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Fish Tales
Light winds should make for a nice weekend
By CAPT. TYSON WALLERSTEIN
Article published on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007 |
Up and down winds have been the biggest challenges lately.
Knowing full well that the fish will bite if you could just get the chance to fish for them has got to be one of the most frustrating things. Kingfish are out there and chewing.
Bait is plentiful and those who have had the opportunity to get out and fish for them have done well.
One species that doesn’t seem concerned about the weather is the redfish. Reds have been eager to feed either on those low tides on the outside edge of the flats, or on the higher tides around the oyster bars. Live pilchards fished under a rattle float have been working for redfish, snook and trout.
One place to check out if you’re “boat-less” and want to get into the reds would be the Redington Long Pier. Reds of all sizes are being pulled over the rails out at the pier right now. Pinfish would be the bait of choice although shrimp or cut ladyfish also will work well at times.
It looks like the winds will have an easterly component to them this week, so with any luck the beach should stay clean. With all the baitfish stacked right up along the beach, the Spanish mackerel are taking advantage. Shadowing the mackerel will be the Kingfish.
Plenty of big kings were caught right up along the beach last week. Big baits paid off for anglers trolling live mackerel and blue runners. The key is to stay with the schools of mackerel.
Farther offshore the grouper bite is good in 80- to 110-feet of water. Many good-sized gags are starting to move into these shallower depths with the cooler water.
And if you’re interested in some real shallow water grouper action, the ship’s channel and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge are heating up big time right now. Grouper of all sizes can be caught off the rock piles along the channel’s edge either by trolling or anchoring and dropping down live pinfish.
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 Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007
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