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Fishing report Inshore- This past week we have seen some great fish caught around the area like Tarpon, snook, redfish, flounder, pompano, whiting, sheepshead, mackerel and more! Eric Lhopitault from Ruskin was fishing around the Bradenton area early morning using light tackle from his kayak and soft plastics on a weighted twist lock hook to […]

Fishing report   Inshore- This past week has been a great week inshore with sheepshead, pompano, speckled trout, whiting, bonnet head sharks, snook, tarpon starting to show up and MORE! However, the fishing action has been a little hit and miss due to the weather. We had a low pressure last weekend and the bite […]

Fishing report Inshore- Doug Bryan, a St Petersburg local, and his buddies fish the Johns Pass Jetty and Johns Pass bridge area nearly daily. This past week they have been catching pompano, sheepshead, speckled trout, and whiting using live shrimp and a variety of lures. The water has been very murky this past week due […]

Fishing report Inshore- The sheepshead are biting well this past week around the pass. We’re seeing great action on the pompano still. Lots of mackerel in the pass and just off the beaches. Plus, the snook are still very prevalent around the passes and starting to head onto the beaches. Finally, the red fish are [...]

Fishing report Inshore– We are seeing lots of pompano, sheepshead, and a few mackerel around the pass. Plus, there’s the occasional trout and snook too! The pompano have been biting on the docs goofy jigs with a pink teaser or the ½ ounce Nekid ball jigs bounced just 6-8 inches above the sandy bottom along […]

Fishing report Inshore- Snook, pompano, and some sheepshead caught this past week around Johns Pass and the occasional mackerel too! Snook are starting to head back into the pass and onto the beaches as the water temps warm up and the bait schools show up more and more often. We are seeing most of the [...]

Fishing report   Inshore- Mackerel are showing up early this year and we have TONS of white bait around the pass. The snook are in the passes and on the beaches too. This past week some big snook were caught from the north Jetty of Johns Pass by Mahlon Washington and his buddies using swim […]

Fishing report Inshore- The beginning of this week was looking a lot like spring we had warming water temps nearly to the low 70’s and the water was super clear and ready to pop with spring time action. We had pompano moving in, snook starting to move onto beaches very early and the trout bite […]

Fishing report Inshore- The sheepshead bite this past week has been crazy! Brian Harris, our new bait expert at Hubbard’s Marina, is also a commercial fisherman and he’s been loading coolers up with nice sheepshead nearly daily using live fiddler crabs and drifting along the jetties of Johns Pass and Blinds pass. The whiting have [...]

Fishing report Inshore- Weather has warmed up quite a bit this past week and we are starting to see the signs of spring in the area as the snook gear up to swim back into the passes and the white bait shows up to get chased by mackerel and the pompano bite picks up as [...]