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Been there, sorry. Your drift might have prevented success, but one time I retrieved mine with the fish still on by making multiple casts with a heavy treble hook bait to find the line and then the rod. Your short line with the fish at the net probably would have limited this technique though.

Today was a pretty day, so I took the boat out exercise the motor and check a few spots. Some small seabass here and there. But to answer the question asked here, the answer is Nothing.... https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ah87/JLB5591/wakulla_1-18-21.jpg pasted the photo link, not sure it will...

Whoda thought it. I rarely expect anything other than pelagics at a public reef. I pounded my way out to Rotary Reef in significantly greater than the 1-2 foot waves predicted Sunday morning to see if any Cobia were still around. South wind, water was 78 degrees with about 7-8 feet visibility. I had...

Navionics has an app,as long as cell service is good. A hand held GPS such as Garmin will be more reliable

In case anybody is wondering, here is the link to the C-Tower. Others can be found from the map on the site.

https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page. ... tion=sgof1

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They repaired and we now have working NWS weather buoys for the C-tower, Pensacola, and Tampa off shore stations for your planning / monitoring.

Great report, I felt like I was there!

A window of very calm weather early Friday 2-8-19 prompted me to go check out Rotary Reef for Sheepshead. Was by myself with shrimp, no sheepshead there but released a nice 23 in black drum. Then went about 8 miles further south to some live bottom areas in 28-30 feet and found lots of grunts and se...

Saturday pm west flats to shell point....turbid, brown, less than 12 in visibility, hot 90degree water, only catfish biting.

I was out there on the west flats south of Kitchen Cove and Little Pass from 1-4:30pm on Saturday 4-14....murky, less than 2 feet visibility, temp 73, not too rough since the wind let up from the morning 20+mph, but not much biting on my live shrimp either. Caught several shorts and a few sailcats. ...

I must say that I have enjoyed the response / dialog to my post. I did a little google search and may have answered my question about the survival of released fish. Properly handled, the estimated mortality is 10% average for speckled trout, probably even better in the winter. Interestingly, large h...

Mine was one of 35 to 40 boats fishing within 1 mile of the St. Mark's and Wakulla River confluence today. Almost everybody was catching fish but almost all were small, less than 15 in. I personally boated 30 for the one keeper that I came across. My concern is that this is hard on the resource. I d...

Fished with a friend and his two boys Saturday am 9-12, tried the protected, leeward areas of the west flats from Shell Point. Very strong ENE wind, murky water with 12in visibility, temp 82 degrees. Caught a couple of small bonnethead sharks, ladyfish and a few short trout. Used live shrimp and DOA...

Mine is a "strike indicator", not a cork....

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