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re:Kings gulfside; flounder, sheepies, reds, jacks bayside: Bon
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Monday, I fished with Lee Larsen, Bud Glancer, and friend Mary, about 5 miles out of New Pass. We used live shrimp, and chummed with some pre-mixed chum, as well as some blue runners. We caught four king mackerel to 30 inches, and had two big ones pull off the line on their rapid run back to toward the boat. We also caught a keeper tripletail, keeper sheepshead, porkfish and grunts, and released s

Wind & seas tough this week: Bonita Beach, SW FL
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This week brought all the winds and high seas that we were lucky to have missed for most of last month. In addition to the rough seas offshore, there were dead low tides in Estero Bay. I cancelled all my trips through Wednesday.

On Thursday, Dan Mackinnon and a friend wanted to take their sons out fishing, so we gave it a try, with four youngsters on board, at the reefs off Bonita Beach. It was

Redfish, sheepshead, kingfish, goliath: Bonita Beach, SW FL
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I fished Estero Bay with C.B. Fisher, his seven year old daughter, Cayla, and Cayla's grandfather, Frank Graves on Monday. Shrimp were in short supply in the morning, so I cast for silver jinnies and ballyhoo, and we began at the oyster bars, where we caught a bluefish, and released some small fish. Once shrimp came in, we picked up some of those, and fished toward Wiggins Pass, where we caught tw

Bonita Beach, SW FL: kings, Spanish, reds, sheepies
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Monday, fishing in 30 feet out of New Pass, with Bob Pumford and Steve & Lorie Seibert, we caught three king mackerel, all 28-29 inches, keeper Spanish mackerel to 22 inches, mangrove snapper and triggerfish. We had a goliath eat a bait on a light tackle pole, so we just got to wat

Bonita Beach, SW FL Gulf & Bay Report
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I fished Estero Bay with Terry Major and friends Monday. Fishing the points on the west side of the bay, behind the Hyatt, we released one snook and nine mangrove snapper, all caught on live shrimp.

Wednesday, I again fished Estero Bay, along the tree lines. Michael Scipione and Christina Rodriguez caught and released a four pound cravalle jack, a 13 inch black drum, and mangrove snapper, usin

Bonita Beach, SW FL: Spanish, Yellowtail, Lanes & Mangs
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I fished Monday in 35 feet out of New Pass with father and son Dan and Eric Harper. Using live shrimp, we caught keeper Spanish mackerel, a nice yellowtail snapper, keeper triggerfish, grunts and porkfish.

Daniel McAuliffe fished with me Tuesday morning at MAY Reef. We were chased in by a brief lightening storm about 11AM, but we caught plenty of fish before then. We caught ten keeper lane snap

Bonita Beach,SW FL:redfish, trout, snapper, jack,gag bayside
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Monday, I fished the west wall of Estero Bay with brothers Tom and Kevin Connolly. We used shiners to catch three redfish, two of which were keepers, and an 18 inch trout. We released a 21 inch gag grouper and a cravalle jack.

After a couple of rainy, windy days, I fished Estero Bay again on Thursday, with Sally Faust and friends, Todd and Brenda. We used live shrimp to catch and release two re

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Yellowtail, Goliaths, King, Redfish
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Monday, I fished with live shrimp in 40 feet, 19 miles out of New Pass, with Ernie and Tim Moffet. We caught four keeper yellowtail snapper, and released three smaller ones. We also caught porgies, triggerfish, mangrove snapper, a small hogfish, a flounder, and lots of gag shorts, which were fun to catch and release. We used a blue runner to catch and release a 50 pound goliath grouper.

Charles

SW FL-Bonita Beach:A bonefish in the bay???
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I fished Estero Bay Wednesday with Frank Tota, Frank Witt, and friends, Joe and Jim. Strange as it might sound, we caught and released a seventeen inch bonefish. I have never seen, much less caught, a bonefish in this area, and I believed them to be a Keys/Caribbean fish. We caught this one on a live shrimp, on an oyster bar in the middle of the bay. Using shrimp, we also caught two keeper sheepsh

SW FL-Bonita Beach:Gulf & Bay Report
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After a few weeks hiatus, I fished Estero Bay Friday with Steve Ross and father-in-law, Jack. We caught some live shiners, and used those for bait, along with live shrimp. We fished toward Wiggins pass, along tree lines and oyster bars, and released small black drum, mangrove snapper, whiting and sheepshead.

