Fishing report
Inshore– Captain Garett Hubbard was down on the dock watching the long range 39 hour offloading and decided to drop down some snapper carcasses while he waited within a few minutes he jumped two nice sized 100+lb Tarpon from the dock at Hubbard’s Marina. Mahlon Washington and his buddies have been fishing the docks around Hubbard’s Marina catching monster snook and even big grouper on live pigfish. The pompano bite seems to have subsided a little giving way to more whiting and silver trout being caught from the jetties. The beginning of the outgoing tides have produced the most as of late inside Johns Pass. The water clarity seems to have finally returned to beautiful after our wind event this past week, but on the strong outgoings the tail ends of the tides are still getting dirty especially on the recent full moon hill tides. The bait is thick inside the pass but still a little too small to fill your bait buckets, should be getting there soon!
Near shore– The mangrove snapper have been full lately due to that full moon. Our day trips are finding them stuff to the point of bursting, literally so full their scales are being pushed out and displaced due to their full bellies. However, light tackle and live shrimp have helped us continuing to be successful on this yummy snapper especially on our private charters. They grey snapper bite has been steady and going well for our half day party boat trips. The mackerel are still around near shore but the kings seem to be gone hiding in the cooler offshore waters or up in the northern gulf waiting for their fall return down our beaches. Triple tail action is great nearshore especially since the water has cleared making sight fishing for these yummy prehistoric looking fish even easier.
Offshore– Well yet again we bring nearly unbelievable exploits from our offshore fishing trips at Hubbard’s Marina! Just two days ago we landed the biggest wahoo ever caught on our party boats weighing in at 88.9lbs caught by Chad Andrews from Sarasota. He caught him on 40lb floro leader with 50lb braid on a dang spinning rod. This monster fish came up to our 12 hour party boat trip and Chad quickly grabbed his rod and a live pinfish and chucked this unlucky bait right into the jaws of this behemoth pelagic and before he knew it the wahoo took off like a rocket tail walking nearly 100 yards on the surface before sounding deep and nearly dumping the reel! After two long laps around the boat and ducking and weaving through our other anglers our experienced crew, captain and this happy angler who luckily was an expert as well landed this truly trophy pelagic fish! If that wasn’t enough to get you excited how about the story of young Haley Millsaps. She was fishing this recent 39 hour midweek trip with her father Ronnie and she was using basic snapper gear when she felt a small nibble and set the hook on what was probably a small red snapper or mangrove snapper. She began reeling this snapper off the bottom and before she got him ten cranks up she felt the hit of her life as a 34lb gag grouper started to dig back to bottom. With the help of our experienced crew and her father’s strong physique and a little bit of luck she was able to land this truly monster grouper! Check out our latest videos on Facebook as we have been doing video updates after each long range trip returns: https://www.facebook.com/hubbardsmarina/videos
Want to read the past reports? Check out this link: https://www.hubbardsmarina.com/hubbards-marina-fishing-reports/
Captain Jack’s dolphin corner
Ready for a relaxing sunset cruise with us at Hubbard’s Marina? These hour and a half cruises offer FREE beer and wine and take you through the protected Back Bay waters while showing you the sights and telling you details about the area. Then you get a chance to cruise the beautiful beaches as we watch the sunset from our front row seats to the left and the beautiful gulf beaches at golden hour to our right. For more info on the sunset cruise, visit this link: http://HubbardsMarina.com/sunset-cruise/
Baby dolphins are thriving inside Boca Ceiga bay! There’s now a handful of young dolphins playing together with large social groups inside our back bays. They can be spotted hunting in large herds right now corralling fish and then playing catch with the large fish to teach the younger dolphins how to use their sonar more efficiently. They also do this to ensure they can eat the fish head first. They do this to ensure the fish fins do not injure the dolphin’s digestive system. For more info on the dolphin watching nature cruise and eco tour at Hubbard’s Marina, check out this link: https://www.hubbardsmarina.com/dolphin-watching-cruises/
The ride to and from Egmont key on our Egmont key ferry has become very exciting this time of year with the ability to spot sea turtles, manatees, large schools of rays, and the occasional dolphin pod has greatly increased were often getting great wildlife shows on the way to or from the island paradise they call Egmont key! Plus, once on the island there’s snorkeling, shelling, and tons more fun in the sun activities. It’s a great way to spend the day with the family, and for more info check out this page: https://www.hubbardsmarina.com/egmont-key-ferry-cruise/
There’s also an osprey nest just of the coast of Egmont key where there’s a few hatchling ospreys hanging out in the nest getting larger by the day. These young birds of prey are still very formidable looking and are a great added sight for our lucky Egmont key ferry guests at Hubbard’s Marina from Fort De Soto Park.
The only bad news at Egmont key right now is that the recent tropical storm named Tropical Storm Colin has unfortunately washed away most if not all the skimmer’s nests and many of the sea turtles nests too! The rising rough waters easily reached their beach side nests and washed the eggs out of the sand pulling them off the beach and ruining the protection of the under sand nests. Luckily it seems it’s still early enough in the season that the birds and turtles will continue to lay more eggs and rebuild their nests.
