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
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Today was one of those days where you can do no wrong. From the time we cut the motor at 7:00 am to the time we left the water we caught spanish. Some of the biggest I've ever caught. We threw everything but the cast net and they would hit it. Gonna take the bream buster tomorrow. If you got a hit fought him and lost him just keep reeling because their will be another one. And if the bait was sticking out others would fight him for it. I think all these spanish are here but they have nothing much to eat because we saw no bait. They are so thick that the water is actually oily. Just fish around the oil slicks and catch them.
There are more spanish on the east flats than I have seen in the 10 years I have been fishing them. Here are just a few of the ones we didn't throw back or that just flat out muscled us. We ended up with 23 in the box after I had to beg Steve and Sonny not to keep any more. The last one of the day turned out to be the biggest at 5 pounds 10 ounces. We caught well over 200 fish today and I think that's a conservative estimate.
The Spanish are thicker than I've ever seen. Saturday the wife and I fished the flats for an hour, no bites, nothing, not even pins. Moved to 12' SE of the birdrack trolling Clark spoons. Located a bait school and it was hang on! The fog moved in and the bite kept up. We quit trolling, just motored up to bait pod and cast anything. It was crazy for 3 hours. We kept 8 big Spanish and released somewhere around 40. These fish on light tackle are a blast. Got to go to Wally World to replenish Clark spoons and steel leaders.
We moved out to 12' at 11:00 AM. We were heading towards St Marks reef and 1.5 miles North of the reef we saw the bait fish. Never made it to the reef. We (and several very agressive dolphin) worked that bait pod for the next 2 hours. Got out fill and headed in. I did not have the radio on as BJ had the FM cranked up. It was one of those days....sea fog, Rolling Stones, and Spanish on light tackle. Had a blast!
If you got a hit fought him and lost him just keep reeling because their will be another one. And if the bait was sticking out others would fight him for it. I think all these spanish are here but they have nothing much to eat because we saw no bait. They are so thick that the water is actually oily. Just fish around the oil slicks and catch them.
Save some more for me.
