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 inshore 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.
THIS MORNIN , 11-1-06, THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA AND ROY LAUNCHED THE STARCRAFT AT ABOUT 7 A.M. AT ECONFINA. WE WENT OUT TO THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER AND A LITTLE TO THE RIGHT AND STARTED CASTING TOP WATER PLUGS. AFTER SEVERAL BLOW-UPS ROY CAUGHT THE FIRST TROUT. WE FISHED THE AREA AROUND THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER TILL 12:30 AND THEN HEADED IN. WE HAD OUR LIMIT OF NICE TROUT BY 11:30, WE ONLY CAUGHT 11 TROUT AND ALL BUT ONE WERE KEEPERS. WE USED DOA GLOW SHRIMP ON JIGS, GULP SHRIMP ON JIGS. AND SEVERAL OTHER GRUBS UNDER CORKS, FISHED TOP WITH DEVIL HORSE, BOMBER, MIRRO-LURE , AND SEVERAL OTHER BRANDS. THE WEATHER WAS PERFECT UNTILL THE WIND STOPPED, THEN IT GOT HOT. IT IS AMAZING HOW MUCH DIFFERENCE ONE WEEK CAN MAKE. LAST WED. WE WERE SO COLD THAT WE WERE SHAKING AND COULD NOT GET WARM, TODAY HAD TO STRIP DOWN TO OUR SHORTS TRYING TO KEEP COOL. HAD A GREAT DAY ON THE POND AND CAUGHT SOME NICE TROUT. IT LOOKS LIKE TOMORROW WILL BE STILL ANOTHER CHANGE WITH HIGH WINDS ALL DAY LONG AND THEN COOLER. GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT TODAY.
PA THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA AND ROY
WTG, Pa. We fished the same time you did and did about like you did, limit at 11:30. Got one keeper red and 2 nice black drum to 20''. It was a good day for sure.
HEY DIXIE, DID YOU STOP AT J.R.S WED. MORNIN, THOUGHT I SAW YOUR BOAT PARKED THERE? I GUESS WED. MORNIN WAS THE BEST WE HAVE HAD, GETTING THE LIMIT IN SUCH A SHORT TIME. GLAD YA GOTEM.
PA THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA
No, that wasn't us. We saw that boat but didn't stop at JR'S. Most of our fish came from clumps of grass some people call nutgrass, big bushy stuff. I gotta have a big fishfry this weekend because I sure want to get back down there.
I BELIEVE THE CLUMPS OF GRASS YOU DISCRIBED WOULD BE TURTLE GRASS, IF IT HAS SMALL BALLS OR NODULES ON THE END THIS IS WHAT IT IS.
PA THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA