>Recent fishing reports from “No Motor Zone” anglers from all regions around the state.
First Red
Florida Sportsman member: SpaceCoast Slayer
The kids are out of school on christmas break so I figured I would get my boy out on the water in the yaks. He’s still a little too young to be interested in hardcore plastic slinging type fishing so I just brought him out to where I knew there were a couple reds and we laid out a couple chunks and relaxed while taking in the scenery.
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Topwater Snookin’
Florida Sportsman member: kwanza98
Forum member kwanza98 put together a cool short video of a big snook destroying a topwater. Nice work!
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Hot Action before the Cold
Florida Sportsman member: Spacecoast Slayer
After half an hour of paddling I see a nice group of backs breaking the surface. Threw a chartreuse Mr. Wiffelure past them and whizzed it by and it got thumped. Assumed it was going to be a red but to my surprise it was a drum.
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From Dawn till Dusk
Florida Sportsman member: John McKroid
In 185 feet of water while approaching an area of feeding birds, the runner rod bent over. A mahi was jumping on the end of the line, and before I could get him landed the other reel started screaming.
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Great Day of Fishing
Florida Sportsman member: harrisa2006
Not 20 minutes later I am working a nice choke point and I get crushed again! This time this fish knew instantly something wasn’t right, and ran straight towards the mangroves went way back in there.
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West Palm Offshore
Florida Sportsman member: Pottymouth
We got a late start so we purchased bait instead of catching some. Made it out to the grounds tossed out a livie and began jigging. Soon after I hear flip yell out “mahi heading to your gog.”
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Dolphin on the Jig
Florida Sportsman member: meckert
Mine hit a Victory Lures Pink Dart Jig and Adam tossed his gog bug and another Mahi that was swimming by.
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Dania Wahoo
Florida Sportsman member: kayakfrank
I was trolling a Yozuri Crystal Minnow and a blue runner. Just as soon as I reached 60 ft, the Yozuri got smacked. The fish made some hard runs before tiring down a bit, just enough to let me glimpse at the biggest kingfish I had seen next to my kayak.
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Starting November Right
Florida Sportsman member: jcanracer
We were thinking of calling it a day by 11am, but out of nowhere my last, near-dead, goggle eye got smacked and I was onto mahi number two. As with before, the fish did not want to come into the kayak. This time the mahi, after being landed, made a heroic leap back into the water!
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Pompano Mixed Bag
Florida Sportsman member: John McKroid
After filling up with runners, I started fishing at 7:30am and there was no current, rain, but thankfully a little wind and frequent schools of baby bonitas breaking the water feeding. Fish bit good on runners for about two and a half hours.
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Jiggin’ em Offshore
Florida Sportsman member: Whelan
Launched with Paul from Boyton this morning. Caught all of my fish on a JimyJig Japo in the color punk pink.
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Boynton Drift
Florida Sportsman member: Produkt
I hit the water at six to mullet all over the surf with runners, ladyfish and bluefish chasing them. Mullet were jumping into my kayak and I was even able to scoop some out of the water by hand. Got out and put a live runner on a rip in 130 feet and quickly got hit by a king.
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Banana River Action
Florida Sportsman member: AceDawg
Black drum were also scattered in small schools in about two feet of water, just barely breaking the surface with their tails. The total for the day ended with 17 reds, 2 trout, 1 tarpon, and 2 black drum.
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Pompano Offshore
Florida Sportsman member: jcanracer
We decide to pitch some lures that way to play with them for a while but they just wouldn’t hit anything bigger than the white fry they were apparently chasing. As we were giving up on this area I see a mahi jump behind and to my left, then I see it jump again, and I look at my rod as it then bends over and starts to go off!
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Bulls from the Kayak
Florida Sportsman member: SpaceCoast Slayer
We poled around in the murk for three hours without seeing a single fish. I finally ran into one, almost literally but with the extreme murkiness it didn’t see me. I flipped my Pearl White MrWiffelure three feet beyond the fish and proceeded to rip it back to me and he crushed five feet from the boat.
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Boynton Tunas
Florida Sportsman member: Produkt
A few guys got some kings early in the morning but the live bait drift was mostly slow despite bait balls everywhere. I went out a little deeper to 315-325 feet and found some tuna. Caught a few and headed in to make it to work by noon.
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Doubled up
Florida Sportsman member: meckert
Forum member meckert put together a video of some nice sails caught via kayak. Nice work!
