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The fall run is in full swing, bass and bait are on the move. The shifting winds and shorter days have the bass on the feed. The fishing reports are not as reliable this month because a bite you are reading about has already happened and those fish have moved on. It is not like the summer months where those fish tend to stay in areas for extended periods of time. In October a bite can last minutes or days but you have to be on the water to find out.
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The mullet run doesn’t have an official start or end date. Large schools of mullet—some the size of three football fields—move south as temperatures cool. Tarpon, sharks, kingfish and redfish are just some of the gamefish that move with these pods. Most years the fishing is on fire in October and November.
• BAIT: Obviously, mullet is the bait to use this time of the year. Full-grown mullet are great for shark and tarpon fishing. I prefer freelining finger-sized mullet, because pretty much everything eats them.
TARGETING REDFISH During the Mullet Migration
To fish with the mullet, I just follow the pods, cast to the outside of the school and open the bail to let the bait swim. When you hit it right, you can hook-up on nearly every cast, with the species changing from one cast to the next. Big gamefish tend to seek out isolated or injured mullet, which is exactly what your bait is.
• REDFISH REGULATIONS: Florida recently adopted new management plan for redfish. There are now varied regulations across nine different zones. Anglers need to understand those regulations because they’re intended to protect one of our iconic species in the face
• ARTIFICIALS: This backcountry lady angler enjoys sight fishing and scouting Mosquito Lagoon and the marshes of the Tomoka Basin along Florida’s central Atlantic Coast. I’ll target bull reds in the inlets, but I spend most days targeting snook, tarpon and slot reds in the backcountry. This style of fishing is perfect for throwing artificials on light tackle.
Atlantic Coast of Florida experiences one of the planet’s great migrations each fall. When millions of mullet push south in giant schools toward spawning grounds off the southern end of the state, it presents an exciting prospect for fishing. It’s an event anglers anticipate all year long.
Landing a bull red this time of the year is easy. With the mullet running, simply free-line a mullet or drop one on a weighted rig to land a trophy! Before you experience the drag-pulling run, you should know how to properly handle and release your fish.
Free-lining sounds simple, but where you choose to fish and what you’re targeting will play a role in the set-up and rig you should use.
• TACKLE: I mainly fish inshore, so light tackle is the way for me. However, it’s important to be prepared to switch up depending on the size and species of game fish present.
It’s heartbreaking to see breeder fish floating due to carelessness or lack of knowledge. Hauling a big redfish up vertically onto a bridge or pier, dragging it over the rocks on a jetty or tossing it back from up high severely limits its chance of survival. Get a pier net to fish from a bridge or pier, and do everything in your power to ensure the healthy release of your fish.
In the backcountry, I like a light- to mediumaction 2000 size spinning set-up to fish 10-pound leaders and 3/0 circle hooks. I prefer Mustad hooks and tie them on with a simple loop knot. I use an FG knot to connect my leader to a braided main line. This creates a true free-line, without the added weight of a swivel.
This time of year, any artificial that resembles a mullet will do the trick. I like Vudu Mullet Swimbaits, Rapala X-raps, Bomber Lures Mullets,
Here are some tips for anglers to take advantage of the mullet run.
Handling them with care and releasing them safely is important to the future of our fisheries. The statewide slot limit from 18 and 27 inches is intended to protect the large fish, which are part of the spawning stock.
Most of the state now has a one-fishper-person daily limit in the 18- to 27inch slot. Some regions have a two-fishper-vessel possession limit and others have a four-fish-per-vessel possession limit. The Indian River Lagoon region is strictly catch-and-release only for redfish. For complete Florida redfish regulations, go
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The rigging is pretty much the same if I need to beef up for larger catches. With a 2500-size setup, I’ll fish 15- to 20-pound leader. I’ll bump that up to 25- to 30-pound test on 3000-size gear for bigger fish.
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After all, that is why the gags are there. They are eating the same baits that you’re catching. They come inshore to a place that holds bait, so all the smaller females have plenty to eat while they are discussing
and snappers hold a special place in my heart. Starting right now, they should be going off! It’s time consuming to stop on the way out a jig up bait. However, a 15- or 20-minute bait stop could make the difference between a good day and a great day. When you find bait in numbers, it doesn’t take long to rack up. I like to keep a Sabiki angler on each side of the boat handing me baits to dehook into a bucket in the center of the boat. Once I get 20 or so baits in the bucket, I pour them into the livewell and repeat until there’s enough.
