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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I'm a bass fisherman that was just introduced to saltwater fishing last year by my brother. Today I was able to introduce one of my friends to saltwater fishing for the first time.
We launched at Econfina around 7:45. The water is still very dingy. Ran out 2-3 miles looking for clearer water. We managed only 2 keeper trout (15-1/2 & 18"). Caught a total of about 8 trout, 3 rock bass (one about 14")and a 2' shark. It was a pretty slow day but we had a great time. Most of the trout came on jigs (various colors - candy corn, glow, chartruese) under CT's. The larger trout (as well as the shark) was caught on a small pin fish rigged under a cork.
My friend had something broke his line after a short drag stripping fight. Still not sure what it was. We also lost several decent trout near the boat.
Water temp was in the low 80's.
Welcome aboard the forum. At leasst you were out there. The dirty water is a real problem now, we fished at Keaton Friday and had the same problem. All our trout were too short, but we did catch some real big black bass on white grubs and cut bait.
