After a weekend of great weather, offshore anglers cleaned house on the red snapper and gag grouper. The consensus was grouper at 30 to 40 feet and red snapper 40 plus. Close in the bite was not as good, the shallow rocks are holding grunts, spanish mackerel, sea bass and a few mangrove snappers. The deep grass out at the ten foot range is holding some trout that are hitting dark colored soft plastics on a red 1/8 oz. jig head. Let the bait fall near the bottom and retrieve it with a vertical twitch like a shrimp coming out of the grass.
Redfishing on the incoming high tide has been ok. Live pinfish is the best bait. This weekend is the Annual Cobia Big Fish tournament out of MacRae’s of Homosassa. I wish there was a ryme or reason to catching cobia, but I’ve found most cobia that I’ve caught has been when I was fishing for other species. Being prepared for the opportunity is key. Having that heavy spinning rod ready when fishing structure for bottom fish is a good plan. Grouper rods with cranked down drags will loose big cobia and having the spinning rod ready when a cobia appears on the surface is easier to cast then a conventional rod. Incoming high tide will be in the morning this weekend.
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