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This is the time of year that can make even me look good. The large male gags have started staging up on nearshore structures, wrecks and traditional bait-holding bottom. The scamps and large snappers have started a transitional move to their deeper wintering grounds. Water temps will soon draw a line in the water that clearly shows you where to fish.
I also like to take pinfish from the marina as a “bird in hand” for bottom fishing. The beauty of putting a live sardine on a jig and sending it to the bottom is that EVERYTHING down there eats them. The beauty of sending a pinfish, grass grunt or sailors choice to the bottom is that everything down there would love to eat them, but can’t. They can’t get their mouths around the bigger baits, but the ones that can are the fish you want to catch. Go enjoy the bounty of the season!
love spring and summer fishing, but let me say this loud and clear: I live for fall and winter fisheries!
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Starting this month, the larger gags will be so close in that it’ll shock you. Don’t run too far, or you’ll run over some of the biggest fish of the year. Go wherever you jig up your cigar minnows and sardines, and the gags will be right there. When you get a few baits in the well, it’s a good idea to have at least one person put a bait right back down.
the possibilities of spawning. The same places will hold large seabass, as well. I love to eat grouper, but the way I grouper fish also produces large seabass, which I think are even better than grouper in texture andScampsflavor.
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Ahhhh, yeah! This is the time of plenty. Now is the time of year to have a community-sized fish stew to clear out all the vacuum-sealed stuff in the freezer. You’ve got to make some room for freezer-stuffing grouper, snapper and seabass.
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The sand eels not only draw the strip ers they bring in the mackerel. The macs feed on the sand eels and the bass feed on the macs. These candy bars of the surf fuel some amazing top water action. Packing a few mackerel colored plugs during a sand eel bite is a good bet. Plugs to pack would be a pencil popper, darter, and swimming
The weather patterns this month can really fire up a bite. With the poten tial for a hurricane or tropical storm to make an appearance inshore or off shore it can be the catalyst to put the bass on a heavy feed. The days leading up to the storm the water gets bigger and rougher and the bass sense the pressure change. They go into binge feeding, striking anything that swims near. These storms upon arrival tend to scatter the bait. After the storms it takes the bass that decided to hang around a day or two to find them.
Jared Wood is a surfcaster who fishes from Maine to Connecticut. Targeting Striped Bass, Bluefish, Albies, and Bonito in the surf. He can be found on Instagram as surfcaster_jared. For any questions he can be reached at jaredwood25@gmail.com
The later into the month you fish it seems more spots start to become a ghost town. The fish that were here yesterday are gone swimming further south. The beaches are becoming less crowded with fishermen who hung up their surf rod and hit the woods for hunting season. Get out and fish when you can and make the most of it be cause come dead of winter you will be thinking about striped bass.
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starting points. All the juvenile bait fish are making a mass exodus out of the estuaries and rivers they matured in all summer. These areas are an all you can eat buffet for the bass. Find ing the spots that trap the bait as they spill out onto the adjacent beach can lead to memorable nights of fishing. If the beaches adjacent to the harbor and river mouths are sand. Going for a long walk can be beneficial. Work ing your way down the beach picking apart all the soft structure and current seams. This can lead to finding fish that have followed the bait on their migra tion. Walking the beaches in October is comfortable because you are not sweat ing like you did all summer.
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When the winds and tides push them inshore there tend to be really large striped bass on their heels. When this happens make the most of the oppor tunity presented to you. Burn a sick day or put off the yard work one more day. Pack your sea herring bag with pen cils, darters, metal lips, bucktails, and a Hopkins metal. Colors to best match the herring would be white, blue and white, or silver.
get eaten by throwing themselves out of the water and up onto the beach. Lures that best match peanut bunker are swim shads, Sebile stick shad 114, and larger profile metals. Silversides can be frustrating to get bass to com mit to your offering. Thin metals like a deadly dick and smaller bucktails without a trailer are good matches. Juvenile herring will be dropping back from the rivers they spawned in and the bass will be waiting. Matching these small baitfish can be a daunting task but using small white bucktails and small soft plastics on a jig head are very productive. Sand eels are one of the baits that really get me excited. They can take up residence for extend ed periods of time. There becomes a pattern when the sand eels take up residence allowing you to concentrate your efforts during certain tides. Nee dlefish, Ron Z’s, and thin metals are your best offerings.