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Personal Best
Florida Sportsman member: TideUp
The water came on up and my go to spot was looking right so moved over there and bam caught a nice spotted red really quick. While dehooking him, I heard a monster slam around the bend so I grabbed the spook jr. And waded around the corner for a cast.
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Pompano Mixed Bag
Florida Sportsman member: John McKroid
Small Almacos bit well on the vertical jigs, one drop caught two jacks on one jig. Total catch for the day included 10 Almacos, two cudas, a bonita and a yellowtail snapper taken in 200 feet of water on the vertical jig.
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Boynton Bull
Florida Sportsman member: meckert
Forum member meckert shared a recent video he put together. He caught two nice dolphin off of Boynton and Lake Worth, on a speed jig and a blue runner. Nice work!
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Tampa Bay Tailers
Florida Sportsman member: rkotinsky
I looked at the tide tables and found some good low tides occurring after working hours. Launched two hours before low tide and worked my way out to the flats. Saw dozens of mullet schools along the way none of which contained any red fish.
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Flamingo Reds
Florida Sportsman member: Produkt
Today went much better. Finally got my first Florida redfish and my first redfish from the kayak. I caught two redfish, one mangrove snapper and two jack crevelle, my buddy caught one juvenile tarpon, six redfish, and a handful of mangrove snapper.
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Paddling the Banana River
Florida Sportsman member: AceDawg
The bite is solid from 6am till about 830. It slows down but is still possible to catch fish. One of the last reds I caught was right along the shoreline as I was heading back in around 1130. I saw a splash out of the corner of my eye and it looked like he was doing backflips in the water.
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Flood Tide Via Paddleboard
Florida Sportsman member: Jettyrat3200
Forum member Jettyrat3200 recently got on some nice reds from the paddleboard. Fishing the flood tides, flies were the ticket to getting the bite.
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Mill Cove Kayaking
Florida Sportsman member: jacqueo
I must have hit the red on the head as I threw it because within seconds my line was screaming. 20 inch red into the cooler! Yes!
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Big Girl from the Groves
Florida Sportsman member: harrisa2006
I positioned my yak to make a few good cast and my second cast in, I get thumped by a solid snook. I only had 20 pound leader but this fish wanted to play hide and seek in the mangroves so I had to get down and dirty with her and pull her out from under the mangroves twice! I landed her after a couple minutes and she hit the tape at 34 inches, but really really fat!
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Banana River Mixed Bag
Florida Sportsman member: AceDawg
After messing with them for a bit started heading back south scouting the shoreline and started spotting fins cruising the shore. Reds were scattered throughout along the shore and buried in grass. Caught 7 on my way back down before getting stuck in a storm. Hunkered down in the mangroves and sat it out for an hour.
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Vilano from the Kayak
Florida Sportsman member: kayakling
For about an hour large schools of spanish mackerel were about destroying bait. After tearing through some of those and some bluefish I slowly started to drift back to the bridge. Hit up my favorite spots on the way and only managed smaller jacks.
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A Drift with Friends
Florida Sportsman member: kayakfrank
We planned a drift a few days back, and some nice fish were caught. Steve killed it out there with a sailfish, tuna and a kingfish.
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Good Day in the Bay
Florida Sportsman member: rkotinsky
After a few casts my lure gets inhaled and I have a nice fish on. She goes airborne and a nice battle ensues with a good size snook. She heads for the mangroves and I stop her, she jumps again and again then goes under my kayak. I slowly work her and she tires and I measure her out to 34 inches.
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Pompano Blackfins
Florida Sportsman member: John McKoid
Weather was flat calm, but unfortunately the weeds were still a problem, causing fouled baits. Current was not too strong, but found a distinct current break in about 120 feet of water, fished it for awhile with no luck. Saw a few small blackfins jumping and jigged up one in about 175 feet of water.
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Tarpon at the Bridge
Florida Sportsman member: harrisa2006
I was able to fish the last of the outgoing, and the beginning of the incoming and the bite was on today! Was able to stick 4 fish, 2 of which absolutely school me around pilings, and 2 that I was able to put the boots to in tight quarters and get them to the boat!
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Fort Pierce Kayaking
Florida Sportsman member: inshore dave
I was casting a DOA Cal under the mangrove overhangs when I had a big explosion as soon as it hit the water. Well, after a 20 minute fight I landed by biggest snook to date.
