Tripletail Joke
The answer in the Fish ID Contest? Tripletail!!! This juvenile was bright yellow, when they get larger they can have a broad range of colors from gray to brown and even sometimes black. Here’s another photo just for fun…
Fish ID Contest
Name that fish!! Hint, this is a juvenile stage so the color is quite different than a mature individual. I have better photos, but this angle makes things a little more challenging. You can click on the picture to get a larger view. Post your answer with a comment below:
Springtime Cobia Fishing
When I think about fishing in March in the Florida Panhandle from Panama City to Pensacola two things come to mind: Number two, pompano… and number one, Cobia! The springtime cobia run in likely the most spectacular display of large cobia in the world. Fish over 100-pounds are caught here almost every year! The fish arrive on the beaches in March and move east to west toward their breeding grounds which I believe to near the nutrient rich waters offshore of the Mississippi River Delta though there is still some debate on where the fish are headed. The fish typically migrate just off of the beach and can be easily spotted in the crystal clear water this area provides.
Our Newest Member
BreakinLines would like to welcome Matt Clarke as a contibutor to the website! Matt is from the Tampa Bay area and is a fantastic fisherman and photographer. I have been blown away by many of his reports and photographs in the past so there was no doubt I was going to ask him to help out with the site content. Here is a write up from Matt introducing himself. Please take the time to read it and check out a couple of his photos he submitted to me. Thanks Matt and we look forward to your contributions to the site!!
Spotted Seatrout Season Opens Monday
North Florida spotted seatrout season reopens March 1
The recreational harvest season for spotted seatrout in North Florida reopens on March 1. This means all Florida waters will be open to the sport harvest of spotted seatrout beginning that day. Spotted seatrout harvest is prohibited in February in Atlantic Ocean waters north of the Flagler-Volusia county line to the Florida-Georgia border and in Gulf of Mexico waters north of a line running due west from the westernmost point of Fred Howard Park Causeway, which is about 1.17 miles south of the Pinellas-Pasco county line, to the Florida-Alabama border. This one-month closure helps maintain spotted seatrout abundance. The maximum daily bag limit for spotted seatrout in the reopened waters north of the established boundaries is 5 fish per person. In waters south of these boundaries, the daily limit is 4 fish per person. The statewide slot limit for spotted seatrout is 15-20 inches total length, but anglers may keep one spotted seatrout larger than 20 inches as part of the daily bag limit. Spotted seatrout may not be harvested by any multiple hooks with live or dead natural bait, and snagging or snatch-hooking spotted seatrout is illegal. Anglers may take spotted seatrout with hook-and-line gear and cast nets and must land the fish in a whole condition.