If walking a lot of miles on the shifting sands is not appetizing to you, working the jetties might be more beneficial to you. Jetties have a knack for holding bass using them as ambush points to trap the young of the year bait. The bass will use the current and the structure to their advantage to hold the bait in the pockets of the jetty. Having multiple jetties to fish can be a fun way to spend your evenings.
The fall run is in full swing, bass and bait are on the move. The shifting winds and shorter days have the bass on the feed. The fishing reports are not as re liable this month because a bite you are reading about has already happened and those fish have moved on. It is not like the summer months where those fish tend to stay in areas for extended peri ods of time. In October a bite can last minutes or days but you have to be on the water to find out.
Choosing the locations to fish can sometimes be a difficult choice this month. You never know which striper will be the last of the season for you. Focusing effort on areas adjacent to river mouths and harbors are great
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Seaplugs.Herring is not a bait I rely on to make an appearance year after year.
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This late in the season being mobile can lead to catching bass or getting skunked. Having multiple spots to slip in and out of to find the bass on their journey South is crucial. For instance planning a night of fishing I have a list of spots that I plan on hitting over the course of 6 hours. I pop into each spot planning on dedicat ing an hour to each location. Keeping my plug selection simple allows me to make the most of each spot. Carrying buck tails, darters, needlefish, danny, minnow plug, and soft plastics I can dissect the water column in my pursuit of finding bass. Have confidence in the plugs you are going to bring with you knowing they are going to match the variety of bait and you can effectively work them.
The bass can be keyed in on one spe cific bait or it can be an assortment of bait in the surf this month. The bait can be peanut bunker, silversides, sand eels, juvenile herring, mackerel, adult bun ker, or sea herring. Peanut Bunker fu eled bites can be electrifying. They are doing everything in their power not to
The boulder fields you have been fish ing all summer still have a draw this time of year. Don’t write them off just yet. The bass that made their living in them all summer know where to find food in them. Some of the patterns you have found will still hold true in these areas. Boulder fields located next to river systems are great locations to tar get this month. The currents in boulder fields disorient bait allowing them to be easy picking for bass laying in wait.
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Before you head out to the shore or river, set up a few hula hoops or other targets and cast without a fly on your lawn. Nothing is worse than being surrounded by fish without the skill to get your fly to the right spot. Know that fly fishing isn’t a sport that can be perfected overnight. It will take time, practice and pa tience before you start to feel a mastery of the sport.
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5.Learn to read the water
The first and best thing you can do is to go fly fishing with someone who knows what they’re doing. Whether that be a guide or a friend, have someone help you so you’re not left completely clueless standing in a river. If you don’t know anyone who fly fishes, try going to an Orvis store, or your local fly shop and ask about casting lessons. Taking casting lessons will not only allow you to gath
after use in saltwater. When you buy a reel, buy a fly line and backing as well allowing the retailer to set up the reel then and there. When they set up the reel, most likely if you are right-handed you will be left-hand retrieve and vice versa. Picking up combo set up is generally the easiest and most economical path if you don’t want to choose your fly rod, reel and line separately. Combo setups include a rod, reel, fly line and backing. Other essential equipment you’ll need is leader (9ft 3x or 4x for freshwater, 20 lb. test for saltwater), tippet, nippers (can use fingernail clippers), forceps or needle nose pliers and a fly box.
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stick with the basics. After se lecting your flies, practice ty ing your flies onto your leader. I normally use an improved clinch knot which is easy and fast.
Finally, learning to read the water is essential in learning how to fly fish. The best meth ods to learn water are to hire a guide to show you the good water, or do a lot of trial and error fishing yourself. When you get to a body of water, don’t immediately start cast ing. Sit on the bank or shore and set up your rod, taking the time to monitor any activity. A good fisherman observes more than he casts.
