Hubbards Marina at Johns Pass Fishing Report: 10/21/14 Inshore: Mike McDonald, a St. Petersburg local, reported catching some nice flounder on live green backs from the north jetty inside Johns Pass. Cody Butterick, also a St. Petersburg local, said the slot sized redfish were enjoying the live green backs too but they were more aggressive with the free-lined baits. Jared Insborf, a Madeira Beach local, was doing well catching mackerel with spoons. However, he was waiting to see large bait schools before casting his mackerel lures. When the bait schools weren’t there Jared was catching large black drum on live pilchers using heavy weight and casting into the deepest part of the pass. Matt Cardozo, from Largo, was catching nice redfish on live shrimp in the pass too. He said the shrimp were working best near the bottom for the redfish and flounder. Devin Pate, from Pinellas Park, said the snook bite is mainly at night. He reported catching half dozen big boys from the north jetty using shrimp. However, most anglers during the day reported little to no snook action so if you want a big snook you should go after them at the beginning or end of the strongest tide of the night. Nearshore: The red grouper are super aggressive now that were not allowed to keep them. It has been tough to get baits past them to the gags. We have had most success using large live bait to avoid the red grouper, but then trying to get these fat gags off the bottom is a whole different challenge. If you’re using the right tackle, the gags are much easier to land. Remember to bring the heavy stuff while fishing during the cooler months when the fat gags come inshore to play. We are also getting the kingfish now on our all day and half day trips. The hogfish are also getting frisky as of lately, and they are loving the live shrimp. Offshore: If you haven’t gone online to see our 63 hour photos, you should! Last weekend’s long range trip did so well that when they backed in at 6am Sunday morning the crew, captain and guests were so pumped it looked like they were just leaving. The grouper poured off the boat as it unloaded. They brought in over 100 keeper grouper for the 15 anglers on board. We had snowy, yellow edge, gags, scamp, and strawberry grouper. We also caught barrel fish, glass eye snapper, mahi mahi, sailfish, kingfish, monster porgy, triple tail and others! Upcoming at Hubbard’s Marina Want to try a specialty trip in 2015? Our specialty trip schedule will be posted to our website by the end of November sometime. When this happens, then you will be able to book any of our 12 hour night trips, 12 hour day trips, 39 hours with 50 people max, 39 hours with 15 people max, 44 hour full moon snapper trips, 63 hour pelagic trips, or the 63 hour deep drop trip! To see the 2014 specialty schedule, or to see where the 2015 schedule will be posted simply visit the specialty trips section of our website and then click Specialty trips schedule the green button on the top right hand side! Also, make sure all your fishing buddies are signed up for this weekly email so all your friends will hear about our specialty trips as well! You also have the option to forward this message to friends to ensure no one misses out on the important announcements. We have one more 39 hour fishing trip this month! It leaves Friday October 31st at 3 pm. We will be going after large gag grouper, scamp grouper, strawberry grouper, mangrove snapper, lane snapper and many more! Red grouper and Jacks are now closed, but there is still plenty of fish in the sea! November has two more 39 hour trips. The first 39 hour leave Friday November 7th at 3pm and the second leaves Friday November 21st at the same time. Hope you all can join us for one of these trips. November is Captain Mark’s favorite month for gag grouper fishing, and it typically brings in some big grouper! If you plan to fish with us sometime soon, make sure to bring trolling and flat-lining tackle! The kingfish and mackerel are now rolling into the area and were picking them up on all our trips. Reservations become imperative this time of year! If you do not have a reservation we cannot forecast our trips appropriately and we may end up canceling a trip you plan to do if you do not make your reservations. Also, once you have reservations if we have to cancel due to the cold fronts that will be starting soon we will be able to call and let you know or warn you of the adverse weather. We have slowed down dramatically at Hubbard’s Marina. Due to this, Hubbard’s Marina will now close at 8pm. Also we have changed our sunset cruise time to 6pm. We have canceled our 5pm dolphin watching trips due to our sunset cruise time changes. Our Ferry to Egmont key is still running but we do not offer the 10am ferry ride anymore and the ferry will be closed Mondays. Also, we have discontinued shark fishing trips and night fishing trips. If you want a trip we canceled, we can always book you a private charter! Dylan Hubbard has taken over the private charters at Hubbard’s Marina. If you have ever wanted information or been interested in booking give him a call or shoot him an email and he will get you booked for a unique fishing or sightseeing experience! Call (727)393-1947 extension 306 or email: info@Hubbardsmarina. There seems to be some confusion on seasons, due to this we will now include what has CLOSED at the bottom of our emails. If it is not listed, this means we can go out and harvest it! Come join us for some fishing sometime soon, there is plenty of fish in the sea! --Red grouper CLOSED October 4th at 12:01am --Amberjack CLOSED August 25th --Red snapper were only open June 1st through June 9th --Gray triggerfish CLOSED May 31st --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hubbards marina (727)393-1947 Hubbardsmarina
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:18:50 +0000