 927 3259) on the trip to St. George’s Island sent the following report: “Col. Clint Taylor said the first wave of cold waves is moving. In the next week or so, look for travel The first is the wreckage from (tuna, fish, sailfish). These wrecks have been pressing on AJ and gag grouper.” Taylor suggested that the large bait caught in the middle level is used for a fish, while the grouper is caught at the bottom. . Taylor said: “It’s open to red snappers in state waters this weekend, so go out. The reef and shipwreck should be really good. If you can, use live bait.” Knapp wanted to be in the bay at the mouth of the estuary. In search of red fish. Trout and flounder on oyster rod. “Live bait or Gulp!s are always effective. If you go out sooner or later, trying the top water can be a lot of fun.”
Captain Dave Lear of Tallahassee said: “In the past weekend, carmine and mottled brown were the main colors, centered on redfish and flounder. Red is the difference between Skitterwalks and others. The noisy top water plug works most closely together. Because weed fish are aggressive in the tides of the full moon, they also produce weed-free spoons. The flounder is happy to cover the shrimp bait that gradually jumps from the bottom.” Lille Said: “There are many signs that fall is about to die. The grass in the yard is not growing so fast. Yellow butterflies fly around. As the days get shorter and shorter, the temperature starts to slow down. The fish’s weight begins to increase. Adapt to the lean meat in the next few months, thereby increasing the feeding activity.” Lear said: “The holiday weekend will have a high tide (high tide) at dawn on Friday, and the water flow will decrease in the next few days. In the case of half a month, The midday low will not be so severe. Biting should still be no matter what
Lille said: “There have been some reports of trout returning to shallow waters, which is another good sign. The scarcity of most speckled trout has attracted the attention of offshore anglers on the Big Bend. Labor Day weekend will also be an event. Good time. It’s a good time to take the last scallop trip before the season closes. A limited amount of double valves is still being collected south of the Rock Garden and Grey Mare (Rock), and the meat per shell is also very large, which is very late Typical summer.”
Otto Hough of Myhometownfishing.com (otto@myhometownfishing.com) said: “In the past weekend, anglers who ventured before or after the Saturday flood found red and flounder in the descending tide. A large number of high-quality mangrove sea breams. Fish and sheep’s heads are also eaten with live shrimp products in some of the deeper holes around the oyster bar.”
Hoff is optimistic about the upcoming weekend. “Labor Day weekend should see the beginning of our upcoming fall bite. When the climax occurs before sunrise on Saturday, there should be some delicate red swimming over the skinny dams and rock piles. Use those top water plugs. (Skitterwalks, an early knocker, super ghosts, and top dogs that start to ebb as early as midnight should make some outstanding moves.” He said that the same actions should continue when the tide is low in the afternoon. “These sticks Lollipops, such as Golden-winged Redfin Tuna and Bomber Dragon A, teetered on the red fodder on the St. Marks and Okila Rivers at high tide, and they ate fish schools in the rising tide. The meal lasted about an hour or so. In the fall.” Hof said that throughout the weekend, there will be water at high tide in the afternoon, and that’s the situation.
Hough brought some good news to trout fishermen. “Slowly, the bite of the trout began to become alive. Those tidal (finger) fish moved around many oyster rods with the tide and started to attract the attention of the trout. When you see those fish working on the rods When heavy, those top water jams and lollipops in the water at the edge of the bar. There will be some high-quality trout starting to hang (along) the bar to ambush the hope fish, and hope to attract you, there are also soft 5 to 6- Like a saltwater assassin, Z-Man or Gulp! An inch bastard can also play a role, in addition, putting one or two pinfish in it under the action of Cajun Thunder or Equalizer will stimulate one or two trouts. ”
Hoff said the flatfish have also moved in. “The flounder is starting to cut deep, accumulating around the creek hole and rock pile halo. Slowly shake Gulp! or Z-Man shrimp, which looks like a pearl or a glowing color scheme, will attract people’s attention. A penny or two, there is never anything Good thing, because these small minfish are also very convenient. There are more and more sheep’s heads in these areas, which have become victims of live shrimp products. In addition, the mangrove sea bream also has a lot of harvest, which has been roaming in the bar cuts and creeks. .”
Capt Randy Peart of Tallahassee (850 421-8049 captpeart@yahoo.com) said: “Fishing is a bit slow, but some nice reds appear on Ecofina. There is a golden spoon on the bottom. With shrimp, it works best. For trout, try water that is 8-10 feet deep.” Pilt said he also encountered some flounders while fishing for trout. “Try to use a 1/4 to 1/2 ounce clamp head and a 3 inch Gulp! The shrimp are both painted in white.”
Pat McGriff, the captain of another actor guidance service (www.onemorecast.net (850) 584-9145), has good news. “Trout fishing must have resumed, as the great reconnaissance tour leader Dave Malone and I demonstrated on Sunday, August 30. When we started our adventure, the water temperature in the open bay dropped to 82 degrees. Perfectly colored water (between ice tea and coffee). In 2.5-3 feet deep water, we had expected to see more bait fish on the surface, well, it didn’t show up after visual observation of the surface Too much, I am ready. When we both moved on the third pinfish, I said: “:, he missed it”, because I saw a big vortex under the thunder and lightning in Back Bay, I gave it The old “Shake and Bake” and go down. It turned out to be a 25-inch trout, and I quickly let go. Dave’s next actor went on strike immediately after it fell into the water, when he hooked the hook , He grunted “good guy” and landed a 24-inch trout., he also posted. I said: “OK, we need to leave this position. “When you are looking for a future charter, you don’t need to catch it, but a couple, and then leave there.
“Well, our next attraction is a zipper, three short trouts made of four, and there is very little bait activity on the surface. We proceed to a hump with 3.5-4.5 feet of water on top, when I put When the boat was slow, the 6-7 feet of water started our rafting. The big thing pounced on them with three plops. After three baits, we had two breeders, and then grabbed two shorts (once We rose to a height of less than 3.5 feet), so I moved back to the edge of the hump, and we used 5 baits to catch 4 other breeders, including 21-inch trout. Then Dave grumbled again, Said: “This is a good person. “Sure enough, I caught a 24-inch trout, so once the bite was heard, we reached the limit in 45 minutes. On Sunday, the tide was low at 9:10 am and the high at 3:14 pm. We were early in the morning. The big fish was caught around 10:00, and then we reached the limit from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Oh yes, did I mention that we never encountered any breeze during the whole trip? The sky calmed down, but the trout was biting. I want to say that we finally turned the corner in the hot and cruel summer.
“This weekend, you should fish along the tide as much as possible and expect to take a bite two hours before the low tide in the morning. Then go back for lunch and then go out to experience the upcoming tide. The afternoon is the key to the current (tide) Please use smaller grouper fish. Our trout will not kill 4-inch bait; they must be smaller. Leaders that are inches long. Well, Dave is 32 inches long.”
Richard McDavid (352-498-3008) of Sea Hag Marina in Steinhatchee said that anglers fishing on the shore have caught a lot of red fish, and some are infested. As the water cools, trout fishing should get better.
In deeper water, the fishing of grouper and snapper impressed both anglers and spear fishermen alike. Groupers seem to be everywhere, a common 15-pound fish. There are also many pigs and mangrove snappers. The angler caught some mackerel near the water. If you feel the need to do some “monster fishing”, there are plenty of sharks everywhere. The stalker has been dug out by a bucket. Entered one limit after another. They are all big.
Cliff “JR” Mundinger, team leader of the Talquin Lake Trophy Guide Service (talquinguide@yahoo.com www.fishtallahassee.com), said that bass fishing is usually slow. However, you can actually see some educational activities. “Mundinger said: “The water temperature finally dropped at the low point in the 1980s, and the bass came out of the water, feeding on the schools fish. The same size bass is also good. Many bass are in the range of 4 to 6 pounds. The problem is that they came to Mundinger and said: “In the deeper creeks on the weekend, near the river, look for this kind of action. The sleepwalking fishermen have a good time on the weekend. With the full moon, you can easily watch To the bed. On any sandy shore, pinnacle or pier lining. The Cri at the end of the a pole is the most effective. For those who prefer challenges, this is a good time to loosen the fly pole.”
Eli Reeves (850) 893-9940 on Lake Mykoskie (Reeves Fish Camp) and campground at 16000 Reeves Landing Road in Tallahassee said that this weekend should be great for panfish anglers. “The spots are still biting on the minfish, the fly (flying object) has been using fixtures and alive, and Warmouth (bass) has begun to lay the ground and suck the bloodworms.” The water stabilized and cooled slightly. If you don’t have a boat and want to fill the cool fish with fish, this is the place to go. There are many bank passages here: Spotted Animals Flyers Flyers Jigrik on the bed Good Warmouth (bloodworm)
Post time: Jan-07-2021