Choosing a high quality reel is more important when fish ing for heavier fish as you will put fish “on the reel” more fre quently. When buying a salt water setup, a sealed drag will slow the corrosive elements of saltwater but will not stop cor rosion completely. Remember to rinse all of your equipment
Fly fishing is my business and my passion, and I’m known to get a little too enthusiastic when explaining the feeling of watching a trout sip a dry fly off a pristine stream. As a fly fishing guide, it’s my job to not only to put clients on fish, but instruct them on ento mology, reading the river and casting, helping them become better anglers. I spend quite a bit of time on the water teach ing clients, friends and fami ly how to cast and catch fish. Here are a few tips if you are interested in fly fishing, but don’t know how to begin:
Stephanie Winter is a fly fishing guide at Big Hole Lodge in Wise River, MT. Find the lodge at flyfishinglodge.com and more fish pics on her instagram @stephrwinter.
When choosing flies, you’ll want some combination of dry flies, nymphs, streamers for freshwater and streamers for saltwater. Placement of the fly is much more import ant than the fly itself, so don’t worry about getting a ton of different flies before you have some accuracy casting. Just
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I’m a big proponent of bor rowing a fly fishing set up before you buy your own en suring you like the sport be fore you drop a hefty chunk of change on equipment. But once you’ve decided fly fish ing is for you it’s important to buy the right equipment. Make sure you talk to some one at a fly shop about the right rod, reel, and fly line before you make a purchase. Blindly choosing a setup on line can end up costing you a lot of money for the wrong products. You don’t need the fanciest, most high-tech equipment available but you need the basics. A five or six weight is good when fishing freshwater for trout, bass and panfish. An eight to ten weight works well for saltwater when fishing for Stripers, False Al bacore, Bonefish, Redfish and in freshwater for Pike, Muskie, Steelhead and Salmon.
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striped bass, bluefish, bo nito, and false albacore are available in the salt. If you have never caught a boni to or albacore on the fly, I can't possibly recommend it strongly enough.
To me, this change signals the end of the main fishing season is near. Migratory fish that came to our waters to feast on the abundance of baitfish, have begun their journey to warmer climates. Those that are still here are feeding heavily in an effort to put on weight for the trip and to bulk up for winter.
Having chased salmon, steelhead, stripers, and ev ery other local gamefish species, I knew it was time to commit to only using a fly rod for false albacore. It takes only one hookup to understand what all the excitement is about. False albacore can get you from hook set to backing in un
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If you want to give it a shot, I suggest looking up a lo cal guide. Their knowledge and experience chasing these speedsters will set you up for success. The wa ters off Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the south coast of Cape Cod are the main playground for these mini-tuna, with good num bers also found along the shores of Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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Last, but not least, we fished Skilak Lake, which feeds the Kenai River from the center of the peninsula. This was my favorite place to fish. It is as beautiful as it is full of fish. We stayed 18 days in Alaska and spent our 17th on Skilak, where we slayed the fish. We landed and released more than 100 reds, silvers and trout that day! It was a great note to end our trip.
If you ever get the chance to fish the Kenai Peninsula, you will love it. Get a group of friends, do some research and go. Fish with a guide or on your own. There are so many options and so many fish that it’s hard not to have an amazing adventure.
By Gary Turner
We also fished from a boat on the Kenai River, where anchored to deploy small Kwikfish. These lures settle into the current near the bottom and vibrate. Fish swimming upstream see them and attack. Unlike the red salmon, which aren’t interested in eating, the pink (humpback) and silver (coho) salmon jumped all over this setup.
Gary Turner is a long-time contributor to The Angler Magazine. Contact him at gary@purgeright.com.
Our lodging was in Soldotna, near the mouth of the Kenai River on Cook Inlet. That’s where we fished the Kenai River for red (sockeye) salmon. The famous king salmon season closed before we arrived this year, or we would have been fishing for them. We “flossed” for reds, which is a technique used in rivers to catch salmon that are more interested in their spawning run than they are in feeding. Basically, you use a weighted leader. As pods of fish swim upstream, the line threads an open mouth and you snag the fish when the hook pulls tight. This was combat-style fishing. We stood a rod’s length from other anglers, and it was mayhem when someone hooked up.
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We also ventured south from Soldotna to the Kasilof River and caught salmon and trout. We crossed the peninsula to Seward and fished the Resurrection River for silvers, pinks and dog (chum) salmon. The river was full of fish, so we fished until it was too dark to see the bears and called it a day at midnight.
