It the season for the Running of the Bulls, are you ready for some Red Fish action! Even though there are still other fish to catch the anticipation of seeing the big schools of Bull Red Fish sometimes numbering in the thousands all up on the surface in a major feeding frenzy is just too much. I’ve seen it a hundred times it still makes my heart rate go up a few notches.
I got on a nice size school of several hundred fish in the bay last Thursday; so there are some in the bay now. I’ve been catching them out on the beach and in the passes for the last three to four weeks just not in the major big schools yet. It won’t be long before you’ll be able to find them with a lot more ease.
The weather has been real good for us the last three weeks and is looking good for the next seven days. There are still lots of Big Spanish around, Kings in Pensacola Bay up by the port and 3-mile bridge. There’s been a lot of nice Bay Grouper caught over the last week to ten days. I haven’t been lucky enough to catch any over five pounds but I’ve heard of several over fifteen pounds being caught.
Slot sized Red Fish are on the docks in good number right now, so if the bays are rough get on the lee side of the sound and hit the deeper docks with live shrimp and you’ll catch a limit of Red Fish in a hurry.
Flounder are on the move to their spawning grounds. Several of my friends that do a lot of gigging have been going pretty regular over the last two weeks they are still not killing a lot of them but it’s getting better and with this recent cold front passing through I’ll bet it’s going to be better.
The Speckled Trout are on the move too. They’re up on the flats in the three to six foot of water ambushing the big schools of LY’s and finger Mullet that are moving through. Use live bait to match or big Mullet type plugs.
You Fly Fishermen need to be ready; the next thirty days is going to go by fast. Now is the time to experience a thrill of a lifetime. A nine or ten weight rod, floating line with a nine foot long leader a twenty five pound test fluorocarbon tippet with a deceiver tied on the end will catch these fish with ease.
This is a great place that I live in; I love to share its beauty with other anglers alike. Give me a call and let’s enjoy the offerings that are here for the taking.
Thanks for reading my reports.
Have a blessed day!
Capt. Eddie