Sunday Fishing

Typically I try not to fish on the weekends, but a friend was down and we only had Sunday to fish.

We picked up plenty of whitebait from the Bayport channel near the new turn marker. The whitebait has been thick around Bayport, but have all but disappeared from the Hernando Beach Channel.

The first stop was the Hernando Beach cuts, near marker 5 and 9. Of course there was plenty of boat traffic but we could not get back to Centipede Bay for another hour. We fished for about an hour and caught jacks, lady fish and a bluefish. I have noticed catching more jacks as fall approaches.

FYI Jacks are god for bait, especially a strip bait for trolling, Kingfish can not resist them. Basically you fillet both sides (include the bones ) and make tear a drop shape fillet. Depending on the size of the jack you can get one or two baits from each side. If you get a big jack you can make a belly strip bait as a bonus. Also if you do not use them for kingfish, they also make great grouper bait. You can lay them flat and freeze them in pairs. Then thaw and they a ready for use. The next batch of jacks I catch I'll post a how to on the offshore blog.

We headed back to Centipede bay on a ripping incoming tide and caught some more jacks, a shark and one 25" redfish. Then headed home to beat the rains.

Tide : -.01 10:32 am Rising
Water Clarity : clear
Moon Phase: New
Temp: 91 F
Water Temp : 88 F
Wind: 10 mph NE - 15 mph W
Bait: Whitebait
Results: 1 Redfish - 5 jacks - 1 Bluefish - 3 Lady Fish - 1 Bonnethead shark