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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Left the dock at 7am this morning. Crew for the day was myself, dad, and herb. Plan was to fish inshore since offshore is in time out till this fall. Wish it wasnt off limits cause it was flat flat flat today. Fished the east flats in 5-6 ft of water first thing this am. Trout bite was good till about 9. Ended up boxing 4 keeper trout and 3 black sea bass b4 9am. Decided to take a swim and look for some scallops. Bounced around a bunch and never really found a big concentration. Looked in 5 or 6 places and only ended up with about 4 dozen. Not quite sure where all of yall have been killing them but we dang sure couldnt find a bunch...one here and one there. Went out to some shallow rocks in 14ft to clean scallops and put some pins behind the boat in the scallop slick. Got knocked down twice but never say what they were. Fished gulps on bottom the last 1/2 hour and managed an 18" flounder and a couple more sea bass. Back to the ramp by 4. Good day on the water but really cant wait for our wonderful fisheries managers to let the offshore fish come out of timeout!
"Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing it's not the fish they are after." -Henry David Thoreau
Jhults11 wrote:Plan was to fish inshore since offshore is in time out till this fall. Wish it wasnt off limits cause it was flat flat flat today... can't wait for our wonderful fisheries managers to let the offshore fish come out of timeout
Jhults11, appreciate how many fish are off limits and sure t'aint happy about it myself but if you're looking for a good excuse to go deep can still keep red groupas and NO SHORTAGE of cobia crusing the wrecks/reefs this year! In fact used fresh scallop guts this past weekend to pull three to the boat out in deeper waters and almost sure we lost a few more that were bigger than the biggest 40" one we caught.
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LONG run outta st marks in the summer for only 2 red grouper a piece (30+ miles). As for cobia go, iv given them a shot a couple of time by chuming over some of our good structure spot with no avail. Cobia #s like yall have are magical. Iv looked and tried new spots of structurein the 20-25 range without any luck. I dont target them enough te be sucessful with it but i may have to till the gags open up...-tight lines
"Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing it's not the fish they are after." -Henry David Thoreau
Not quite sure where all of yall have been killing them but we dang sure couldnt find a bunch...one here and one there. Went out to some shallow rocks in 14ft to clean scallops and put some pins behind the boat in the scallop slick. Got knocked down twice but never say what they were. Fished gulps on bottom the last 1/2 hour and managed an 18" flounder and a couple more sea bass. Back to the ramp by 4. Good day on the water but really cant wait for our wonderful fisheries managers to let the offshore fish come out of timeout! 
Thanx for the report. 
