A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
Use this area to post offshore fishing reports from the area. Please try to include relevant information such as:
Location, date, time, water conditions, weather conditions, baits, techniques, species caught, etc.
The weather was very nice early in the morning but picked up heavy late in the evening. We were in a 27' Sportcraft with a fly bridge which does fairly well in rough seas. the bite was still slow. we first went out to 90' of water and picked up only a few reds. We then headed back in to 75' and went to large rock outcropping and drifted over it with a variety of frozen baits. The trick was whole Ly's. We limited out with 15 keeper blacks, the largest being 32". All in all it was a great day of fishing even though the fishing was slow. A friend was out the same day fishing with large live baits at the Exxon Template and landed a 300 pound plus jew fish. took a few pictures and released the giant. he also caught several nice black snapper. I am ready for the big bite to be on. should only be a few weeks away in the deeper water when snapper season opens.
I have a few pictures of black snapper but rarely take pictures unless their of larger species of fish. I have loaded up on black snapper at the different public and OAR wrecks close to inshore. I will post some pictures later.
