Gregg McKee sent in a portrait of a juvenile, but too-big-to-boat tarpon that slurped a shrimp in Pine Island Creek. After which he found more willing snook farther south, nearer the Miserable Mile channel. That was OK with him, but the bite slowed there. Saturday’s start was also auspicious for Hunter Leake, who was hoping for a redfish in south Matlacha Pass when his first fling of a live thread herring was intercepted by a 31-inch snook. In Southwest Florida over the past week, red tide was observed at, background to low concentrations in Sarasota County, background to very low concentrations in Charlotte County, background to very low concentrations in and offshore of Lee County, and background to very low concentrations in Collier County.ĭJ Mercale cast a glass minnow pattern Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow into his secret hole Saturday, near Pine Island’s Jug Creek, and pulled out this plum of a 32-inch snook.ĭJ Mercale reports high tide at his secret honey hole (near Jug Creek, west of Matlacha Pass) produced a 32-inch snook that mistook his glass minnow Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow for the real deal on Saturday.He wisely opted to leave it in the water. Larry Sherman was catching blue runners for bait, in 50 feet of water off Sanibel, when this spotted moray jumped on his jig.Elephants eat peanuts, and this tarpon, “too big to bring in the boat,” ate a live shrimp in Pine Island Creek on a Wildfly Charter with Capt.Fox Trot, Alabama angler Wyatt Cullom used a live wild shiner to tempt this dandy Big O bass, on his trip with Roland Martin Marina &Resort Capt.North Port Dick’s Sporting Goods fishing department manager Ken Taylor notes Jaxton Desguin’s rootbeer jerkbait was the perfect choice for pitching in the tannin stained waters around Punta Gorda docks.DJ Mercale cast a glass minnow pattern Yo-Zuri Crystal Minnow into his secret hole Saturday, near Pine Island’s Jug Creek, and pulled out this plum of a 32-inch snook.Hunter Leake’s first cast with a live threadfin in south Matlacha Pass could hardly have started better than with this 31-inch snook.Exotic Mayan cichlids, now prevalent in almost all of Southwest Florida’s freshwater systems, are as fun to catch and good to eat as they are good looking.Michael Uhaize was using live worm gobs to catch Mayan cichlids in his south Fort Myers neighborhood when this nice bass horned in on the action.Bonita Springs angler Mark Cecil’s 27-inch May day redfish preceded a 25-1/2-incher he caught May 2, on Estero Bay charters with Get Hooked Capt.

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