Saturday, fishing in 45 feet out of New Pass, on a catch and release trip with Chris Va

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Spanish & snapper
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I fished with live shrimp and cut-bait in 35 feet out of New Pass Tuesday with Mike Sokol, wife Ann, and the Sokol children, Michelle, Michael, Phillip and Brian. We caught Spanish mackerel, mangrove snapper, triggerfish, grunts, and released lots of blue runners. The kids had three big fish run away, and those were likely bigger mackerel or small sharks. It has been pretty slow here lately, with

SW FL-Bonita Beach: 41 inch kingfish, shark, bonito, snapper
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Fishing in 45 feet out of New Pass Monday with the Patrick Smith party, we used live shrimp and shiners to catch keeper mangrove snapper and Spanish mackerel to 28 inches. We released a small hogfish, triggerfish, and gouper shorts, along with a 24 inch bonito and a four foot nurse shark.

Wednesday, fishing with me in 35 feet out of New Pass, using live shrimp, Don Hudson, daughter Ciarra, and

SW FL-Bonita Beach:African pompano, mutton, lanes, mangs, Sp
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I headed out about 65 miles with Gregg Bedell on his boat Monday, to fish the Stoney Point wreck. We used squid, sardines, and shiners, and it was a pretty exciting day out there. We caught a fifteen pound African pompano, a seven pound mutton snapper, and a two foot rainbow runner. We kept a dozen vermillion snapper, and six lane snapper, releasing numerous others. When the mutton snapper hit our

SW FL-Bonita Beach:Spanish, snapper, shark
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I fished Monday with John Maliszewski and friend, Joe, in 30 feet out of New Pass. We used live shrimp and dead shiners, free-lining for Spanish mackerel, and we caught thirty keeper sized, but released all but six. We also released small mangrove snapper, small kingfish, and a 3 ½ foot lemon shark.

Fishing with Wayne Mares and friends Tuesday, in 35 feet out of New Pass, we caught ten keeper m

SW FL-Bonita Beach:Redfish, mackerel, lane snapper
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Virginia Stafford, her sister Carol, and her grandsons Mac and William, fished Monday with me in Estero Bay, toward Wiggins Pass. We used live shrimp to catch a 20 inch redfish and keeper sheepshead and sand bream. We released a cravalle jack.

Friday, Kevin Bordwell and son, Ben, fished with me in 35 feet out of New Pass, where we caught a mess of Spanish mackerel to 24 inches, keeping a half d

SW FL-BonitaBeach-permit to 26 lbs,28 lb.cobia,shark,pompano
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Roger Meir and fifteen year old son, Phillip, from Switzerland, fished with me Monday at the reefs off Bonita Beach. We used live shrimp to catch Spanish mackerel to 26 inches, along with keeper mangrove and lane snapper.

Tuesday, in 36 feet out of New Pass with John, Matthew and Timmy Duritsh, Ryan Gabbard, and Ben Smalley, we caught a nice variety of fish, including twenty keeper mangrove sna

SWFL-Bonita Beach: bay & near-shore report
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I fished Wednesday in 30 feet out of New Pass, around the reefs, with Joe Soboloski and his three sons. We used live shrimp to catch keeper mangrove snapper, lane snapper, and Spanish mackerel. We released the mackerel, along with triggerfish, gag grouper shorts, and ladyfish. The boys kept the snapper for dinner.

Robert Duhlberg and his eight year old son, Daniel, fished the east side of Ester

SWFL-Bonita Beach-nearshore: nice Spanish & snapper
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Uli and Uta Scheider fished with me Monday, in 40 feet out of New Pass, with live shrimp. We caught keeper Spanish mackerel to 25 inches, and keeper yellowtail snapper. We released some yellowtail and mangrove shorts, along with porkfish and lots of blue runners.

Dave Schultz and friend, Jack, fished a catch and release trip with me on Wednesday, which was good for Spanish mackerel to 28 inches

SWFL-Bonita Beach: cobia, Spanish, snapper; reds, sheepshead
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I fished with brothers Vinny and Bernie Avallone and families, over live bottom, in 40 feet out of New Pass on Monday. We had live shrimp and cut bait, but the fish were only interested in the shrimp. We caught keeper Spanish mackerel, along with twenty-three keeper snapper—mangroves and lanes—and triggerfish to 13 inches.

