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.
Back in the neighborhood. We were at Dog Island Shoal. I may call it a reef sometimes but that's not what I mean. We did catch bunch of different species and that was fun. That's not a surprise because the diversity is always much higher in late summer into the fall. I didn't get any photo's. I was doing some seagrass trawls yesterday & we found near every species of critter (verts & inverts) that I've ever seen out there, at least all of the slow ones. The flouder are real abundant now.
Tom was right about the bait sized Leather Jacket, Oligoplites saurus. I don't get caught up in what's the "right" common name. I call them yellow tail as well. I do know they'll burn they hell out of you if grab them wrong. I gave up and tore one out of my bait net and somewhere around the operculum (gill plates) they have spines that can deliver a toxin. It only last about 20 minutes but it was evil.
