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Tampa Offshore Trip
2007-09-10 16:04:00 So, Saturday started as a typical 5 a.m to 9 a.m. Pass-A-Grille Merry Pier day. Mike and I managed a few foot long snapper, and were about to call it a day when Cap’t. Andy of the Getaway approached. Seems they’d had a last minute cancellation, and they were looking to fill a couple of ... More About: Trip , Offshore , Tampa
Opening Day of Snook Season
2007-09-04 16:22:00 I met Mike on a crowded Merry Pier at 3ish on September 1st, anticipating some snook action. Of course, after seeing schools of slot sized snook stacked up around the pier for the last couple of months, they all mysteriously vanished when the bell went off for snook season. And that wasn’t all…. the fishing had ... More About: Season , Opening , Seas , Nook
Tampa Tarpon!
2007-08-27 18:24:00 I headed out to the Merry Pier in Pass-A-Grill before the crack of dawn on Sunday, still determined to find a 22″+ grouper. I was joined at around 6 a.m. by my friend David, who was in from Denver. David is a very experienced fisherman, and we’ve fished together coutless times. All in all, we ... More About: Tampa , Tarpon
Moonlight Snapper Fishing in Tampa Bay
2007-08-27 17:36:00 Another August weekend, another nice snapper haul from the Merry Pier in St. Pete Beach. I arrived promptly at 5:00 a.m., and Mike joined me just minutes later. Armed with cut frozen Spanish Sardines, we went to work on the rokpiles at te north end of the pier. The snapper were aggressive and big. We ... More About: Fishing , Snapper , Moonlight , Tampa , Tampa Bay
Another Weekend, Another Limit of Snapper?.
2007-08-20 15:29:00 The mango frenzy continues unabated. Arriving a couple hours before sunup, a five fish limit of tasty 12-15″ snapper is almost a given nowdays. Plenty of hard fighting grouper mixed in, too. The big ones are measuring 20″… still no keepers, but the laws of probability state that I’m due any day now. The key to ... More About: Snapper , Weekend
Tampa Fishing Guide - 1 Year Anniversary
2007-08-15 17:21:00 Hey - I just realized that Tampa Fishing .net is now over 1 year old! Lots of fishing trips, lots of good times, lots of fun with great friends. Looking forward to even bigger and better things in year 2. Steve More About: Anniversary , Guide , Year
Boca Ciega Snapper Fishing
2007-08-13 19:27:00 An early start was the key to limiting out on tasty Tampa Bay mangrove snapper this weekend. I arrived at Merry Pier on 8th Avenue in St. Pete Beach at around 5 a.m., loaded up with frozen spanish sardines. The plan was to nail a few big grouper, but the snapper were so thick, the ... More About: Fishing , Snapper , Shin , Boca
Early Morning Tampa Bay Fishing
2007-08-06 16:42:00 Somehow, I convinced myself that getting up at 3 a.m. to do a little fishing made perfect sense. Hey, the tide’s high, the current should be strong, it won’t be too hot… Anyway, I arrived at Merry Pier in the wee hours Friday night/ Saturday morning, to be joined by Mike. Yeah, there were snook around, ... More About: Fishing , Morning , Early , Tampa , Shin
Tampa Bay Grouper Fishing
2007-07-30 15:30:00 So, I decided to beat the heat this weekend by showing up at the Merry Pier in St. Pete Beach prior to sunrise. The snook were swarming under the lights, bait was thick, and the fish were biting. Using cut, frozen Spanish sardines, I caught and released about a dozen gag grouper on Saturday, with a ... More About: Fishing , Grouper , Tampa , Shin , Tampa Bay
Tampa Fishing Update
2007-07-22 22:26:00 The small snapper have invaded St. Pete Beach. I fished Saturday and Sunday on the Merry Pier at 8th Avenue in Pass-A-Grille, and it was impossible to escape the small Mangos that seemed to be everywhere. While this is good news for this Fall, it’s kinda’ a pain today. Mike joined me Saturday, and we caught ... More About: Fishing , Update , Tampa , Shin
St. Pete Beach Florida Fishing Report
2007-07-16 14:42:00 So, I head down to the Merry Pier in St. Pete Beach bright and early Saturday morning, and to my surprise, I’m greeted by my colleague Mike. He’s already caught a nice snook with a DOA shrimp on the 7th Avenue Pier. We bought several dozen handpicked shrimp, and got to work. I was quickly broken ... More About: Fishing , Report , Florida
