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April 23rd, 2008 "You're covered in blood and you stink!"
"You're covered in blood and you stink!" That's what my poor wife told me the other night when I got home from a very successful Tarpon Springs fishing charter. I told her, "That's what happens when your clients catch a lot of fish that taste good. Somebody has got to 'clean' them" I still don't know why they call it "cleaning fish". I make a mess when I'm "preparing" fish for for my clients. There's nothing "clean" about it. Anyway... on to the fishing report...
I had 6 fishing charters in 5 days last week. I've been in Apollo Beach, Ruskin, Tampa Bay, Clearwater, and Tarpon Springs. The fish have been in all of those places too. We had different types of fishing and caught different types of fish with each area we fished this past week. It seems like we caught every kind of inshore fish available. Snook, redfish, trout, cobia, spanish mackerel, bluefish, sharks, and one day we even ventured a couple of miles offshore and caught some grouper and mangrove snapper.
The only lull in the action we had was for a couple of days following a cold front last week. We still managed to catch some nice fish but the bite was noticeably off. By the end of the week the water temperature in Tarpon Springs was back up to 75 degrees and the bite was back to normal.
Having a livewell full of greenbacks gave us an opportunity every day to do some heavy chumming and it proved to be the key to success each trip. Lately, instead of throwing out live greenbacks for chum, we've been cutting them up. This way the chum won't swim away and have the fish follow it. By cutting them up and throwing them out, the chum stays in one spot and so do the fish. This has been especially helpful with the redfish.
Later in the week we were able to sight fish for cobia. One day we saw 10 cobia and we managed to hook 4 of them and land 2. They were following large stingrays in very shallow water. If you pitched a bait anywhere close to them, they were all over it. They were so aggressive that on one occasion a cobia ate the bobber before it ate the bait.
The rest of this week should be great. We've got good weather forecasted and the tides are pretty good. The flats and beaches are alive with fish and bait activity. All we have to do is get out there and get 'em.
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