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Sunset Reds
Florida Sportsman member: rkotinsky
Put on my favorite sardine lure for a few more last casts into some mangrove edges in the hopes of saving the day with at least one keeper sized fish. My fish was granted when I cast into one of the few weedless edges on the backside of a mangrove island. Finally a good hard hit and the sound of drag with the end result being a nice 24 inch fatty red fish.
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Sebastian Offshore Via Kayak
Florida Sportsman member: fyshfynder
Next trip was solo about a mile South of the inlet. Wasn’t much going on. Saw some birds way out, so I started paddling. Fish were busting under the birds. Tossed a live mojarra into the frenzy and got a big bonito that snapped my rod at the boat.
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First Sailfish
Florida Sportsman member: Tuffstang
After my second drop the drag clicker on my live bait started screaming. Dropped lever into strike and started cranking. It was just a dead weight no pull or flutter on the line. We went from depths of 200 feet to 400 feet in minutes when the sail leaped out and danced across the water. A couple more leaps and literally jumping over Devodud’s bow, the sail tired out.
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Silver Kings from the Kayak
Florida Sportsman member: mjrudd1
During my latest visit to Florida, I went after tarpon mostly. Caught a few and had a great time. I prefer chasing them in shallow water but got to go where they are, not where they aren’t. It gets really crowded out there, over 50 boats fishing the same area and usually I’m the only kayak.
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Vilano Kayaking
Florida Sportsman member: kayakling
On my last cast after about three hours there I did stick an old nasty redfish. I helped him out and cleared some old rigs out from his mouth, medium effort measure in the Hobie was close to 42 inches. Left with a couple of decent flounder, also caught whiting, pigfish, ladyfish.
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Tuna on the Drift
Florida Sportsman member: John McKroid
Made 2 drifts for 2 bonita and hooked and lost something bigger. It was too exhaustive to try to make another wreck drift ( current was around 2.5 knots). Put out the live flying fish and it did not take long to get eaten.
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Banana River Variety
Florida Sportsman member: AceDawg
Got a wide variety of bites in the Banana River today. In total 6 reds, a small snook, 2 juvenile tarpon, my buddy got a nice black drum on a mirrolure (of all things for them to hit, haven’t seen that before) and a handful of trout.
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Shallow Water Reds
Florida Sportsman member: SnookStack
During the lowlight morning hours artificial baits have been producing fish on the flats of Tampa. With the grass grown in it’s been a weightless, weedless setup for my choice artificial setup. Later in the day, I’ve been working the late evening incoming through high tide with cut mullet.
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Tampa Bay Kayak Fishing
Florida Sportsman member: rkotinsky
I leave the oyster flat and work some other channels and choke points and land another nice 23 inchred fish. With the day coming to an end I try my snook hole and work it from every angle. My lure gets absolutely annihilated and it feels like what I hope to be my first 40 plus inch snook.
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Canoeing with the Wife
Florida Sportsman member: Bush Whacker
Thankfully the rain stayed over towards the barrier islands the whole time we were out. We paddled south and tried the deeper flats for a bit with nothing but a few small trout. We then decided to whack the bushes. And that’s where things lit up.
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Boca to Boynton Drift
Florida Sportsman member: John McKroid
There was some steady action including a big reef donkey that got away. Catches included 2 bonita, 2 small amicos, a small blackfin, a king and mutton. All caught on jigs except for the mutton.
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NMZ Fun
Florida Sportsman member: AceDawg
I hit the Banana River today out of Kars Park. Caught 6 reds and 3 snook for the day. First time I’ve caught a snook, great fight. Pretty good day even though the wind just hasn’t given up.
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Good Bite on the Drift
Florida Sportsman member: kitesfr
As we passed the inlet, I hooked into something that made my reel scream pretty good. I felt a bit of a head shake, so I thought I had a big big bonito. He kept taking line and giving me a little back. I finally got a glimpse of it and thought I saw stripes!
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Coot Bay Kayaking
Florida Sportsman member: Tnolaninc
I was able to land a decent micro-poon in the morning on a hand tied fly, jumped maybe 5 more on artificial Zman baits rigged weedless and on a DOA 1/8 jig, Landed 4 snook one of decent size.
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Jacksonville Tarpon
Florida Sportsman member: unincom
Eventually the tarpon figured out which direction it wanted to go and pulled my anchor free from the bank and started taking me south. It pulled me back into a side creek above a submerged sandbar, which was a blessing as it allowed to to hop out of the kayak and fight it standing up.
