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Tampa Bay Sept. 6 Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay Sept. 6 Fishing Report Hi everyone, I know it’s been a while since my last report, I guess the dog days of summer are making me lazy. Really the truth is after a long Tarpon season I try to take a little time off and reorganize the equipment. I still have been out there quite a bit this summer, ri...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: August Grouper & Snapper Fishing Good
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Monday morning, 8/12/13, father and son anglers Bruce and Mike Epstein fished with me 22 miles west of New Pass, where they used pinfish for grouper fishing and live shrimp for snappers. The guys did well, catching four keeper red grouper, one at 21 inches, two at 26 inches, and one at 27 inches. They al...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Fishing Awesome Offshore!
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Tuesday morning, 7/30/13, I headed 22 miles off Naples with Brian Ritter and his daughter, Danni, joined by their friends Bill Sands and his daughter, Alissa. We used live shrimp to catch twenty keeper lane snapper along with one keeper yellowtail snapper at 14 inches. Danni used a pinfish to land a k...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Grouper & Yellowtail Bite Hot!
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Paul McConnell and family had planned to fish offshore with me on both Tuesday, 7/2/13 and Friday 7/5. We nixed Tuesday’s trip, as our weather was stormy for four consecutive days, Sunday, 6/30 through Wednesday morning, 7/3. After that, the continual rains quit, but with numerous lingering thund...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Stormy Conditions 1st Day of Gag Season
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Well, anglers awaiting the re-opening of gag grouper season are disappointed here today, with 3-5 foot seas and stormy conditions…let’s hope weather improves quickly! Chris & Jenny Phillips and their three teen-aged children, Emily, Bradley and Ryan, fished 18 miles out of New Pass with me...
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Tampa Bay July 1 Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay July 1 Fishing Report Hello from Anna Maria everyone. Rain has run me off the water today so I finally got a chance to do a fishing report. As always at this time of year most of my fishing reports are made up of mostly Tarpon, because for the most part it’s all I fish for. Up until the last few d...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Red Grouper, Snapper, Cobia, Shark, Redfish, Pompano
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I fished Saturday, 6/1, and I headed offshore about 36 miles west of New Pass to fish in 71 feet with Craig Daniels, Chip Lehman, and friends Bubba and Paul. We had a great day of fishing in good conditions. We used shrimp and squid to catch most everything, except the grouper, which bit grunts. The guys l...
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Tampa Bay June 1 Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay June 1 Fishing Report Tarpon, Tarpon, Tarpon, it’s about all I fish for this time of year. I wake up for some reason this time of year every morning, look at the alarm clock & it shows 4 am. “Awesome one more hour of sleep, (1 1/2 till I am in my tower casting to Tarpon), then I fall back to sl...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Kingfish, Grouper, Snapper, Shark; Redfish, Black Drum, Sheepshead Inshore
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Monday, 5/13/13, I fished the backwaters of Estero Bay with David Bloomfield and David Price. Using live shrimp, the guys caught three redfish, two of which were keepers at 19 ½ and 20 inches. They also caught two 14-inch sheepshead and a 15-inch black drum. They released mangrove snapper shorts. T...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Red Grouper Offshore; Redfish Inshore
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Monday, 4/29/13, seas were supposed to be two-to three feet, out to sixty miles, when I headed offshore with Scott Savaraid and four of his friends. But it was a lot rougher than that, in windy conditions, and we ventured out to 18 miles, where the group used live shrimp to catch fifteen keeper lane snap...
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TAMPA BAY MAY 1 FISHING REPORT
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Tampa Bay May 1 Fishing Report We just had one great week of fishing this past week, inshore and offshore I mixed it up about 50/50. We caught fish everywhere and every stop and a lot of them. We are in & out of summer time patterns now with a light wind out of the East, calm in the afternoon and then a se...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Nice Red Grouper, Hogfish, Kingfish & Snapper
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Monday, 4/15, I fished twenty miles west of New Pass with Richard Pyper and friends, Steve, Craig and Carey. The guys used live shrimp to catch twenty-five lane snapper to 14 inches, a half-dozen whitebone porgy keepers to 14 inches, and ten grunts, all about 12 inches. They released fifteen red grou...
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Tampa Bay April 20 Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay April 20 Fishing Report Typical April fishing means everything is biting, just got in from a three quarter day charter with a single person, we landed 30 plus Snook and were heading in by 1 in the afternoon. The past two days before I spent offshore. We just absolutely destroyed the King fi...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Red Grouper Season is On!
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Monday, April 1st was the first day of red grouper season re-opening, and I headed out to fish in spots 28 miles and 36 miles west of New Pass with Ron Lash, Kelley Wood, Peter Vitale, and their friends Bob and John. We used a few different live baits—shrimp, pinfish and grunts—to catch a bunch of fish of a...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Nice Reds Inshore; Grouper & Snapper Offshore
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Monday, 3/18/13, I fished about 19 miles west of New Pass with Chris Ernberger, his son, Carter, Chris’ dad, Jerry Ernberger, and friends Greg and Spencer. The group used live shrimp to catch five nice sheepshead, all 15 and 16 inches, four whitebone porgies, all around 14 inches, two keeper mangrov...
