Fishing Trips Near Port Richey, Florida, With Flats Fishing Photos
You could see if you're fishing over grass beds or older a sandy bottom. It's also all to easy to spot sand bars as well as other places that will certainly hold fish while flats fishing. We caught lots of species from your dock, including small redfish, black drum, sea robins, toadfish, sand trout, catfish, alligator gars, barracudas, and crabs. We also caught a lot of pinfish, which we used by bait for flats fishing. We caught stingrays as well as a sea turtle, too.My son-in-law, Cory, caught a tiny cobia in the dock. Even my small granddaughters, who had never done any salt water fishing before, made it possible to catch fish. And my young grandsons, who will be already avid fishermen in the ages of seven and four, loved catching redfish, combined with the pinfish we employed for bait.
We hung some really large fish in the dock that broke our lines. I’m sure one would have been a huge cobia, as well as the others were probably sharks or big reds. That’s among the best things about salt water fishing - who knows what you might catch. On the second day of our fishing vacation, we got a pontoon boat for a lot of flats fishing. Our fishing trip started at Sunset Marina, and that is adjacent to the trip house we rented.
The fishing trip took us only several minutes to access the flats fishing grounds. The water there was clearly incredibly clear and calm. It was very easy to see the underside, a few of which was covered with sea grass, with sandy patches in some places. All different sizes of pinfish were everywhere.
If we ran from bait, we could easily catch some other pinfish make use of. Just about everything on the flats eats pinfish. One advantage that Port Richey has over the areas for flats fishing is the fact there's visible structures. Several "stilt houses" were built decades ago, out from the gulf.
Fish are likely to congregate round the pilings of those wooden houses. We had have been told by some Port Richey locals that cobia, or “ling,” as they’re called inside the gulf, were waiting for near the mouth with the Cotee, and we started out with a few cobia fishing. I had done slightly cobia fishing before, so that it wasn’t completely foreign for me. Cory and Johnny used live pinfish as bait, fished near the base with a weight. I decided on freelining a mullet minnow. It wasn’t well before I hung a fish.
I was using pretty light tackle, so I was at for a struggle. The fish kept taking my drag, and I kept reeling in whenever I got some slack. The fish finally did start to tire, so that as it neared the boat, we can easily see that it would have been a cobia. It then got a different surge of energy and wrapped my line across the anchor rope. Cory pulled within the rope, together with the fish. We were disappointed to uncover that it turned out only 30-inches long from your nose to your tail fork, along with the legal size was 33 inches.
If we will have measured the cobia’s complete, it will have been legal and keep. We released the fish, unharmed. The others chose to freeline their baits while cobia fishing, too. We hooked some other fish, but we wound up with broken lines. Next time I go cobia fishing, I’ll be taking some challenging tackle. The next day of flats fishing, we chose to focus on seatrout.
Trout fishing was pretty good, and that we love to eat trout, and we were ready with jigs, shrimp, and small pinfish. We caught a couple of silvers while trout fishing, but decided we didn’t escape early enough. The local anglers told us that trout fishing was best early within the morning and late inside evening. We quit our trout fishing and went back to cobia fishing. Evidently, the cobia were elsewhere that day.
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