Thanks to the crystal clear waters, snorkeling out at Egmont key is crazy fun right now we have such clear waters it’s the perfect time to join Hubbard’s Marina for some snorkeling fun at the island. To find out more about it, check out this link: https://www.hubbardsmarina.com/snorkeling-tours-tampabay/
The three hour shelling cruise has been coming back with piles and piles of great shells and the sights have been great to and from shell island as we cruise the back bays on the way to the island and down the beautiful gulf beaches on the return home from the island! If you’re ready for a short shelling visit to the island without spending your day in the sun visit Hubbard’s Marina for this 3 hour shelling adventure you get around a 2 hour boat tour of the gorgeous area and an hour of great shelling time on the pristine shell key preserve. To learn more about this great family-fun adventure, check out this page: https://www.hubbardsmarina.com/florida-shelling-cruise/
Upcoming up at Hubbard’s Marina
The NEW Flying HUB 2 is nearly here boys and girls and Hubbard’s Marina couldn’t be more excited! This special one of a kind fishing vessel will be the first of its kind in the nation and will be able to go up to 42MPH! Not only will this be so unique large and comfortable but it will also be able to take up to 24 anglers out to 20 miles, then 16 anglers out to 100, and up to 14 anglers out for deep drop fishing! Check out this video to see more about this new fishing machine: https://goo.gl/jP5hly
Tomorrow Saturday June 25th at 1pm Captain Mark Hubbard and Dylan Hubbard will be offering a FREE seminar on Gag grouper and red snapper fishing at the Tampa Bass Pro shops! Join them at 1pm to learn the best techniques to ensure you come home with a limit of these great eating and limited time snapper. They will not only be covering gag grouper and red snapper techniques but also much more, and if you would like to come with questions they will cater their seminar to what you want to hear! Plus, they will be doing a FREE raffle and if you attend the entire seminar you will have the chance to win a free 10 hour all day fishing trip if you win the raffle! Don’t forget to check out the Tampa Bass pro shops Facebook page and give them a like from all of us at Hubbard’s Marina since they were nice enough to add us to their pro staff team!
Red snapper season only has a few weeks left! These fish close on July 17th at 12:01am this means that you only have a narrow window left to get on these fish before they are no longer legally harvested. We have lots of 39 hours and 12 hours left on the party boats and we also have tons of private charter availability during the week if you want to grab a pile of red snapper!
Want a super light 39 hour fishing trip with Hubbard’s Marina? There’s multiple light loads coming up on Tuesday overnight trips and we also have a Sunday overnight coming early July with a super light load as well! If you want to miss the heavy weekend loads, check out the Tuesday overnight trips on 6/28 or 7/5 as well! There’s a light Sunday load on July 3rd too if you guys want to target red snapper while fishing a boat with plenty of room instead of a weekend trip that are more close to full capacities.
Want to stay up to date with the latest catches, reports and more from Hubbard’s Marina? Follow the new live video segments that Hubbard’s Marina is posting daily to Facebook! Also, more Instagram photos and videos are popping up too! Plus, were on the fishBrain app now too and they were nice enough to add Hubbard’s Marina as a fishing location so now on your future trips you can upload your catch to our location. If you have questions or want more info about all this message Dylan Hubbard on the Hubbard’s Marina Facebook page or shoot him an email: info@HubbardsMarina.com
Don’t forget that Hubbard’s Marina offers a very wide variety of private charters along with our party boat options. Many people don’t realize how many different boats and options we offer for these private excursions. At Hubbard’s Marina we have 4 smaller fishing vessels for charter than can take 1-6, 7-14 or 14-24 plus we have two large party boats that can allow 17-110 so no matter what your groups size and no matter where or how they want to fish or cruise we have the perfect charter options for you and your group no matter your size! Check out the options at this link, and fill out the form to get your very own detailed quote based on exactly what you’d like included and what you’d like to target: https://www.hubbardsmarina.com/private-charters/
Hubbard’s Marina offers 12 hour day trips or the special 39 hour fishing trips to target red snapper we even have one special 44 hour before the season closes! These special long range party boat trips they are very fun and unique hope you get a shot to get ‘hooked’ on deep water fishing at Hubbard’s Marina! To learn more about the trip, check out the updated site: https://www.hubbardsmarina.com/39hr-overnight-fishing-trip/
Keep in mind the 12 hour night trip does NOT target red snapper only mangrove snapper, gags, yellowtails and more!
Regular’s club
Regular’s club signups are coming to an end. If you fish more than 5, 10, 15 times a year or know someone who does let’s talk about getting you or your friends into the club before we close the ranks until 2017 club signups. Typically we do this around May each year so if you want to get someone signed up for discounts on the trips and other great benefits for fishing multiples times throughout the year then call Dylan Hubbard or email him today!
Dylan Hubbard
Vice president and Regular’s club manager Hubbard’s Marina
(727)393-1947 ext 306