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Backwater Action
Florida Sportsman member: cbmdk86
Been getting the snook and reds on the 4 inch MrWiffelure Shad in the white/fire tail and straight pink colors. This is a killer lure and the snook hit it like it owes em money. Since I have started throwing it, it has definitely helped me put more snook on deck.
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Fort Pierce Backcountry
Florida Sportsman member: evergladeskid243
Picked up a redfish as I began to make my exit out of my spot, blind casting every mangrove shoreline with a topwater, hoping to hook a snook as grand as the one who had left me in despair earlier.
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After Work Red
Florida Sportsman member: jacqueo
I threw just past where all the commotion was and worked it back over all the bait ruckus, when slam! It took off under my kayak, to the left, to the right, around in a circle, all the while I’m cursing like a sailor at the fish.
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Clapboard Creek Kayaking
Florida Sportsman member: jacqueo
That’s when I remembered that I had a pedal drive and could easily troll instead of sitting in one place fighting the skunk. Threw a mud minnow onto a jig, cast it behind me and started working the grassline. Within one minute I had a great bite and pulled in my personal best flounder.
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African Pompano from the Yak
Florida Sportsman member: lmp1978
Forum member lmp1978 caught a stud african pompano via kayak, off of the beaches of Dania Beach. Not only do african pompano pull hard, they are great table fare.
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New Personal Best
Florida Sportsman member: rkotinsky
I loosened the drag a bit so as not to have the hooks bend or the fish pull free. After 3 minutes of getting no where with the fish it finally came into view and knew it was a new personal best red. Now the pressure was on me to land the fish for some pictures and entry into the 30 inch club.
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Bahamas Fun
Florida Sportsman member: John McKroid
The weather was nice, little bit of offshore wind on day one of the tournament, but overall very manageable compared to Florida.
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Dinner and a Show
Florida Sportsman member: sake138
We met the bait guy on the water around 730. The current was pretty strong and so was the wind. We ended up drifting north about 7 miles! I got two mahi mahi, one being a 50 inch bull, and my first sail on a yak!
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West Central Kingfish on a Kayak
Florida Sportsman member: harrisa2006
Getting a kingfish on the west coast, from a kayak, not the easiest task. When you consider relative quick migration, dirty Gulf water, days off from work, combined with hoping for good conditions, and getting your bait to stick once one decides to eat, the odds can be stacked against us!
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Indian River Kayaking
Florida Sportsman member: Rulesman69
The bait was everywhere in the cove. Started throwing chrome Twitchin’ Raps, 10:15, bam! Watched a 3 pound trout come up and slam the Rap right by the boat. 10:35, wham, big fish on, fought it to the boat and landed and released another trout about 7 pounds.
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Snook Filled Weekend
Florida Sportsman member: Silent snooker
Went back up to the Loxahatchee River hoping to play with some of the small snook we were catching two weeks ago and was lucky enough to find more upper and over slot snook than small ones.
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West Palm Offshore
Florida Sportsman member: Pottymouth
Forum member PottyMouth and friend, Flip got out and caught some nice fish off of Palm Beach, also losing a few to the tax man.
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Good Luck in the Bluewater
Florida Sportsman member: Temensisyakfishing
I put the jigging rod in the flush mount rod holder, and I grab the rod when I see this beast jumping out of the water!. let me say that I can count the times I have gone out offshore with my fingers and this is my second sailfish ever, so it is amazing to catch one.
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Catching in the Kayak Offshore
Florida Sportsman member: Nick561
Forum member Nick561 got into some fish offshore recently on his kayak.
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Brother’s First
Florida Sportsman member: frankthetank
Forum member frankthetank got out with his brother recently and caught some fish. Fishing off of Boynton, not only did his brother catch his first sailfish, they caught 6 blackfin tunas as well. Nice!
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Snook Island
Florida Sportsman member: Produkt
I had fished there many times before without much luck but it had been a while and decided to give it a shot. We only fished for about an hour and a half but I managed to get 2 for 2 on the under-slot snook. First one was about 23 inches and second one was about 25.
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Wintertime Bruiser
Florida Sportsman member: harrisa2006
I moved on, moving further up the canal and noticed I was sitting in 10+ feet of water, but I could see the bottom, up near the mangroves not far from me, so I knew there was a drop off, and with the water by the mangroves not moving nearly as fast as the channel, I figured it was a good ambush spot.
