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Upper Bay Producing Big Catches

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 13, 2007

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Bill Miller.

Captain Richard Seward reports good fishing in Upper Tampa Bay. Double Branch, Channel A and Rocky Creek are all holding snook, redfish, trout, ladyfish and jacks. Free-lined live whitebaits along the oyster bars and channel edges have been producing good catches.

Grouper and snapper fishing offshore has been very good. Vance Tice and crew limited out on mangrove snapper and red grouper, with some gag grouper and yellowtail snapper mixed in. Tice also caught a 5-pound sheepshead in 95 feet of water on half a frozen Spanish sardine.
Mackerel fishing has been red-hot off Clearwater Beach. Rick and Reid Alvarez have been limiting daily, anchoring on rocky patches that are holding bait and using whitebaits and greenbacks. They have been using a frozen chum block and free-lining the baits into the chum line.

Kingfish action off St. Pete Beach has been very good. This past week, captain Carlos Lima has been putting his clients onto limit catches of kingfish up to 35 pounds. As long as the warm weather holds, the kingfish should be with us.

Captain Bill Miller hosts "Hooked on Fishing" on Thursdays and Sundays from 7-8 p.m., and Fridays and Mondays from 11 a.m.-noon on Bright House Networks Catch 47.

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