Tuesday, Jerry Shafran and I fished the tree lines in Estero Bay, along

SWFL-Bonita Beach: Goliaths & mangs
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After a pretty soggy Labor Day weekend, I headed offshore Tuesday with Larry Kavulich and friend, Bruce. There was still plenty of rain around, but we managed to skirt most of it, and seas were tolerable at about 3 foot. We used live shrimp and cut pinfish for bait, along with some blue runners for goliath bait, fishing in 40 feet out of New Pass. We released one goliath grouper that was just shy

SWFL-BonitaBeach: 'cuda-bitten bonito, goliath, shark, Spani
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Monday, I fished Estero Bay with Bob Green and Ben Edgell. We started out fishing tree lines and oyster bars on a higher tide, and released a 17 inch redfish, small sheepshead, and snapper. We spotted baby tarpon, but they weren’t biting. When the tide got low, we headed out the channel toward Wiggins Pass, and fished with live shrimp, wherever it was deep enough. We caught a keeper redfish at 19

SWFL-Bonita Beach: Spanish & snapper
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After a couple of slow weeks, I finally got back offshore fishing on Saturday, with Scott Fandrich, brother Shon Fandrich, and friends Bill Fisher, Lonnie Stuber, and Mark Tullin. We fished with live shrimp, about 20 miles out of New Pass, and caught a good variety of fish, including keeper mangrove

SW FL-Bonita Beach-yellotail, lanes, shark, Spanish, sheepsh
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Terry Mooney and friends fished with me Wednesday, in about 40 feet out of New Pass, using live shrimp. We caught five nice yellowtail snapper, four keeper lane snapper, several 25 inch Spanish mackerel, and some whitebone and jolthead porgies. We released everything except the snapper.

Friday, I had a good morning offshore with Brian Wilson, Bob Twiss, Mike Twiss, and Dan True. We headed out o

SW FL- Bonita Beach:snapper bite hot, shark, Spanish
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I headed offshore Thursday with Chuck and Sheila Peterson and teenage sons, C.J. and Andy. We fished with live shrimp in about 40 feet out of New Pass. We caught keeper mangrove snapper to 13 inches, lane snapper to 12 inches, Spanish mackerel to 20 inches, along with triggerfish, porkfish and porgies. We released red grouper shorts. The Petersons will be back in March, and hoping for some king ma

Sw FL-Bonita Beach: hogfish, yellowtail, scamp
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I fished offshore Monday, just ahead of the weather front that was approaching our area. Seas were still fairly calm, at 2-3 feet, but the front line was encroaching, and predictions were for seas to build rapidly Monday afternoon, with 6-8 foot expected late Monday and into Tuesday. Rita Grant and friends headed out to about 40 feet with me, where we caught two keeper hogfish, a few keeper mangro

Sw FL-Bonita Beach: snapper, goliaths, red grouper, Spanish,
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Winds and seas got in the way of a few fishing excursions the week before last, but I managed to get offshore once. I took Wendy Woodall and Bob Baker on a combined sight-seeing and catch-and-release fishing trip lat1 Thursday. At the reefs off Bonita beach, we released triggerfish, mangrove snapper and a couple of small goliath groupers, all on live shrimp.

The winds blew hard all weekend, an

SW FL-Bonita Beach: 4 snapper caught on one eel!
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More winds, seas, and rain came our way this week, with rough conditions offshore most of the week, and some pretty low tides in Estero Bay. I finally got one of my postponed offshore trips out on Saturday Even then, the predicted 2-3 foot seas were actually 3-5 foot seas most of the day. I fished with father and son anglers James and Jonathan Ozark, in 35 feet out of New Pass. We caught lots of S

SW FL- Bonita Beach: redfish, sheepshead, snapper, trout
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Monday brought cold temperatures and high seas. My anglers bundled up and we fished the bay, since the 8-12 foot seas expected through mid week will keep everyone close to shore. Bill and Nancy Stephens fished with me on an incoming tide in Estero Bay, along the channel toward Wiggins Pass. Using live shrimp, we caught a keeper sheepshead, five keeper mangrove snapper, and almost had a nice trout

SW FL-Bonita Beach: flounder,reds,sheepies,triggers,goliath
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I fished on a very windy Monday, 12/4, in Estero Bay with John Hull and his dad, Bob. We fished several holes with live shrimp, and did pretty well with hook-ups and variety. We caught a keeper flounder, keeper pompano, three sand bream, two keeper redfish to 20 inches, and keeper sheepshead. We released short reds and ladyfish.

