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BLUEFISH
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Usually migrates to area in early
winter months. Will hit silver or gold spoons, plugs
and can be taken on bottom rigs with cut bait. The
jetties, port area, and the surf are all productive
areas. Daily bag limit is 10 and fish must measure
at least 12 inches to the fork.
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BLACK DRUM
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Can be taken in large numbers
around bridges and pilings. When caught, this fish
will try to break you off on the barnacles of the
pilings and bridge columns. Use a heavy leader for
a better chance of landing one. The choice bait is
crushed blue crab, but they will also hit on clams
and pieces of baitfish.
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FLOUNDER
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Winter months are best for the
bigger fish. They can be caught at the Port and
jetty inlets. The choice baits are live finger
mullet, mud minnows or small pinfish fished on a
sliding sinker rig worked slowly across the bottom..
Slack tide usually brings the better catches and
flounder like sandy bottoms. Daily bag limit is 10
and the minimum size is 12 to the fork.
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MANGROVE SNAPPER
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Can be taken in large numbers
around pilings, bridges, and rocks around the
jetties. Use shrimp or pilchards and a small hook
for better luck. Warm weather increases the numbers
caught. Daily bag limits are 5 and the minimum size
is 10 inches.
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REDFISH (RED DRUM)
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A gamefish usually taken from the
river or inlets, with a fall run sometimes
coordinating with the fall mullet run around the
jetties. Will hit live baits, including shrimp and
mullet on sliding-sinker bottom rigs, and also
bucktail, gold spoons and trout tout jigs. Top water
plugs can be productive on the flats when seen
tailing. Daily bag limit is one fish between 18 and
27 inches.
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SNOOK
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A gamefish caught on live baits
including shrimp, croaker, pinfish, pigfish, mojarra
and mullet, or artificial such as flair jigs,
bucktail jigs, Bombers, Windcheaters, Snook Slayers,
Mirrolures and Mavericks. Can be found by the
jetties, around lighted docks and structures. In the
rivers they can be found along deep mangrove
shorelines and structures. Daily bag limit is two a
person. Must be a minimum of 24 inches and only one
can exceed 34 inches.
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SEA TROUT
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Can be caught at the jetties and
the surf, with the largest numbers being taken in
the rivers. During the warmer months most of the
trout can be found on the grass flats in the rivers.
During the colder months you might have to hunt for
them in the deeper holes, creeks, and canals. They
can be caught on live shrimp, mullet, and artificial
baits. Daily bag limits for this area is 5 fish
between 15-20 inches and you can keep one over 20
inches. Season is closed in this area all of
November and December.
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SHEEPSHEAD
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Usually caught around pilings and
bridges using fiddler crabs or shrimp for bait.
Daily bag limits are 15 and minimum size is 12
inches to the fork.
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SPANISH MACKEREL
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Another late fall or early winter
migrant usually caught from the jetties, the port
area, or the surf. They'll hit small spoons, like
the Diamond Jig, or small live baits fished under
floats. Daily bag limit is 10 and minimum size limit
is 12 inches to the fork.
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