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Boca Grande, Fl
18 January,2012
January often brings cold weather to southwest Florida but this season seems somewhat warmer. Fishing this week was excellent for seatrout, good for redfish and slow for snook. The snook tend to hunker down when the water temps drop. Yesterday the back-country water reached 68 degrees, up from a low of 62. We are expecting another weak cold front to arrive tonight, the 18th. Air temps are holding in the mid 70s and will continue for the next week or so at least.
Seatrout to 22" fell to small shrimp patterns & Clouser minnows. Our best day netted 35 trout. Redfish have been hiding in deep water until the tide is full and the water has warmed. Best catch was three fish to 26 inches. Nothing super but not bad. We have taken a few snook by fishing deeper channels and creeks with intermediate lines. It's not very fancy but it works. Norman Davidson from Ct. fished this week taking one snook, several seatrout to 19 inches, a pompano and several large lady fish on a 6 wt, BVK by TFO. Dennis Kowal caught three snook to 22 inches on a windy day on a 4 wt. fly rod. What a hoot! Ron Whiteley took redfish to 26 inches this week also.
I'm expecting the fishing to improve as we approach the next full moon near the end of the month. As long as the weather doesn't get too cold the fish will move back up on the flats where we can sight fish them better. After looking at the weather in the north, I am glad I am somewhere warm that has good fishing. Hope you get a chance to enjoy it too.
Fish Hard,
Pete
Pete Greenan 941 232 2960
A FFF Master Certified Casting Instructor
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