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February is rolling on and so seems to be the winter time weather! We've had a couple late cold fronts already keep things fairly chilly here, not freezing cold but the water has stayed in the high 60 range. This has kept the traditional winter time fishing options available though has not been good for our hopes of early season tarpon fishing. It looks like we have more cold fronts on the way through the weekend and suppose to drop in the low 50s a few nights later this week. Lucky for us we still have great fishing options. Capt. Jim Willcox has been plugging away in the everglades they had good action fishing for ladyfish, trout, snapper, etc... and some big blacktip sharks. He also took some customers to some land locked areas and caught some snook and baby tarpon, lots of fun! Capt. Jeff Beeler had some big black drum a couple days in the last week, fishing shrimp in the canals. Capt. Mike Venezia had a few redfish, snook, and sheepshead while fishing in the Swamp Guides Ball. Speaking of that Capt. Bob Reineman fishing with marina manager Bill Broach and friend Capt. Dave Peck placed 2nd in that tournament with several nice redfish and a big snook - way to go! There were 61 boats fishing in it and fishing was very tough, the target fish are redfish, snook, and bonefish. Capt. Rick Stanczyk had some good fishing in the gulf a couple days with lots of spanish mackerel, some big blacktip sharks, some goliath grouper, and a nice tripletail. He also fished the ocean side patches and had a variety pack of snapper, grouper, porgy, and a few hogfish. Capt. Mike Bassett has had some good mackerel fishing as well as reported a few snook and black drum back at cape sable. Capt. Bill Bassett has had good mackerel action out in the gulf too with a few days of getting them on the fly too. Patch and mackerel fishing should remain steady with this cooler weather and even still be viable when things warm up. The everglades fishing in the winter holes, canals, etc... should also still be decent with the temperatures staying down. Last year it was already fairly warmed and stayed that way through the spring and the tarpon were chewing, this year looks to be different however it should be better for our tarpon fishing later in the spring as it will push more fish back to arrive later.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk305-747-6903
This Fishing Report was submitted on 2/10/2015 3:46:11 AM by Seamus and last updated on 2/12/2015 3:46:11 AM.
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