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Power-Plant Trip Pays Off

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By BILLY NOBLES

Tribune correspondent

Published: January 24, 2009

GO FISHING is a look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Billy Nobles, left, with "Reel Animals" partner Mike Anderson.

With the weather we have been experiencing, I canceled four trips last week and four this week. I tried to cancel the one for Thursday, but my guys were die-hards.

The last trip I ran a couple of weeks ago, the water temperature behind my house in Apollo Beach was 71.5 degrees; on Thursday it was 52.8 degrees.

So I was stressing and thought, "If I were a fish in this frigid water what would I do?" You guessed it; head to the warm water at the power plant. The water temperature there was 68.9 degrees.

After riding around a bit trying to figure out the best plan of attack, we saw a bunch of sharks. We anchored and put out a chum block to start our slick. It took four of five minutes to rig the rods with wire, then cut up some mullet and bait the hooks.

We fan-casted across the chum slick with three rods. No sooner did the third bait hit the water, the first rod started singing. It was about a 4-foot blacktip. Then the second rod screamed - another blacktip, about a 5-footer. We caught several blacktips up to 40 pounds and one hammerhead that was 40 or 50 pounds.

Catch captains Billy Nobles and Mike Anderson on the "Reel Animals Fishing Show" on Saturdays from 6:30-7 a.m. and Sundays from 11-11:30 a.m. on WFLA, Channel 8, and on Sundays from 8-10 a.m. on 1040 AM. To book a charter, call 1-866-GAMEFISH or visit

reelanimalsfishingshow.com.

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