Florida Fishing Report Florida Fishing Charters For Tarpon, Snook, Red Fish. From Boca Grande, Fort Myers, Sanibel, Punta Gorda » Grouper Fishing http://gofishcharters.com/fishingreport Florida Fishing Charters For Tarpon, Snook, Red Fish. From Boca Grande, Fort Myers, Sanibel, Punta Gorda Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:01:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Redfish Schooled Up Tarpon Fishing Around The Corner http://gofishcharters.com/fishingreport/2009/02/08/redfish-schooled-up-tarpon-fishing-around-the-corner/ http://gofishcharters.com/fishingreport/2009/02/08/redfish-schooled-up-tarpon-fishing-around-the-corner/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:50:43 +0000 Capt. Andy Boyette/Go Fish Charters http://gofishcharters.com/fishingreport/?p=185 With the cold fronts that past over the past week and low temps the coldest they have been in recent years, I took a cold run around the flats and back-country waters yesterday. Fortunately the water temps have been low enough from previous cold weather as far back as November our snook population was prepared and unaffected. I looked at several schools of red fish with the smallest about 20 fish to one school with over a 100 fish. Once the water temps come up a few degrees this has the potential for some great red fishing action. The trout bite as been fair but the fish are in shallower water than you might expect. Hard baits are working good when the fish are feeding while jig and plastic combinations worked slow on the bottom will produce when the bite slows.

There should be an abundance of bait as spring approaches with the grass flats in the area in the best shape I have seen in several years. The east side of Charlotte Harbor has grass in areas that lost 80-100% 4 years ago to the hurricanes. The hard hit mangroves are also beginning to show new life. This should in turn help filter the water and further improving the overall quality.

Tarpon season is shaping up nicely with about 50% of my book filled already. With the nearly 15 hours of day light in the summer I manage to do 2 tarpon fishing trips a day so I still have about 50 openings so it is not to late. Last season saw numerous tarpon caught and released over 200lbs and I directly attribute this to the catch and release practice as well as a few years of no red tide to kill the baitfish these tarpon are here to eat. I expect to have another large tarpon run, and eventually with the tarpon tournaments in Boca Grande Pass, and the fish being weighed, that there will be a record tarpon caught out of this area.

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]]> http://gofishcharters.com/fishingreport/2009/02/08/redfish-schooled-up-tarpon-fishing-around-the-corner/feed/ 0 Grouper Fishing http://gofishcharters.com/fishingreport/2008/12/27/181/ http://gofishcharters.com/fishingreport/2008/12/27/181/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:35:22 +0000 Capt. Andy Boyette/Go Fish Charters http://gofishcharters.com/fishingreport/?p=181 With the new fishing regulations coming into effect for grouper, I decided to take a quick fun trip offshore over the holidays. I accompanied Dr Dan Moenning and his father and father-in-law in search of dinner. we traveled west for over 12 miles before we ever found bait a stark contrast to my last offshore trip when bait was thick as molasses. After a few stops we had a couple of dozen squirrel fish and about a dozen hand size blue runners. On the first grouper hole we managed 1nice keeper red grouper, we moved to another and picked some under size gag grouper. On the third and final stop of the day 2 more short gag’s and 3 nice keeper red grouper. We also caught around 15 nice lane snapper up to about 2 pounds.

On a side note to any on out there with some old TD numbers they have held on to, Dan had acquired a new program to convert TD numbers , having tried this on a number of occasions, without success, we reluctantly fished some spots we converted with the new program. This new program converted our numbers dead on the money. At the moment the program is unavailable to the public, but will be coming as an update to certain manufactures GPS systems in the first part of 2009. I will report the names after the release, so anyone looking for it will know how to get it.

Also tarpon season is around the corner I have been booking trips already, but have a lot of availability. Give me a call to discuss any dates the end of May is already pretty jammed up. But the beginning of May and June is mostly open.

Hope Every One Had A Great Christmas And Looking Forward to A Prosperous New Year

Capt Andy Boyette
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