Summer Fishing in Tampa
2007-07-09 21:35:00 The weekend was too short, and involved WAY too little fishing. My friend Jim was here from Orlando with his wife and kid. We spent a couple of hours on Merry Pier. The tides were sluggish (we’re between moon phases), but we still managed a few decent fish. We used live shrimp to catch a ... More About: Summer , Fishing , Tampa , Shin
4th of July Fishing in St. Pete Beach
2007-07-05 16:03:00 Spent a few hours on the Merry Pier Wednesday. Turns out there was a problem with the live shrimp delivery… long story short, there were no live shrimp, and I didn’t feel like making the run up to Gulf to Bay Bait and Tackle. So, I bought a box of frozen spanish sardines, just to ... More About: Beach , Fishing , July , Pete , Shin
Full Moon Snapper Trip
2007-07-02 15:26:00 What a weekend. It started Friday, when I hit the Merry Pier in St. Pete Beach between about 6-8 p.m. Rain was falling, and lightning cracked in the distance- but the snook were wide awake. I had at least a dozen hookups, with three landed (28, 30, and 32 inches). Bait was thick, and the ... More About: Full Moon , Moon , Snapper , Trip , Full
Tampa Summer Fishing
2007-06-25 15:46:00 Summer’s here, and dock days are getting hot- both the weather and the fishing. I had the pleasure of meeting Big Mike on the Merry Pier in St. Pete Beach on Saturday. By the time I arrived, Big Mike had already caught and released dozens of mangrove snapper- mostly small, but still fun to catch. ... More About: Summer , Fishing , Tampa , Shin
Tampa Offshore Fishing Report
2007-06-17 15:37:00 June 17, 2007- I ventured offshore yesterday aboard the Getaway with friends Matt, his father Tom (Happy Fathers Day!) and Cap’t Dick. We departed the Merry Pier in Pass-A-Grille at 7:30, and headed west. Conditions were ideal- a light breeze and scattered cloud cover, just enough to keep it from getting too hot. The first stop ... More About: Fishing , Report , Offshore , Tampa , Shin
Tampa Bay Snapper Season
2007-06-04 15:08:00 Saturday fishing was a bust, thanks to tropical storm Barry. The lower sections of Merry Pier were literally underwater, as the storm tides peaked in the early afternoon. Sunday was a different story. My buddy Tim cruised in from Tampa with a bucket of shrimp, and we proceeded to have an excellent afternoon of fishing. Upon ... More About: Snapper , Season , Seas , Tampa Bay
Merry Pier Fishing
2007-05-28 13:35:00 The Merry Pier in Pass-A-Grille provided some great fishing this weekend. Plenty of variety, steady action… and the Pier was surprisingly uncrowded for Memorial Day wwekend. Snapper- The snaps are back! After a long hiatus, the mangrove snapper are beginning to return to their haunts in the shadows under the Pier. It’s still very early in ... More About: Fishing , Shin
Inshore Variety
2007-05-21 16:31:00 So, on Saturday I headed over to my friend Walter’s dock in Treasure Island for a little fishing and drinking. Tossing live shrimp into the channel produced immediate results, and surprising variety. One cast would be a Jack Cravelle; the next a mangrove snapper; and the next would be a big ladyfish. So it went… ... More About: Variety
Tampa Tarpon
2007-05-17 14:53:00 Made a quick stop this morning at Blind Pass (by Woody’s Restaurant in St. Pete Beach). There was a commotion in the pass, with a strong incoming tide. At first I thought it was a school of dolphin, but…no it was a pod of about a dozen 50-80 pound tarpon rolling away. Looks like the ... More About: Tampa , Tarpon
Smoke on the Water
2007-05-14 15:54:00 Despite the hazy, smoky conditions, I hit the East end of Corey Avenue on Saturday with my friend Tim, looking for sheepshead, snook and macks. I did manage two out of three- with no sign of snook. Got a bizzare fish- it looked like a sheepshead/ pinfish cross. That was a first! Also, out on ... More About: Smoke , Water
Macks & Jacks
2007-05-07 19:49:00 Got in a few hours both Saturday and Sunday- nothing spectacular, just steady action. The spanish mackarel were cooperative, as were both large and small Jack Cravelle. There were a few sheepshead around, but they weren’t biting. I hooked a monster snook under the dock, but it made short work of my 20 lb. SpiderWire. ...