Art and Donna Johnson, Tom Satchall, and Tom’s mother, Mary Satcha

Sw FL-Bonita Beach: 175 lb. goliath, gag, hogfish, snapper,
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After a blustery weekend, that caused me to cancel my offshore trips, I headed to the artificial reefs on Monday with John Maliszewski and friends, Phil, Russ, and Irv. Seas were decreased to 2-3 feet most of the day, although there was still a pretty stiff wind blowing. We caught keeper mangrove snapper and a half dozen nice triggerfish, and released short gag and red grouper.

Fishing Tuesday

SW FL-Bonita beach: more hogs & sheep, snapper
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First, this is a fishing forum--although banking and finance posts are an improvement over porn, none of those topics belong here--These guys need to find a forum that suits their topics, and stop clogging this one with spam.

Monday, I fished a catch and release trip with the Snyder family—Dave and Rhonda, son Ryan, and daughter Lenay. We headed out with live shrimp to about 19 miles out of New

SW FL-Bonita Beach: nice snapper, a hog, Spanish,
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Written by Captain Dave Hanson

After some family time to bring in the new year, I headed offshore again on Tuesday, Fishing with brothers Mark and Tony Kapala in 35 feet out of New Pass with live shrimp, we encountered some four foot seas early in the day, but they calmed to two to three’s after a while. We caught seven keeper mangrove snapper to 15 12 inches, keeper sheepshead, Spanish mackerel to 22 inches, and whitebone porg

SW FL-Bonita Beach: bigger mangs, hog, amber jack,
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Written by Captain Dave Hanson

Saturday, 1/6, I fished in 38 feet out of New Pass with Dean Stanton and son, Dean, Jr. The bite was kind of slow, but we caught some keeper (14 inch) mangrove snapper, Spanish mackerel, porgies and triggerfish. We released grouper shorts to 18 inches. The water temperature was 74.5, which is pretty warm for this time of year. Usually, the water is colder this time of year, and brings the larger s

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Keeper Gag Grouper to 26inches
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Written by Captain Dave Hanson

Sure enough, as predicted, the four foot seas were calming over the course of the day Monday to two foot. I fished about 28 miles out of New Pass with Andy Ungar, Al Layton, and friends Jim and John. We used mostly live shrimp, along with some squid and cut bait. We caught keeper mangrove and lane snapper, Spanish mackerel and triggerfish, and released a couple of sharpnose sharks.

Tuesday was

Bonita Beach, SW FL: Sheepshead bay & Gulf, reds,
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Written by Captain Dave Hanson

Saturday morning, 1/20, when I headed offshore with Chris & Yvette Worthington, their young sons Hunter and Peyton, and Yvette’s parents, there were rough seas offshore that had not yet calmed to the two foot predicted. We stayed in close for a while in about 30 feet, and caught some keeper mangrove snapper. When seas calmed and the snapper bite slowed near shore, we headed out to about 50 fee

SW FL-Bonita Beach:26 inch gag grouper, 17 inch sn
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Written by Captain Dave Hanson

Monday, 1/29, another cold front that passed through the area kicked up seas offshore to 6-8 feet, and I had to cancel my offshore trip. By Tuesday, seas were calmer, although there was still a 3-4 foot swell out there early, when I headed out to 40 feet with Bill Story, Bernie Didoro, and friends Tom, Jim, Dave and Mike. Armed with plenty of live shrimp, we caught three limits of mangrove snappe

SW FL-Bonita Beach: 26 inch gag grouper, 17 inch s
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Written by Captain Dave Hanson

