Fishing report for the week ending 1/3 10, cold temperatures are upon us and with that a change in styles are important. The weeks prior to this were loaded with fast moving aggressive fish like mackeral, bluefish, ladyfish and pompano. These fish are still here but there feeding patterns change with the cold slowing them down to virtually nothing at times. I dont care for the cold, but this time of year brings some great pothole and deep mangrove shoreline fishing. The potholes for bigger seatrout ( some up to 4 lbs) and redfish that as the cold stays on will be slot fish. For you folks that like to eat fish seatrout is back in season, slot being 15-20 inches limit 4 with one being over 20 inches. The best bets for the potholes are when the tide is the lowest preferably incoming, soft baits presented slowly near the bottom or live shrimp on a poping cork. Smaller rat redfish up to 20 inches are showing up on the deeper mangrove shorelines, a lot of people catch these by mistake fishing for sheepshead. Your best bet is half a shrimp live or dead with a splitshot on the bottom. I have found that if you want just the redfish use a bigger circle hook (you wont get the smaller snapper or sheephead and you wont gut hook the redfish).Sheepshead are also good in the colder temps, the same approach but use a small hook. Here are a few photos of redfish and trout we caught on cold days, dont give up just because its cold. Tight lines.
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