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Fished out of Horseshoe Saturday the 11th. Arrived at low tide and fished the flats north of the channel until high tide. Focused on water 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 feet deep using 4" Pearl White Gulp! Boated 30-40 trout, kept 14 of the biggest with 2 over 18", 1 over 19", and 1 that was 22" and 4 1/2 pounds. Great day with my father, brother, and nephew David Bell who had both biggest fish of the day and most fish of the day! Picture is of my brother Steven Bell and father Gene Bell with one of the many doubles for the day.
We went to Horseshoe this past Saturday 4/6 and arrived on our "spot" around 10:30am. Fishing the incoming tide with Gulp! 3-4 inch Shrimp in Pearl White, Nuclear Chicken, and New Penny. I really didn't get time to fish much, I was busy taking keeper sized trout off the hooks for my 13 yo daughter, 15 yo niece, and wife. Most were caught in 3-4 foot of water. Great day. - C. Bell
Pitched a Gambler "why not" in 2ft of water and she ate. She went right at 10lbs on the boga and measured 26" long. The fish was caught in Fanning Springs on the Suwannee river.
This was my first time fishing in saltwater over in St.Augustine. I guess you can say I got lucky but I had the biggest catch of the day a 7lbs sheepshead. - T. Green
Here's a limit from Lake Sampson on 26 January 2013 - B. Morrell
24 inch 8 lb. largemouth bass caught on Rousseau Reservoir January 17th by Art Jones as witnessed by Jack Cutright.
Boat: Art & Kaye’s 89 Javelin
Rod: Lew’s Laser SL Speed Stick HM45 (spinning reel)
Line: 20 lb. Pro braid
6 ft. Leader: Berkley 20 lb Vanish Fluorocarbon
Hook: Owner 4/0 offset worm
Weight: ¼ oz Screw Bullet Weight
Bait: Zoom, Mag U-V Speed Worm, watermelon red
Weather: 10 am. cool and raining
Location: in the lip
All tackle purchased at Garry’s Tackle Box, the same gear used in 2012 that qualifies Art Jones as Co-Angler of the Year 2012 with Bassmasters of Gator Country
Went to Marineland and had already caught some mullet at the inlet (Matanzas), as the sun started getting low, the fish started biting....there were some big fish lost, (all redfish) and enough keepers for the two of us. Heavy triangle sinkers (6 oz.) a sliding sinker rig, and 80 lb leader for the rocks, with a chunk or whole finger mullet....and the bite was on!
Me (Phil Wagner), John Fleming and Larry Ennis took our sons Reid, Evan, and Brody(turned 10 on the trip) out to the Middle Grounds for an overnight trip on Fri/Sat (7/6/12). We launched out of Cedar Key around 9:00 AM and spent a couple hours filling both baitwells. We then ran 3 hours to the first spot in 200'. We proceed to both jig and bottomfish a nice limit of red snapper with the birthday boy getting the largest at 13#'s. We then moved in a bit to 190' and proceeded to catch a good amount of red and scamp grouper plus more throw back red snapper. We anchored for the night on a nice ledge and proceeded to round out our grouper catch, throw back a lot more red snapper, and added some nice mangrove snapper up to 4#'s to the mix. It was a great trip with flat seas and 3 worn out kids (and adults) once we were finished. The kids got to see a hammerhead circle the boat and a crazy dad (me) jump in and swim with some dolphin. It was a blast.
6/30/12 Overnight fishing trip to the Middle Grounds. We ended up with limits of red snapper and all grouper plus we had some nice mangrove snapper to mix in. Phil Wagner, his son, Reid, Jay Peacock, Evan "Skee" George, & Scott Daniels
Capt. Joey Landreneau - Gary, We have been chasing over slot redfish for the last few weeks. The last couple of trips, we were able to target nice schools of 30" redfish. June 03, 2012, B. Stanley, Cedar Island neighbor, caught this 40", 24.5lb redfish on a top water plug while I was on the push pole. The shallow water prohibited the use of the trolling motor.
T. Cooper - While fishing live menhaden for Cobia out of Cedar Key on 5/26/12, much to my suprise, a hard hit and 20 minutes later, a catch and release had to be done, but boy what a beauty.
P. Wagner - We boated an amazing 14 cobia by 1:00 and left them biting!
Andrew M. - Caught on Lake Toho on March 25, 2012 in the Gainesville Bassmaster's Classic
Bion S - One of the bigger ones that took some fresh bait, drifted under a float...Or maybe picked up trolling...both were paying off!
Trying out new Father's Day gifts for fishing, John V hooked this 22+ lb Tripletail. Full story in 6/30/11 Fishing Report.
Freddy P. - Black buzz bait on Orange Lake in October of 2010. Fish cleared the water by at least two feet when she ate it. Awesome bite! Weighed 12.4 lbs.
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