 September 2010
July and August were outstanding months to be fishing. And with any luck, we should have a very active continuation of fishing and catching into September.
Water and air temperatures will still be on the warm side around 90 degrees. The bait fish are concentrated in Clearwater Bay and St Joseph Sound which will keep the fish coming back for more.
What’s Hot? I’ll be targeting the same top three species that have been on fire all summer- trout, redfish and mackerel.
The redfish are scattered throughout the bay on skinny water flats and around large oyster beds. They will not be in large numbers yet, but small groups can be found. Use the high tide to search the shallows up next to the mangrove shorelines.
Tip: Have some cut up baits in a chum bat ready so if you come up on a few redfish, shut down everything and sling out the chum. Most of the time, this should hold some of those fish from swimming off.
Trout will still be in there summer haunts, passes and grass flats throughout September. Finding old yellow mouth is not difficult but locating the 20+ inchers, may take some looking. I will be exploring the 3ft to 4ft deep flats that have good moving water.
Tip: Start your fishing on the up side of the grass flat. That’s the side the moving water is hitting first. The trout will be ambushing their food as it approaches the flat.
Look for the mackerel at the top of the tide throughout the inside bays. Stake out and start chumming and soon the toothy critters will show up. Some of these fish have been quite big this year. A client back in July caught a 33 inch fish that weighed in at almost 10 lbs.
We are still at the end of summer and our fall temperatures are a ways off. Whichever species you target, go at it and catch’em up.
Capt. Gary
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