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Fishing Report: By Capt. Frank Bourgeois
Inshore-to twelve miles out and offshore fishing
April fishing in my book is about the time everyone is ready and thinking about fishing. Except for spring gobbler season hunting is put on the back burner. Now the quest for the big fish is in a lot of people’s minds. I have been working closely with Dixie Lee bait and tackle home of Double Trouble fishing charters specializing in back-water fishing to fill my client’s calendar book with just about any type of fishing you want to do. I also have charters working Bass fishing so if you want to go fishing just give me a call for the fishing trip of a lifetime. Well you want to know what’s going on in the world of fishing, so here we go starting with Bass fishing. According to Capt Al Lyman (from Lake county, Florida fishing the Harris chain, Lake Toho and Lake Kissimmee) the fish are just getting off the beds and his clients caught many over 10 pound fish, on recent charters. Capt’s Mark and Luke from Double Trouble Charters have been catching many nice Sea Trout and Red Fish on artificial lures such as D.O.A. cal jigs and spoons. As far as Always Fishing Charters I have been working the deeper water for trout and looking for the extra shallow water grouper to appear. Most times when the Tarpon come in to our area so do the shallow water grouper. On the deeper inshore waters I have been or I should say my clients have been catching big gator trout and to my surprise lots of Blue fish. I also have seen the needle fish on the surface and the Mackerel busting them. Yes folks thing are starting to happen here. Now to convince Mother Nature to slow down the cold fronts and the wind, we will have it made. The area called the parking lot which is about twenty-five foot of water is still slow I have been catching most of my fish in forty foot to sixty five foot of water. On a trip I did recently with Jim Petit working as a first mate, (Jim manages the new tackle shop in the Outlet Mall) he was fishing next to me and we was fishing with a nice family that included a six year old boy. On board the boat I usually carry a spinning rig for Amberjacks ridged with thirty pound line, seeing this was the lightest rod in the boat the young boy and Jim was using a squid product called Tuff-E-Nuff, I buy this product and has been very successful for catching White Grunts and Sea Bass but this day the large grouper decided this was the bait of choice. The young boy caught and brought home three nice keeper size grouper. Of course a large smile came from a proud dad. Just for your knowledge I have been much more successful in the afternoon than in the mornings also when the sun is not as bright the fish did bite best. This is about to change as the fish are migrating and when the water temperature reaches the high sixties to eighty this will be the best time to grab a rod and go fishing. One point I would like to make! We are still on winter tides which means we will be about a foot lower than normal low tides. I use the Bayport boat ramp mostly and have destroyed 4 props so far this year. If you have a boat that draws a lot of water please for your own sake! Use the Hernando Beach boat ramp till the summer tides take over.
Keep a tight line till next time
Captain Frank Bourgeois
Always Fishing Guide Service
Office: 352-666-6234
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