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Fished out of Keaton Beach with two friends from 5/13 to 5/17 with little to show for it. We fished from Grassy Island to north of Spring Warrior, covering water from crystal clear to dirty, nothing seamed to produce consistently. On our good day we produced 9 keeper sea trout. Most days we were running 2 or 3 with a mixture of shorts thrown in. We've had cycles of slow fishing before, but it typically turns around in a five day period. Water temps ran from high 70's to low 80's, not unusual for this time of year. Maybe more unusual was only picking up one blue fish and no Spanish for this time of year. And we typically by-catch a few keepable sea bass, none this year. Grass was good, water not unusually dirty. The conditions should have produced some fish. The fish we did catch appeared pretty thin and feeding on shrimp over night. There are plenty of pin fish around but little other bait fish. I'm wondering what a few others may think is going on.

If you can't catch em no one can. We have been having a hard time at Ecofina this spring. Did you see any scallops?


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Folks over on GON site been saying it's attributed to last years fish kill because of red tide.


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Way to many fish caught in Jan/Feb. Don't know about other areas but between Steinhatchee and Keaton, in creeks like Dullas, Jack and Clay, the trout were hammered every day.

Saw a few scallops, but I think there were more a month ago?

And the trout may have been hammered in the rivers, but there's not enough creeks in that area to hold all the trout on the grass flats. It may have had an impact, but I don't think that's it. And it doesn't explain the lack of the other fish.

I agree, those creeks get hammered every year but had no ill effect the rest of the year. Definitely something going on this year tho.

I'm kinda thinking like salt therapy buy it's just my opinion I know the fish are getting hammered those couple months.i was at the ramp one day when a game warden is checking a boat which had a limit of 10 and another from the day before.when you have numerous people coming down doing that it's putting a hurt on em just my 2 cents.i wish it was still closed in Feb too.

mpa_72001 wrote:I'm kinda thinking like salt therapy buy it's just my opinion I know the fish are getting hammered those couple months.i was at the ramp one day when a game warden is checking a boat which had a limit of 10 and another from the day before.when you have numerous people coming down doing that it's putting a hurt on em just my 2 cents.i wish it was still closed in Feb too.

I'm with you MPA.....I've heard way to many folks bragging