That included guides Joey Draple, and Cody McClelland, with the latter’s Tuesday party docking with 100 nice specks. LAKE TRAFFORD: Lake Trafford Marina reports crappie still biting in limit numbers for anglers fishing shoreline vegetation on the Immokalee lake. Another, who caught three whopper kitty mitchells (speckled hind) in 400 feet of water, reported blackfins “everywhere.” And yet another crew with a good catch of bottom fish in 180 feet of water put out a Nomad DTX deep-diving lipped plug that produced a 30-pound wahoo, while trolling and prepping the boat for the long run home. One angler who bottom-fished on the 11th and 12th in 110 feet of water reported easy limits of red grouper, nice lane snapper, OK vermilion snapper, decent mangrove snapper, and one 10-pound blackfin tuna.

Mike Westra of Lehr’s also predicts “things are going to go nuts” (starting Thursday, 1/10) for offshore anglers, who were having very good and diverse success before the front. DeAngelis reports expecting a quick return to pre-cold-front conditions that were producing sheepshead and mangrove snapper, juvenile cobia, and juvenile goliath and gag groupers on shrimp-and-jig rigs at the MAY Reef, in 20-foot depths off Big Carlos Pass. Keith Edinger told Lehr’s the sheepshead and snapper bite has been so good on recent nearshore trips out of Redfish Pass, he has had time to return to Pine Island Sound for catches of trout, redfish and small snook.Ĭapt. Boise angler Gerry Palmdale used squid, and a hand from mate Minel Biaz, to catch and release this dandy, but out-of-season gag grouper on his A&B Charters trip out of Naples Port O’ Call Marina.īlue Line Fishing Charters Capt.

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