Fishing? Where's the bite

sorry mate, been home tending the fishies in da cold - can't wait to go if this freezing crap would just stop for ONE weekend! unbelieveable!

how far can you go offshore (or do you)? i may have a couple of coords for you to try (if I can't get there first) - picked them up from a guy last week who assures me the fish are stacked like cordwood at these two locs (yeah, right)

strickly yakkin, so shallows or mile or two offshore...tried both this week but no luck...headin over to west bay later this morning

i'll pm (no sense in throwing a party) the coords to you tomorrow am (forgot them today, sorry :oops: ) when i can put my frozen mitts on them.

Try dragging some chartreuse/orange stretch Rapalas between 4-5 knots along the outer sandbar edges......it's not the most exciting fishing perhaps, but it certainly produces. Once you find the school, you can begin targeting them with light tackle grubs, jigs and even topwater poppers and flies. Once they begin to see enough activity, it's no problem to get them to the surface. There have also been some pretty reliable fishing around the cones (near the pass) as well as around the mouth of Joe's Bayou. These reds have been pretty much within the 25-40 lb. bracket, but if you want to find some keeper sized reds, try the back of Destin Harbour, there have been some 3-5 lb. guys back in there.

I would post some photos of the past few weeks, but my photos are too large. You may have to trust me on this........I hope it helps. Good luck.

Try dragging some chartreuse/orange stretch Rapalas between 4-5 knots along the outer sandbar edges......it's not the most exciting fishing perhaps, but it certainly produces. Once you find the school, you can begin targeting them with light tackle grubs, jigs and even topwater poppers and flies. Once they begin to see enough activity, it's no problem to get them to the surface. There have also been some pretty reliable fishing around the cones (near the pass) as well as around the mouth of Joe's Bayou. These reds have been pretty much within the 25-40 lb. bracket, but if you want to find some keeper sized reds, try the back of Destin Harbour, there have been some 3-5 lb. guys back in there.

I would post some photos of the past few weeks, but my photos are too large. You may have to trust me on this........I hope it helps. Good luck.

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We would like to see some pics!

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We would like to see some pics!

I second that!

These were caught 12/31/05. A few of them have been through my digestive system - yummy!

Ended up findin plenty of action in the creeks of NW West Bay...plenty of fat slot sizers ready to eat...hung on to one of my bigger keepers and ran into the game warden while loading the yak...of course, all legal...Red

Did you put in at Burnt Mill Creek?

Yeah, pretty good place...however, a long shallow paddle to go finally east or west...seems there's a good road system around that area...probably find a different place further south to put in...Red

My daughter found a dead dolphin on the bay beach from us, and we called game and fish. The Emerald Coast Wildlife people came out Monday and did tissue samples, and buried it. They said it was number 16 for the last 10 days or so. We have had numerous fish kills since Katrina, is there anything left? She also found a message in a bottle from Ohio, on our bay beach, after the storm. Amazing how it got from there to here. Down the Mississippi, into the Gulf, into the bay. Don't know if I want to eat much local fish!

My daughter found a dead dolphin on the bay beach from us, and we called game and fish. The Emerald Coast Wildlife people came out Monday and did tissue samples, and buried it. They said it was number 16 for the last 10 days or so. We have had numerous fish kills since Katrina, is there anything left? She also found a message in a bottle from Ohio, on our bay beach, after the storm. Amazing how it got from there to here. Down the Mississippi, into the Gulf, into the bay. Don't know if I want to eat much local fish!

Fear not, the 'powers that be' have been monitoring the waters and seafood stocks ever since the storms hit last summer. All is well and has been well for many months.http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2005/NEW01271.html


I am intrigued by the message in the bottle; how old was it? :lol:

My daughter found a dead dolphin on the bay beach from us, and we called game and fish. The Emerald Coast Wildlife people came out Monday and did tissue samples, and buried it. They said it was number 16 for the last 10 days or so. We have had numerous fish kills since Katrina, is there anything left? She also found a message in a bottle from Ohio, on our bay beach, after the storm. Amazing how it got from there to here. Down the Mississippi, into the Gulf, into the bay. Don't know if I want to eat much local fish!

Yesterday's Destin Log had a story of a Dolphin and Manatee found dead in the Bay near Eglin AFB property. No reports on cause of death. Manatee are on the endangered species list so I am sure biologists will be looking into the cause of death.