Saltwater

Apalachicola Bay

Captain David Avant on St. George Island ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (850) 228-6234) said Apalachicola Bay has been muddy due to heavy rains up the Apalachicola River. In spite of that, warm weather has brought trout and redfish out from the river mouth and onto the flats. Good action has been on East Bay for anglers fishing with a Gulp! or MirrOlure Catch 2000 on the incoming tide.

Redfish, rockbass (black sea bass), sheeepshead and bluefish have been biting at Bob Sikes Cut. Another good spot for sheepshead has been the railroad trestle on the Apalachicola River.

Avant said the duck hunting on area lakes has been good too. He hunted ducks for 4 days and had good success each time on wood duck and ringneck ducks. He said there are a few ducks on the bay, mostly bluebill, bufflehead and redhead.

Apalachee Bay

Tammy Morgan at Jerry's Bait and Tackle in Crawfordville ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (850) 421-3248) said anglers have been getting trout limits fishing the falling tide on the Crooked River in Carrabelle.

Redfish have been biting well for anglers using live shrimp on the St. Marks River.

Jeff Suber of the Forgotten Coast Kayak Anglers This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.fcka.net, reported that

fishing had to be done in the afternoons due to extremely low tides, as the moon was at its closest distance to the earth this past week. But kayak anglers did manage to find some water with fish in it.

Bill Livingston caught striped bass, redfish, flounder and largemouth bass while fishing the Carrabelle River with a white fluke and Gulp! 3-inch shrimp under a popping cork.

Liam Callaghan boated a 26-inch speckled trout while fishing with John Vickers in Lanark Village. Vickers also caught several slot sized redfish with gold spoons.

Jason Callaghan fished some mud holes near Levy Bay that were holding 24-inch redfish, which he caught dead sticking 3-inch Gulp! Shrimp and the new Gulp! Crazy Legz.

Walter Widener and Travis Lackey fished the Econfina River and landed slot-sized redfish on white jerk baits.

Otto Hough at My Hometown Fishing ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) said Eric Keyser fished with Jordan and Jason Bellflower and they caught several grouper by trolling. Using the Green Mackerel color CDMag18s they brought back nine quality fish ranging from 24 to 31 inches. They also caught a few large black sea bass.

Mike Peterson and his son Mike Jr. caught 15 redfish in the St. Marks River on live shrimp. They kept two 26-inch keepers.

Scott Anderson and a couple of his buds went out late Saturday from Aucilla to camp out up a creek and fish for reds on the bright moon. They reported getting spooled (losing all their line) a couple of times by huge redfish. They did, however, catch several fish in the slot.

Keaton Beach

Captain Pat McGriff of One More Cast Guide Service ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (850) 584-9145) reported the redfishing and trout action has improved greatly with the warm weather.

Cal Beanblossom and Glenn Floyd had a great time catching a redfish every cast for more than an hour. They also caught 35-40 keeper trout, with many over 20 inches. All were taken on a falling tide. Most were caught on an Assassin 5-inch Shad (clear/gold) in 1.8-2.4 feet of water.

McGriff said trout also have been taking live shrimp, live pinfish, and Assassin Goldfish 5-inch Shads rigged on an unweighted worm hook.

Offshore, Charles Gibson, his son and Andy Flack went out to 52 feet of water and brought back a 120-quart cooler full of black sea bass. They were using chicken gizzrds for bait. Bizarre. . .but effective.

Steinhatchee

Captain Tommy Thompson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) in Steinhatchee told of fishing with Trixie Bunkley from Steinhatchee. They found nice trout late in the day in about a foot of water. The following day he fished with Tyson Reed and, using fly tackle, caught several large trout at a creek mouth.

Thompson said warm weather has the fish confused. Water temps moving 6 degrees up and down every day have been making them think the world is turning upside down.

Freshwater

Lake Seminole

Jack Wingate at Wingate's Lunker Lodge ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (229) 246-0658) on Lake Seminole said speck (crappie) action in the lake has been excellent. The slab-sized panfish have been deep, shallow, and all the depths between. On of Wingate's neighbors, W.C. Johnson, was fishing for specks from his dock,

pitching a Crappie Jig on 4-pound- test line, when he hooked into and landed a 7-pound largemouth bass.

The Hydrilla Gnat's Bass Club's 12- to 14-inch Slot Limit Classic was won by Mike Sloan with 6.63 pounds of bass. Andy Koundourakis came in second with 5.83 pounds, and Mike Prindle took third with 3.97 pounds. Chris Neely won fourth place with 1.10 pounds and Nick Brown came in fifth with .86 pounds.