Headed down next week to do some fishing. Any advise from anyone who has fished down there before? We will be fishing from the surf and have a boat as well. Thanks in advance for the help.
Will you be on St. George Island…? Pompano should be good now.
We are actually staying on Cape San Blas just west of St. George Island. I have heard the pompano fishing is pretty good. Any pointers on bait, tackle, atificals, I love read the Spanish bite should be pretty decent as well.
Incidentally, st George is my favorite place to vacation. There are a lot of options. Definitely pompano along the beaches, but more concentrated at inlets. Live/fresh shrimp on a jighead or split shot as sandfleas are hard to find right now, and you broaden the types of fish by using shrimp (which happens to be the best bait for Spanish macs in my opinion, fish them on a popping cork once you locate them.). Another fish to target are Tripletail. That’s actually closer to cape San blas. Look for any floating structure in 8 to 15ft of water around st Vincent island/Indian pass. There are huge Tripletail around that island. Good luck, if the weathers good, you should do really well this time of year.
Triple Tail is the BEST!!!
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Thanks for all of the reply’s. We are going to launching the boat out of apalacacola any tricky spots in the bay to be concerned about? Sounds like triple tail is the ticket.
Check out the HAlfHitch.com website. Look under activities and you will find a link to a map with fishing locations. If you have a gps you can enter the waypoints to find them.
There is a HalfHitch store in Port St Joe for tackle, bait, and information.
In sert you a PM earlier today.
BadBob
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If you ain’t the lead dog then the scenery never changes
We caught a ton of Trout from the beach. Fishing the troughs up and down the beach at dusk and dawn. They were hitting anything shiny, and at dusk, the trout trick with pearl eye was killing it. Caught my personal best the night before we left. You can wade much of the bay on the south west side. The state park on SGI was very nice.
Locals are big on Fish Bite’s for Pompano.
I can’t wait to get back down there.
Caught a lot of trout, reds, flounder and pompano once the wind calmed down. It blew 30-40 Friday-Sunday. Great trip overall and had success on the beach and in the bay. One of the best things about this place is how few people were there. Here a few pictures and thanks to everyone who gave advice and contributed to this thread.
Solid Gators! Looks a pretty awesome trip.
Sweeeeet! thanks for the pics- on my bucket list now
J Ford
Can you keep trout as large as the ones in the last pic?
The limit in the northwest gulf zone where we were is 5 trout per person 15"-20" and only 1 of those can be over 20".
Goodness gracious! Those are some beautiful trout!!!
“Why Bruce?”
Looks like y’all did great! Thanks for the report. Fishing can be exceptionally weather sensitive down there. If ya go again, hire Chris gouras for Tripletail. He’ll put ya on em in any conditions.
Trout in the Gulf are special. Caught a 27.5 and a 25.5 in a span of an hour in a crowded, small craft harbor.