South Pinellas Fishing Report
2007-05-03 23:31:00 A few quick observations: -At the east end of Corey Avenue in St. Pete Beach, bait is beginning to show on the grass flats and around the old Leverock’s dock. I saw a school of a few dozen 10-15 pound Jack Cravelle tearing them up yesterday, while a pair of large snook came in and cleaned ... More About: Fishing , Report , South , Repo , Nella
Last Chance for Snook
2007-04-30 15:48:00 The clock winds down on Spring 2007 snook season at midnight tonight. So… maybe… I’ll watch 24, then grab the sturdy equipment and head out. Hey, 90 minutes should be plenty of time… doncha’ think? More About: Chance , Chan , Nook
Tampa Snook Season Winds Down
2007-04-23 21:21:00 One more weekend to go…. And I plan to make the most of it. ‘Course, you already know how it’ll go. No snook to be had. Then, as soon as May 1 hits, they’ll be everywhere- and hungry. Heard one of the employees at The Merry Pier in Pass-A-Grille managed to best a 42″ snook on ... More About: Season , Down , Tampa , Winds , Seas
Edgmont Channel Kingfish
2007-04-15 16:30:00 There weren’t any. Plain and simple. The Spanish Mackeral were there, as were the big blue runners that kept attacking our slow trolled squid spoons… just no sign of the King s. I joined my friend Allen, who was in from Kentucky, along with his daughter Hannah for some ’serious’ fishing on Saturday. Our plan for inshore ... More About: Fish , Channel , Anne , Chan
Easter Snook
2007-04-09 17:36:00 Just a quick note- I braved the crappy weather this weekend for a few hours in Pass-A-Grille. The wind was blowing hard, the water had dropped form crystal clear to… murky; and the bite was off. I did pick up a huge sheepshead for my efforts. But the story of the day on East er Sunday was ... More About: Nook , Aster
Clearwater Redfish
2007-04-02 16:36:00 Spent sunday morning fishing with Cap’t. Mike Homer- what a blast! We hit some grassy flats in Clear water . My first cast yielded a nice trout. The next ten casts wen something like this: Redfish Redfish Redfish Missed one! Redfish Redfish Redfish Missed another! Redfish Redfish You get the idea. They were fiesty little guys, ranging up to about 20″ or so. We caught a few dozen, ... More About: Fish , Water
March Madness
2007-03-31 13:34:00 Friday was WAY too nice a day to spend in the office, so I hit Merry Pier in the morning, and didn’t leave till the evening. Loaded up with select shrimp and fiddler crabs, I was ready for a good day of fishing. And it was. Catch of the day was sheepshead- big ones that succumbed ... More About: March Madness , March , Ness , Marc , Madness
Springtime in Tampa!
More articles from this author:2007-03-27 23:11:00 OK, so it must be Spring - temperatures are in the mid 80’s, drunken spring breakers litter the beach, the top’s down on the convertible, the water’s up to the magic 72 degree mark… and the fish are starting to wake up after a very long, very ‘un-fishy’ winter. Saturday was highlighted by a couple of decent ... More About: Time , Springtime , Ring , Tampa 1, 2, 3 |
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