Weekend Fishing

Clearwater Beach and Hurricane Pass, Well the fishing has really turned on and anywhere you go should be good. We decided to check out Clearwater Pass and the markers we hit the #1 Marker and had some great luck. After Baiting up we caught about 4 Spanish Mackerel on light colored Jigs and silver rattle Traps. Then we decided to move towards Hurricane Pass and try some inshore flats for trout. but on the way we thought we would troll for some larger spanish macks. We hooked up with about 4 more macks some up to 20". Once inshore we hooked into some trout and even a Cobia hit our small live shrimp. And we ended up landing a 4 ft. Bonnet Shark (Hammerhead family). The fishing is picking up and we're staying on them. Reports we have are of Tarpon schooling and rolling near the skyway and inner bay bridges. Red fish and trout are all over the flats. Permit are on the closer wrecks hitting smaller crabs. Pompano are on the beaches. Large King fish are on the inner side of Egmont Key. Spanish Macks are all along the Beaches. Tight Lines

Dunedin Causeway

SNOOK, on top water....At least thats what we photographed and released. We were after Reds or Trout but landed two nice SNOOK. One was 25 inches and the other was 34.5 inches. The biggest Snook I ever caught! but they were hitting topwaters and the fights were fantastic. Headin out again Thursday Evening same area. Pictures are posted in my pictures area under 34 and a half incher.... Tight Lines

Clearwater Beach Fishing

We headed out of Seminole Boat ramp and thought we would just play around on the beaches and fish a little. We had a Live well full of shrimp and we really were looking to catch some flounder. We also wanted to catch a few Blue Runners in the event we made it the top of Honeymoon Island we could do a little shark fishing. So we headed straight for the last marker out of Clearwater pass and circling around the marker were about 6 keeper sized Cobia. We immediately through a few live shrimp towards them. But the Cobia were'nt the only thing in the water I was lucky and landed about a 19" Spanish mackerel and then we hooked a few Flounder. The rest of our hits cut our line immediately since we weren't expecting the Spanish to be that thick we weren't running wire leaders. The Cobia were more reluctant or should I say elusive. We did hook a few Blue runners though and we headed for the beaches. We ended up in Hurricane Pass and wade fished. We landed another Flounder and About 5 fish that looked like a type of drum but were extremely silver and had a black marking on the back of the top tip of their Tail. I will post pictures when I get them downloaded. Seems like the fishing is picking up and this next weekend shoudl eb one of the best yet. Tight Lines

Total Fish Caught by all fisherman on the 34 hour trip (picture included)
All Fish Caught. This is the total of the fish caught on the trip.

Hubbard's Marina 34 Hour trip

30 Mangroves, 2 Grouper and an Amber Jack (picture Included)
With My 10 Mangroves and My Buddy's 19 mangroves and one American Red we had a Very Full stringer. Not to Mention the 30lb Amberjack and two Gags

Hubbard's Marina Deep Sea Fishing trip (34 hour)

Hubbard's Marina Deep Sea Fishing trip
This trip was very productive and as you can see we caught fish and so did all the other fisherman that went. The Mangroves were really hitting good. Anyone that wants to go on a Hard Core Fishing Trip needs to check out the Hubbard's Marina 34 hour trip. View the link on the side of the site to go directly to the Hubbard's Marina Web Site.

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