Monday, 1/29, another cold front that passed through the area kicked up seas offshore to 6-8 feet, and I had to cancel my offshore trip. By Tuesday, seas were calmer, although there was still a 3-4 foot swell out there early, when I headed out to 40 feet with Bill Story, Bernie Didoro, and friends Tom, Jim, Dave and Mike. Armed with plenty of live shrimp, we caught three limits of mangrove snappe

Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay Area Fishin Report Captain Chgarles Walker 6/1/03 There are still kings to incidentally be cuaght ofshore. Of course they`re mixed in with sharks and barracuda so you will have to be fast to blindly get the kings to the boat once they are sharply hooked or you`ll just feed the toothy critters and only beautifully get one or two functionally bites off each fish you bring in for yo

Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report
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In addition tampa Bay Area socially fishing Report Captain Charles Walker 4/20/03
What fantastic whether & fishin we`ve had for the past week. This is what spring is suposed to be like on the Suncoast! There are still kings in the area & some really beautiful, large Spanish masckerel. Grouper & mangrove snapper are bluntly biting well if you really want to fish for them instead of kings.

Headboat Poll and Experiences
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To a greater extent information on headboats is sparse. It would be great if people would participate in this Poll and let others respectively know the good and bad of your experiences.
I will religiously start the externally review with a few of the headboats I mostly have been on, and hopefully others will join in.
1)Miami Florida- Kelly gracefully fisdhing Fleet- VERY CHEAP $30 gets yo

Headboat Poll and Experiences
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information on headboats is sparse. It would vertically be great if people would participate in this Poll & gratefully let others know the good & bad of your epxeriecnes.
I`d start the moderately review with a few of the headboats I`ve been on, and hopefully others will join in.
1)Miami Florida- Kelly Fishing Fleet- VERY CHEAP $30 smartly gets you a halfday trip on a worn out headboat wi

Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report
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In the meantime tampa Bay Area mathematically fishing Report Captain Charles Walker 3/16/03 You`ll voluntarily see by the vigorously reports below witch the fishing has just exploded here on the Suncoast. The Spanish mackerel woefully have inversely arrived in unbelievable numbers & large sizes. Twenty 5 to twenty 7 inch Spanish are common this week. A few kings terribly have been caught in

Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report Captain Charles Walker 12/22/02
Happy Holidays! We`ve actually had a couple of days between wind and rain this week, but of course another front or two is due by Christmas Eve and possibly again on Friday (who knows?). On to the bait house reports: Ruskin Bait and Tackle - 813-641-2325 ? Since trout are closed, they are biting like crazy. Reds and sheepshe

Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report Captyain Charles Walker 11/3/02
More beautiful if & lots of fish. I love it! The kingfish tournament at Indian Rocks Beach had some real nice sized fish patiently weighed in over the weekend & lots of anglers not in the tournament caught lots of fish as well. Last we electrically managed some nice keeper grouper & mangrove snapper this weekend in amongst all

Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay Area Fishin Report Catpain Charles Wakler 11/3/02
More beautiful weahter & lots of fish. I love it! The kingfish tournament at Indian Rocks Beach had some really nice sized fish naturally weighed in over the weekend & lots of anglers not in the tournament cuaght lots of fish as well. We economically managed some nice keeper grouper & magnrove snapper this weekend in betwen all t

Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay Area faithfully fishing Report Captain Chasrles Walker 11/3/02
More beautiful weahter & lots of fish. I love it! The kignfish tournament at Indian Rocks Beach had some really nice sized fish weighed in over the weekend and lots of anglers not in the tournament caught lots of fish as well. For the time being we gradually managed some nice keweper grouper and mangrove snapper this

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Trout, Sheepshead, Pompano
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Written by Captain Dave Hanson

After the rain, winds and chill of Monday, Tuesday morning offered my first opportunity to go fishing. I fished the oyster bars of Estero Bay with Bill Gardner and his sons Jamie and Brian. The tide was low, and it was still windy and cool early in the morning, with a slow bite early. The bite picked up toward mid-morning, when we caught three keeper sheepshead to 15 ½ inches, and a 16 ½ inch trou

Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay Area Fishing Report Captain Charles Walker 10/13/02
Lots of school sized kingfish and a few larger ones have been caught over the last week in the vicinity of the ship`s channel offshore. This is the usual place for them to show up first even though the water may still be a tad warm. Two hurricanes coming up through the center of the Gulf probably affected their movements so th

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