8/23/2014 + 8/24/2014 Hot! Hot! Hot! So Hot!

Boatless Fishing reports for the Hillsborough County - Tampa Area - Also the countys of Citrus - Hernando - Pasco - Pinellas - Manatee - Sarasota - Desoto
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tears143
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8/23/2014 + 8/24/2014 Hot! Hot! Hot! So Hot!

Post by tears143 »

Man, once you hit 10-11am and it's hot... crazy hot at 12pm. Today is the worst... heat index of 108! Anyways time for the report. Heard people were slaying mackerel out there... 40 mackerel to one group? 0.o

8/23/2014

As usual, got there before sunrise and on my third cast, bam, a pompano. Pull it up and measure it... shy of 11" back he goes. Thinking to myself, it's going to be a great pompano day! about every 30 - 45mins, I would get a pompano, until I landed 3. Then while jigging bam! The line started peeling off my spool really fast. Thinking to myself, score! Must be a permit that's running like this. 50yds later, it stopped and I started pumping it back in. When it got next to the bridge, I saw a flash in the water. Damn! It's a stringray. >.<

It ran into the pilling and I pull it out and I landed it. Other than that, I caught a jack, sheephead.

The macks and mangrove snapper were all over the places chowing down on 1" greenies. The group next to me were slaying them!

Total for 8/23/2014
3 keeper pompano, 1 smaller one.
1 jack
1 stringray
1 Sheephead

Most of the bites are before 11am.
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8/24/2014
Got there before sunrise and I am really for the mackerel and snapper this time. I just bought a new castnet for bait!
About 45 mins to an hr, bam pompano hook up. Darn... it's a tad short. >.< See a bunch of mackerel and snapper eating the bait fish again. I then get a good amount of greenies for chum and bait. Then I keep on continue fishing for pompano until it's the tide that I wanted. Every now a then, I would throw a hand full into the water to see if the mackerel are around yet but they don't seems to be yet. I kept fishing and ended up landing 2 keeper pompano.

The other group that was slaying them yesterday came. I joined them and fished for snapper and mackerel. We slayed them today as well. I got my limit of snapper and got out of there... So hot!
The mackerel are here at skyways people! Get out there and catch them up!
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fishboy
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Post by fishboy »

Sweet catch!! The bite was on fire in my area too this weekend....

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shos260288
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Nice mix of fish. Looks like the West coast is on fire :cheers:
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tears143
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What did you catch fishboy?

Mullet run should be happening soon over there.

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Rare
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Nice report....How big were the macks and greys?
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Rare wrote:Nice report....How big were the macks and greys?
most grey were just above 10" 10-13" but I saw a few 15+".

Macks were mix bag, 15 - 20+" most were around the 18- 19"

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fishboy
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Yeah the water is loaded with mullet it seems to have started early this year. In 2 hours on Friday night my dad and I got our limits of mangroves from 10 to 14" and we lost 4 monsters, 2 that were definitely 15"+ to the structure. Hopefully the fishing remains good... Tight lines!

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Post by STRIZ »

Awesome :toast:

Nice report. Yummy catch
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Post by fishnfool73 »

Nice report and it means the kings and bonies are not far behind.
Dreaming the dream that one day I can be as good as some of the boatless pros and catch some 12 inch mangrove snapper.

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Cant wait... I NEED to make it up there finally!

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Looking like I'll be up there around the 13th of Sept, keep the reports coming if you keep killing it up there.

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Post by HumanClaymore »

Figures, the first weekend in forever where I simply couldn't get out to fish. I'll be hitting it up this weekend for sure though.
Nice job as always, Tears! I doubt I'll make Skyway this weekend, but it's coming soon
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pretty solid
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Post by snapperfanatic18 »

awesome catch u put together there bro!!! great report!

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