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I have a friend who is wanting to try some of my numbers off of Steinhatchee. I'm over here north of Port Saint Joe.

1) Is the red tide affecting fishing in 30-60' off of Steinhatchee?
2) Has anyone caught a box of pink mouths, black sea bass, and a few grouper this past two weeks?

You may want to check FS forum in the Big bend section. On that forum our area is considered the northwest. Good luck

Sea Hag marina also has reports I get several per month via email, have not seen as many grouper pics as of late and seems that most of them are from spearing.

Ifishtoo wrote: Has anyone caught a box of pink mouths, black sea bass, and a few grouper this past two weeks?

Fished out of Econfina out to 30' deep a few weeks ago and could have caught a boatload of pink mouths had we been targeting them. No such luck with the grouper, but did have a king and cobe or two cruise by and hit our hooks. Wish I could help on the red tide status that deep out of Steinhatchee, but didn't launch there / didn't go much further than 30'. And to Zload's comment, grouper reports I've seen have shown spear-shot fish also.

Thanks fellas. I'll keep checking this post for a couple of days. The new moon is about now (tomorrow?) and that always "encourages" those bottom fish to feed in the daytime..... trout, too.

Trout fishing seems to have NOT been affected by any "red tide issues. Those NE & ENE winds will rule this weekend. Looks like a tropical system drifting east, towards western Cuba, will ensure some kind of easterly breeze thru 10/29.

Perhaps we'll get lucky, catch a limit of trout; then skip west 18 miles and grab 30-40 pinks & blacks, plus 2-3 keeper gags. I have done that many times in years gone by. That'll whip my old busted butt! Anyone want to join in?

After proof reading, I think that above paragraph may take two trips!!

Thanks for the few comments.

This post has had 315 views, while only three gentleman have shared any info. What are the 312 other people thinking when they click on this post? Sure seems strange that 312 chose to read this............ why??

I'm one of the 312 and am wondering the same thing you are. Just got to Steinhatchee about an hour ago. Plan to go offshore tomorrow and pull some stretches if weather permits in 25-30. If it's too rough we will fish inshore. Either way I'll let you know how it goes. Best of luck on the water!

Checking to see if the fishing is any better than at econfina , it has been slow over this way
All week it is taken me all day to caught my limit of trout

why not?

Ifishtoo wrote:Thanks for the few comments.

This post has had 315 views, while only three gentleman have shared any info. What are the 312 other people thinking when they click on this post? Sure seems strange that 312 chose to read this............ why??

Just a thought, since this thread was in the "offshore reports" section, maybe a bunch of "those people" thought they were clicking on a fishing report. Another reason is that most of the people on this forum don't fish steinhatchee( or east of Keaton for that matter). Good luck, hope you wear em out. Very polite of you to invite others, hope it goes well

I read lots of posts that I don't comment on, usually because I don't have any info that relates to the post or I realize that my opinion probably isn't worth much anyway Glad I got to at least contribute something on this one, I could very well have an inshore report from Steinhatchee this weekend if all plans hold

I'll keep watching this thread. Not sure if my fishing buddy is there this evening (Fri 10/24). He may be thinking about arriving late this evening, then calling me tomorrow. He's retired and hopes to stay for about 6-7 days. Sometime after he arrives, he'll sniff up some news from a neighbor or the fish cleaning tables at each marina. Thanks to all, your comments are appreciated.

zload wrote:I read lots of posts that I don't comment on, usually because I don't have any info that relates to the post or I realize that my opinion probably isn't worth much anyway Glad I got to at least contribute something on this one, I could very well have an inshore report from Steinhatchee this weekend if all plans hold

I didn't have anything better to do and was curious. Anytime I see you Post, I know it has to be a good fishing report. Often time reading a fishing report is the next best thing I can do besides fishing. Thanks for the invite but I stay close inshore. Lately it has been hard finding trout where I fish. I think the rain last Tuesday week messed things up? The water color changed from tea to sour milk coffee. About ten of that count might have been me checking in to see if anyone wrote anything.

Waiting to see how it all turns out.

No joy on the inshore trip... nice day a little breezy in the afternoon.

Went down with 12 buddies and 3 boats for the weekend. Had 4 in each boat. Two boats stayed Inshore and it was a bust. Only 1 boat caught two small keeper reds sight fishing down by pepper fish key. One boat ran offshore 15 miles to around 30ft and did reasonably well. They caught 3 good sized keeper Gags and 2 large kingfish all on plugs. Seems like Steinhatchee is pressured pretty hard. Hope this helped.