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Ozello Reds
Florida Sportsman member: TideUp
I fished around most of the morning without any bites fishing deeper cuts and drops around the area with no luck. Spooked a few reds after lunch in shallow flats so I changed my strategy and started sight fishing.
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Loxahatchee Snookin’
Florida Sportsman member: palmbeachpete
Forum member palmbeachpete put together a video of him wrestling with some nice snook on his paddleboard in the Loxahatchee River.
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First Slam
Florida Sportsman member: MSW_SatelliteBeach
Coffee now cold and I’m wondering why, after years of catching trout with no problem, I can’t find any. Wind starts blowing me off the bank I’m following just as I toss out a cast. Adjust kayak, reel line in to tighten slack on the rod and just as the mirrodine hits the top of the water, BAM!
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Sebastian Inshore
Florida Sportsman member: palmbeachpete
Forum member palmbeachpete shows what Sebastian has to offer for the paddling angler. Launching at Riverview park, he gets into some fish and gives some helpful tips and directions.
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Fishing the Backwater
Florida Sportsman member: rkotinsky
One particular area had a lot of mullet activity and the best water flow in the immediate area. We both continued to land more small snook and worked the area hard given all of the activity. Well it finally paid off when mama snook showed up for the party with her 32 inches of glory!
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Chokoloskee Via Paddleboard
Florida Sportsman member: Lurchy
I fished the whole incoming and part of the outgoing in the maze of creeks and bars to the WSW of Choko. Saw some reds throughout the day, and got a decent one close to the end of the day. I saw him move off a oyster bar and under some groves, pitched a gulp and he ate.
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Sanibel Kayaking
Florida Sportsman member: rkotinsky
Fan casted the area with my paddle tail jig and had a hit and miss from a good sized trout. Convinced that there had to be some big fish in the area I gave one last cast with my Rapala and it paid off with a solid hit and a big run towards the mangroves.
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Backcountry Camping and Fishing
Florida Sportsman member: Native21
We went back to the spot we originally worked and the poons were thick. We caught several more and jumped many more, the snook were mixed in as well so we were also pulling them out. We fished till about 4pm and made our way to our camp area.
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Skinny Water Bulls
Florida Sportsman member: cbmdk86
We actually had a sweet double hookup at this point but his pulled the hook. After a quick photo op with my fish, Neil was hooked up again within two minutes and after a half hour fight put his redzilla in the yak. The girth on his fish was unreal, it was 35 pounds plus and healthy.
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Negative Tides and Chewing Fish
Florida Sportsman member: SnookStack
I planned on scouting reds either tailing or pushing water on the flats. As I moved out onto the flat, I was instantly gratified by seeing a bunch of single reds pushing wakes and leaving evidence of redfish with trails of dust.
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Pine Island Trout and Reds
Florida Sportsman member: JoeyHotFizzle
Forum member JoeyHotFizzle shared his recent kayak trip, fishing in Pine Island. Throwing a mix of artificials, he was able to fool some nice trout and redfish. Nice work!
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Avoiding the Wind and Catching Fish
Florida Sportsman member: C Dog
Hard to describe my emotions when I saw it wasn’t a red, but it was the biggest trout I had ever seen.
I didn’t have a scale or a tape measure. But using my old bass fishing days as a reference, I would say it was a lunker at least 6 to 8 pounds, at least 26 inches, and fat!
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Glades Slam
Florida Sportsman member: Native21
Here are a few fish from the day that helped me catch a slam. Although the poons had me numbered I jumped about 10 and happened to land the micro but none the less a slam. Snook were everywhere in that spot and it seemed like every other cast I was hooking up.
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Kayak Bassin’
Florida Sportsman member: inshore dave
To say that the day was stellar is an understatement. Between Steve and I we caught over 75 fish. Most were dinks in the 1-2 pound range with a good mixing of 3 pounders too. We also caught fish from just over 4 pounds to the biggest caught by me at 8 pounds 6 ounces.
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Night Time Tarpon
Florida Sportsman member: frankthetank
I managed to come tight on a 50 to 60 pound fish that fought hard to get away. But after a long and intense fight, I got my picture and released the fish with good energy. After resetting the lines we had a few missed hits and with the last bait I hooked a monster over 150 but wasn’t prepared and after a minute long run my leader popped.
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Trying a New Spot
Florida Sportsman member: YaknYeti
I started working the islands in
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