Re: Spring Water temps / timing
Posted: February 15th, 2019, 5:35 pm
For the migration in the spring, do you just idle around in the nearshore area ( 20' to 30' ) looking for them on the surface from a tower?
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Not unless you're fishing clear waters like those in the Panama City / Destin area.Srbenda wrote:For the migration in the spring, do you just idle around in the nearshore area ( 20' to 30' ) looking for them on the surface from a tower?
Great.big bend gyrene wrote:Not unless you're fishing clear waters like those in the Panama City / Destin area.Srbenda wrote:For the migration in the spring, do you just idle around in the nearshore area ( 20' to 30' ) looking for them on the surface from a tower?
If talking about the darker waters inside the Apalachee Bay area, you're better off targeting any kind of structure that draws in bait -- bird racks, rocky areas, reefs, buoy markers, etc. Can also occasionally catch them floating pins behind your boat if / when drift fishing flats areas, though depending on how bad sharks are at the time it can be a PITA having to deal with them hitting your pins.
rockyg wrote:That new to you Dorado has caught a lot of fish over it's life. Hopefully, the mojo is still there. A tower is a great tool for spotting fish.
Salty, not sure how much stock I'd be able to put in that data as for whatever reason some days it seems they want to swim up top and the keeper ratio is high... whereas other days we've had double digit hook-ups without a single fish pulled over the gunnels due to cut-offs. Love putting new-to-salwater anglers on cobes, but with the consequence that over the years I'm pretty sure we've lost more REALLY big fish than we've landed.Salty Gator wrote:Another cool thing to keep track of would be number of keeper vs shorts caught on a day. It would be interesting to see how the ratio changed over the summer.