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Fish Tales
With all these fish, who could ask for more?
By CAPT. TYSON WALLERSTEIN
Article published on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
Light easterly winds in the morning have made for some phenomenal Spanish mackerel fishing off the beach lately.
Schools of bait are stacked up all along our coastline and are attracting large schools of mackerel.
Anglers trolling small spoons with a 2-ounce cigar lead are finding it easy to catch their limit well before the afternoon sea breeze picks up.
The beachside snook bite has steadily gotten better after the last full moon.
Anglers wading along the sandbars around Shell, Caladesi and Honeymoon islands are having a blast sight fishing schools of milling snook. Savvy beach snook anglers will tell you that the best way to fool these fish is with live pilchards or shrimp. Walk with a bait bucket in tow and throw a couple of freebie pilchards for chum, to get the school fired up.
Redfish have taken the back seat lately with the great tarpon and snook fishing that we’ve been having, but the truth is that there are a lot of large schools working the flats right now. Tarpon Key, Fort DeSoto, Caladesi and Anclote Islands are all good spots. Work the mullet schools on the outer edges of the flats on the morning incoming tide with spoons and top-water plugs. Once the tide is in, the reds will be found cruising under the mangroves, chumming with live and dead pilchards will get the reds fired up.
As long as the tarpon are here I’m still going to write about them. Plenty of fish can still be found on the beach right now, but they are heading north and moving fast. These fish are hungry and will definitely eat if you can get a bait in front of them. The trick is to get well ahead of these fish and use an electric trolling motor to make adjustments. There are plenty of schools of pumpkin seeds in 8- to 14-feet of water and they have been my best bait lately.
Until next week – GET BENT!
Tyson Wallerstein can be reached at capt.tyson@hotmail.com. If you have a fish picture you would like to see published in the newspaper, send it with your name and where it was caught, to: “Fish Tales,” Tampa Bay Newspapers, 9911 Seminole Blvd., Seminole, FL 33772, or e-mail it to editorial@TBNweekly.com.
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Article published on Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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