Twice, we traveled northeast by van to Hope, Alaska, where we fished for pinks in Resurrection Creek. They were so thick that we stayed busy catching and releasing them after we all caught our limits. On our second trip to Resurrection, we went in search of silvers but they had not arrived yet, so we caught pinks
again. It was so fun!
laska’s Kenai Peninsula is a world-renowned fishery, known for all of its salmon runs, of which the Kenai River king salmon run is the most famous. The saltwater fishing out of Homer, Deep Creek and Seward are also amazing. I’ve been to Alaska fishing several times, and this year I fished the fresh and the salt with five friends who were all on their first trip. Here’s a quick look at what we did in freshwater. I’ll write about our saltwater adventures in the future.
Second only to the Kenai’s fishing is the scenery. There is a majestic feel to this area. The views are beautiful, there is amazing wildlife and tons of stuff to see. We saw it all as we drove all over the place chasing fish.
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advertise their suitability as mates. The big boys spar with each other for the opportunity to fertilize eggs. They become ornery, and are cocked to lash out at anything that catches their eye.
By Nick Carter
Across the East, brown trout spawn in a window that runs from midSeptember into December. Males and females of the species leave their summer lies to strike out upstream in search of spawning habitat. They are on the move and more visible to anglers than at any other time of year.
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Nick Carter is author of “Flyfisher’s Guide to North Carolina & Georgia.” It is available on Amazon or by contacting the author at nsc8957@gmail.com.
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Alex McCrickard has a go-big or go-home attitude when it comes to fall browns. He’s a former fly fishing guide and the current aquatic education coordinator for the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. As the days grow shorter, McCrickard breaks out his heavy 6- and 7-weight rods to sling big streamers.Onsmaller streams, he’ll fish floating line with a 9-foot leader that tapers down to no lighter than 2x tippet. The long leader allows a weighted streamer to get down in the water column, and 2x has a breaking strength of about 10 pounds. It’s more than enough to handle the 14- to 20-inchers you might encounter in a creek or stream.
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ust and jealousy make males of many species do stupid things they wouldn’t normally do. This is true for humans and whitetail deer, and it’s also true for brown trout, which grow aggressive this time of year as they gear up for the spawn.
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While the females become preoccupied with cutting nests, called redds, on shallow gravel bars in moving water, the males put on bright colors to
The timing is different on every piece of water, but October is thought to be the peak of pre-spawn behavior for most streams and rivers. Since big browns are more aggressive than they are at any other time of year, anglers who target them should fish aggressively.
On a big tailwater, McCrickard gears up with 250-grain sinking line and runs a short 3-foot leader of 0x tippet. If the water is dingy, he’ll fish 3 feet of straight 20-pound monofilament.
“A productive day is relative. When you’re throwing a 10-foot 7-weight and a 250-grain full sinking line with 3 feet of 20-lb. monofilament, you’re not really going for numbers anymore,” said McCrickard. “You’re looking for one, maybe two fish. You kind of have to go out there with the mentality of, ‘I might get skunked today, but I might catch my best fish of the year… or the best fish I’ve caught in the last five years.’”
“If I have that fish that’s two feet or larger, I’m feeling really confident having that fish on 20-pound as opposed to having it on 2x,” he said.
On large or small water, pre-spawn browns will hit bigger flies than you’d think they would. This could be a 2- to 3-inch-long Woolly Bugger on a mountain stream or a 6-inch-long articulated pattern on a big river. Either way, it’s a game of covering water persistently and presenting the fly to as many fish as possible.
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Two hours later, the big fish was boatside. They roped its tail and used the T-top as a pulley to bring it onboard. It measured 104 inches fork length and had a 53-inch girth.
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The angler, 59-year-old Cary Carney, was fishing aboard the 32-foot Willow B, which was captained by his son Brandon Carney. They were fishing in about 1,300 feet of water on Aug. 21, when the big broadbill ate a strip of albacore belly. They had the fish on an electric Diawa MP3000 reel, but a blown fuse rendered it inoperable. Carney buckled down and cranked the fish in by hand on 65-pound test line.
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Carney’s swordfish crushed the previous state record by more than 60 pounds. The old record of 441 pounds had stood since 1979. The thing is, if they had hauled it in with the electric reel, it would not have qualified for the record.The
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