Lake Ray Hubbard Fishing Reports

Date: January 07, 2016 (look at most recent report HERE.)

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Inshore- The flounder and sheepshead bite inside Johns Pass features fired up! Almost every neighborhood angler we chatted to whenever gathering fishing report information said they'd caught either a flounder or a sheepshead. The speckled and silver trout are getting nuts at night all over dock lights too. Snook bite is slower because of cool water but a few remain being caught as soon as the liquid is going. Red seafood along the oyster bars in the pass tend to be biting fine for dudes prepared to brave the cold and windy weather. Cut ladyfish, mullet, or other smelly baits would be best option for the slow-moving winter season redfish. Cesar Torres along with his child had been fishing simply west of Johns Pass Bridge from the stones catching flounder on dead squid weighted towards the base. James Miller from Largo ended up being getting sheepshead and flounder on the very east start of north Jetty of Johns Pass. Their bait of choice ended up being whitebait when it comes to flounder and shrimp when it comes to sheepshead. Anthony Foti Jr. from Wesley chapel reported catching a nice snook from north Jetty of Johns pass utilizing a live whitebait free lined into the present. Anthony Foti Sr. from nj-new jersey was out fishing together with his child getting Flounder on western tip of the Johns Pass Jetty. Aaron Scott also from Wesley Chapel ended up being getting nice sheepshead using live shrimp on a free range permitting the bait brush along the rocky jetty.

Near shore- The present windy, rainy and harsh problems has actually hindered our begin to the purple grouper period but we finally got an all day trip away today to follow all of them. We did get a personal charter out on the first of the year aided by the Bowman family from Minnesota. They braved the weather conditions and it repaid we got a number of great red grouper because of the biggest over 30 inches. The purple grouper had been biting really for people together with Bowman’s all over sixty to ninety foot range on live pinfish. We also caught some nice hogfish while on water and plenty of snapper to round off their particular great personal charter catch around at Hubbard’s Marina. The hogfish bite features stayed steady for us regarding live shrimp. Kingfish are a lot fewer and additional between since the gulf temp extends to the low seventy degree range. Cobia and tripletail nevertheless being sight fished in near shore oceans and may be located around the almost coast reefs or wrecks. We enjoy the weather clearing to give united states to be able to go after the purple grouper again, browse our Twitter web page to see how yesterday’s 10 hour throughout the day did and don't forget, “If you’re also hectic to go fishing, You’re only also busy!”

Offshore- Red grouper and Amberjack tend to be available once more so we look ahead to using our first overseas travel of the year tomorrow. We have a week-end 39 time making the dock on January 8th at 3pm going 70-120 miles from Johns Pass to fish 120-300 base for purple grouper, amberjack, mangrove snapper, wahoo and tuna! Browse our Twitter web page Sunday to see how the ship performed or wait till next week’s report once we finally get an offshore fishing are accountable to discuss!

By Hubbard's Marina Dylan and Capt Mark Hubbard

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Captain Jack's Dolphin Corner Sightseeing Report

Recall the tale associated with the local hurt dolphin? It absolutely was dubbed baby face by the press hence neighborhood dolphin made quite the miraculous data recovery. We spotted this lady yesterday as well as the scars on her tail are nearly hidden now simply little notches being totally healed over.

We have many seeing dolphins in the region at this time helping our regional dolphins corral the mullet pouring out from the straight back bayous.

We are nevertheless spotting manatees around Egmont Key that will be highly unusual for this time of year since by now our waters are usually also chilly for manatees is hanging out within regional oceans. But we have had unseasonably hot temperatures allowing them to hangout later on around.