February

Fishing Report – February

Inshore

Inshore fishing should stay pretty good for the month of February specially for sight fishing for redfish on the shallow flats and creeks. I like the last three hours of outgoing and the first three of incoming tides. Try smaller baits like shrimp and jigs with 15-20lb fluorocarbon leader and be very quiet when you target these fish!  For black drum I would fish docks, bridges, deep creek holes and the inlet with live shrimp, fiddler crabs or clams.  Flounder bite should stay pretty this month fishing the creek holes the mouth of the creek. Use 1/8 oz jig head with a live mullet or mud minnow and drag across the bottom.

Surf & Inlet

 Use shrimp, fiddler crabs and clams for black drum and live or dead mullet for redfish. Pompano, sheepshead, trout and bluefish can also be targeted with pompano rigs, spoons and gotcha plugs. Use a knocker rig with live mullet or mud minnow for flounder. Make sure you have enough weight to keep the bait at the bottom.

Offshore

The wahoo and sailfish bite should be good at the ledge if the weather allows it, high speed troll your favorite lures with darker color patterns for these fish or a rigged ballyhoo. For bottom anglers the trigger fish bite could be good with occasional cobia on the reefs and wrecks. Snook Season opens February 1^st.  Slot is not less 28” or more than 32” total length. Daily bag limit is 1 per harvester per day; zero captain and crew for- hire limit.

Tight Lines and be safe out there!

Captain Tim Jarvis

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