With the wind blowing near twenty to twenty five knots out of the north northeast, fishing is tough. If you are a die hard there are some places you can still fish. One of my favorite places is the residential canals that we have all over Tampa Bay. The water should be in early in the morning and by lunch time will be gone and way gone with the high winds. When fishing the docks the higher the water the closer to the shore is where the fish will tend to lay. As the water drops, they will move out to the end of the docks. The fish that you can expect to catch there range from snook, redfish, trout, sheep head, snapper, and grouper. If the wind is to tough for you to get out and catch bait don’t sweat it shrimp are great, as well as artificial, from jigs to hard baits, and hauling out a keeper snook from up under a dock is nothing short of heart stopping.
We fished a charity tournament on Friday, The Trey Curry Foundation Tournament, with Colton Curry, Morgan and Mark Proctor and there were some nice fish caught. I thought, with the wind and the water temp dropping our 30” snook would do great, but we were beat out by a 31 ½” and a 31” snook. So I thought that our 20” trout would be respectable and believe it or not a 26” trout was taken. A lot of people caught a lot of fish for a great cause.
Offshore the kingfish are thick as thieves from the beaches of Anna Maria to the Clearwater hard bottom. There is a tournament this weekend so there will be plenty of boats on the water. If your looking for that one big smoker look inside the bay.
Be sure to catch us on Saturday mornings @ 6:30 and Sunday mornings at 11:00 on The Reel Animals Fishing Show, on WFLA News Channel 8 and call in Sunday’s from 7-9am to 620 AM WDAE The Sports Animal to win some cool fish gear. Until next time do yourself a favor and take a kid fishin’.
