Skyway Pier South Fishing Reports 2009 -10-11-12-13-14

[Filletnrelease]

Nice grouper, I'll be out there either Fri or Sat morning looking for one.

My plan is Friday early. Look me up if your there. F-150 4x4, Maroon & Gold with a Pier Rat decal in the rear window. Be nice to put a face with a name.
Jack

[Cookinman]

Got out Saturday morning for a while. The Grouper bite is on fire. Every bait I sent out got nailed. Caught 10 from 20" to 21-1/2", then nailed this 23". Put 5 nice fat Macks in the cooler for the smoker too.

GREAT grouper Jack - I am actually up in Dunnellon now with my folks for the Turkey weekend - Nice lil pre cold snap bite !!! Chilly up here at night this week!

[SD2]

Nice grouper, gotta love t - shirt fishing last week of november

[ripnlips]

nice groupah jack. haven't seen you up there in a while. we did pretty good on the bonito saturday. 24 hookups, 11 landed.

[j29]

What did u do to catch the bonito?

[ripnlips]

we caught them on spoons at first. i caught a few on a jighead and a white jerkbait. also caught most on live freelined threadfins about 3 to 4 inches long. going back on sunday. the bite will be on the incoming tide.

[ripnlips]

here is a few pics.

[j29]

Looks like u guys had a fun day! Im going to try to make it on sun. Hope i see u guys there.

[SD2]

nice albies

[TeEnAnGlerPro213]

any decent and recent reports? planning to make a trip over there to see some friends and im planning to hit the pier in the morning.

[PinfishRUs]

Cold, cold, cold! Only thing I've seen coming up at SSW lately is undersized macs and grouper.

[permitchaser]

ANY reports boyz thinking of going tonite to fish and tomorrow to pick up a reel for Gio

[permitchaser]

let me know if you want to take a trip permitchaser

i know where the rockpiles on skyway are and we live less than a mile away from each other!!!

GLENN im ready i will call you

[permitchaser]

Glenn thanks a lot for the info buddy .congrats with you daugther will report .

[Filletnrelease]

A pic of a Pompano I caught a few weeks back (my last trip out) on the south side.

[permitchaser]

A pic of a Pompano I caught a few weeks back (my last trip out) on the south side.

FilletnR are you going tomorrow? i will be there an F150 King Ranch

[permitchaser]

got there friday night we saw dead fish floating couldn't what they were .in the morning freeline a couple of pins nada.i was at a good spot pro's got next to me thanks Glenn for advise .we start talking dude smoke cigars too i gave him one of my pinfish i saw how they do it over there .a lot of pinfish only no other bait i try to by shrimp at the entrance $ 4.50 DOZEN hell NO . Bridge its awesome I will be back 3 hours to get there.nobody caught one fish btw.

[Filletnrelease]

Got out for the opening of Grouper season. Caught 9 but only one bare keeper at 23".

[permitchaser]

that its a a beauty ,you always catch your groupper there juicy meat

[TeEnAnGlerPro213]

nice one. i might be making a trip up there in 3-4 weeks

[ripnlips]

We got to the ssp around 8 am. Saw the bait all over the place so I decided to toss the new net. As I was gathering the net, I realize that the new net is much smaller than the one that I am used to throwing. I give it a toss and realize that this net isn’t gonna cut the mustard. Good thing rich showed up with his net (getting another new net this weekend for sure).

The mack bite was on and off in the morning so I decide to throw on a big threadfin for tarpon. After 20 minutes or so, I jump one about 60-70 pounds. Only got 1 jump from it before he broke off but it was still pretty cool. Jeremy started fishing the reef for snapper. Ended up catching a nice 14” flounder. It was his first. Lost a few grouper to the rocks and decides to join us mack fishing. We saw what appeared to be a shark attacking a mackerel but chris quickly identified it as a huge barracuda. Looked to be about 5 to 6 feet long. It cut that mack in half like a hot knife thru butter. It hung out at the surface for a few minutes before it moved on. That thing looked like a truck bumper with teeth.

The mack bite fired up a little after the tide change. It was non stop from 3pm til we left at 6. Ended up catching at least 100 of them between the 6 of us. Kept a few of the big ones for dinner.

[TeEnAnGlerPro213]

nice. macks are really fun on light tackle!

[snapperfanatic18]

nice report. i wish that were me releasing 100+ mack. great job. macks are just about gone down south with some stragglers. how long does the mack bite last over at the skyway and has anyone been catching kings lately?

[SnookMook]

snapper--The mack bite will certainly last through the end of the month. Once the water heats up real good, I'm not so sure after that. They're are still some kings around and there are definitely some mixed in with the big Spanish. I caught a 25 inch Spanish on Saturday trolling the Egmont channel near the Skyway from my buddy's boat. We also got cut off by a couple of kings.

We were trolling for grouper and those pesky mackerel kept hitting our grouper baits. The mackerel are all over the place right now. We also couldn't stay away from them while bottom fishing the Egmont artificial reefs either. They kept hitting our sardines before we could get them to the bottom.

This is one of the ones we caught while bottom fishing.



I don't have a pic of the big one. I took a real day off Saturday and said no photos or writing while out fishing. That is one my buddy took with my back up point and shoot camera.

Needless to say, we had a lot of fun catching them, we put a few in the box, and I've had a good time eating them the last couple of nights as well.

[ripnlips]

the mack bite is hot around the skyway from mid march to mid june and again from early october until thanksgiving. they can be caught year around if you know how to read the water. we usually catch some of the biggest macks of the year around christmas.

[ripnlips]

here is a pic from around new year. notice the long sleeves and jeans.

[snookmaster69]

any fishing reports from the skyway??????

[snapperfanatic18]

thanks for the info guys. snookmook, u guys must be having a blast releasing mack after mack. u guys are definitely on the fish. keep up the good work

[Filletnrelease]

Nice Macks, Snook & Mario. Finally made it out April 1st for the opening of Grouper, been trying to get back out but working out of town has been pretty much the norm. Got one keeper out of 9 caught.