During the spring most of the fishing is done with live bait. The sharks are also showing up looking the eat anything that moves. The cobia are roaming the flats looking for food. The spanish and king mackerel are invading the beaches and artificial reefs looking for an easy meal. The trout also gather in large schools for their migration offshore for the summer. The redfish school up in large schools on the flats.
The snook come out from their winter homes to fatten up for their summer spawn. This is the natural bait for the Tampa Bay area and when they show up the game fish of the flats become active and eat everything in sight. These baits are known in our area as whitebait, greenies, and sardines. This is when we get our large schools of bait fish in from offshore. The spring time flats fishing is the best of the year. During the winter we fish with both artificial baits and live bait. The snook fishing can be slow during the winter months because they are very sensitive to the cold weather. The redfish fishing during the winter is not as good as the trout fishing, but they are availabble to catch. These trout can sometimes be up to 30 inches long and weigh almost 10 pounds. It’s not uncommon to catch 50 or 60 trout in two hours of fishing. The trout fishing at this time of the year is insane. Winter Flats Fishingįlats fishing during the winter we mainly fish for large gator trout, and redfish. These months are also some of the best months for snook and redfish and sometimes we are able to catch all of these species on a single charter. Most years the best months are March, April, October, and November for the spanish and kings. During the spring and fall we get a migration of spanish mackerel, and kingfish.
On most charters we are able to catch all three of these species along with others types of fish on a single days charter. During our flats fishing charter in Boca Grande we fish for several types of these fish, the most common of these fish are the snook, redfish, and trout. Flats fishing is a general term we use for fishing the inshore areas for snook, redfish, trout, cobia, permit, pompano, spanish mackerel, sharks, and even kingfish.
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