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Tampa bay fishing report with captain Matt Ercoli
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Tampa fishing charters report a www.captainmatt.com Hello from Anna Maria Island. Spring fishing Started off great then we had a few fronts to deal with, but we manned up fished through all of them and still had great fishing. Despite recovering water temperatures the fishing remains strong. ...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Big Drum, Grouper, Plentiful Snapper
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Finally, a day with warmer temps, light winds and calm seas—That was just what frequent customers Ron Musick, Eddie Alfonso, and Dick Arnett were hoping for on Tuesday, 3/5, when we headed out to fish about twelve miles west of New Pass, with a bait-well full of live shrimp. And, what a glorious day it t...
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Tampa Bay March 10 Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay March 10 Fishing Report Hello from Anna Maria. Whew! I think that was our last real cold blast for the year. It was a good one too. I think it was some of the coldest water I fished all winter. Strange that it came in March. We had to grind it out for a few days while it put the spring action on th...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Near-shore Reefs Productive
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03/04/13- SW FL-Bonita Beach: Near-shore Reefs ProductiveAfter a cancelled trip on Monday, I got out fishing Tuesday, 2/19, as winds and seas finally began to calm down from their week-long highs of 30 knot gusts and 4-12 foot seas. It was still a little sloppy so I stayed near-shore, about 12 miles o...
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Tampa Bay March Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay March Fishing Report Hello everyone, Capt Matt here from Anna Maria, just giving a quick update. Spring fishing has been in full swing, Snook, Redfish and Trout have been phenomenal. I have had some 70 plus fishing days on Snook and Redfish, if that is a good enough indication. The Trout...
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Tampa Bay Late February Report
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Tampa Bay Fishing Report 2/24/13 Late February fishing and we did very good with Snook yesterday. We landed 37 Snook, 6 Redfish and a few Trout. The largest Snook was about 28 inches the largest Red about 26 and the largest Trout about 23 inches. The water is reaching the low 70’s and the fishing is...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: If only the winds would stop...
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Monday, 2/4, I headed offshore with Barry Pflueger and friends. I hadn’t been offshore in nearly a week, due to rough conditions out there. Seas were still fairly choppy early on, but they calmed down by mid-morning. Fishing was kind of slow although, if it weren’t for grouper season closing, we migh...
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Anna Maria February Fishing Report
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Anna Maria February Fishing Report It has been great the last few days of fishing. The flats have been on fire. Water temps have been getting in the low 70s on the shallow flats, the magic number for killer flats fishing. The big three have all been biting; a ton of Snook, some really nice Redfish and...
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Tampa Bay February Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay February Fishing Report I hope you are out there enjoying this weather, I mean it just can’t get any nicer. I just stopped over at the beach to meet up with a couple of friends after I got done fishing today and I just can’t believe how beautiful the Gulf is. I spent the morning in the bay catchin...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Plenty of Grouper in Closed Season!
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After cancelling six consecutive fishing trips, due to weather conditions offshore and red tide in the bays, I finally got to fish again on Thursday, 1/24.I headed out about 18 miles from new Pass with Ron Musick, Eddie Alfonse and Jack Dee. Fishing was a little slow, perhaps due to the cold nights we e...
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Tampa Bay January Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay January Fishing Report Hello from sunny Anna Maria. I must start my report out talking about the weather. I think this is without a doubt one of the nicest winters I can ever remember in my 18 years of running charters. The weather has been so spectacular it often leaves me with the feeling...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Lots of Action & a 20-inch Hogfish!
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Tuesday, 1/8, I headed well offshore, 37 miles west of New Pass, with frequent customer Ron Musick and friends, Eddie Alfonso, Dick Arnett and Ralph Lussluer. We had a good day fishing with live shrimp, and the guys landed four keeper red grouper, 21 ½ inches, 22 ½ inches, 24 inches and the prize winner...
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SW FL-Bonita Beach: Winter Fishing Lookin' Good!
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After Wednesday's trip on 12/19, our weather began deteriorating, with a very windy, cold front that arrived late Thursday into Friday and Saturday. I cancelled my offshore trip for Friday with the Graham family, but I was able to reschedule that for a bay trip with them the morning of Christmas Eve...
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Tampa Bay New Year Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay New Year Fishing Report It seems like it was only a few months ago since I wrote a New Years fishing report. It really is amazing how fast time flies, especially when you are busy doing something you enjoy. I can’t believe this year will mark my 18th year as a charter captain and another year...
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Tampa Bay Christmas Fishing Report
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Tampa Bay Christmas Fishing Report Hi everyone, it sure doesn’t feel like Christmas around here. I didn’t look at the temperature but I would say it must have been in the high 70’s this afternoon. I’ll take it, great fishing weather; calm, warm and lightly cloudy and it’s been that way all fall into...
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