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inter fishing in the Florida Keys can be a double-edged sword. This time of year can be limited by more frequent windy days. However, some of our best fishing occurs very close to land this time of year, and you don’t have to go far to get into the heart of it. Snapper are always a viable option on the reef, and targeting them also provides the opportunity to fill up the livewell with fresh ballyhoo to use for sailfish, which will be showering bait under diving frigates. If you happen to get out there on a sporty day, and the thought of rocking on anchor first thing in the morning makes your stomach turn, wahoo might be a better option. Trolling lures can be productive for targeting wahoo, and reduces the rocking of the boat that causes seasickness. Utilizing deep-diving lures, planers and trolling sinkers, there are countless ways to set up an efficient wahoo spread that can be pulled at varying speeds. Since wahoo like their baits moving quickly, high-speed trolling is a great way to target them while lessening other species as bycatch. Another great option for wahoo fishing is using live bait. This method is more exciting, and uses bait that can be acquired without dropping anchor. With wahoo rigs already set with wire leaders, and extra prerigged leaders on hand, head out to the wrecks to catch fresh bait. When targeting bigger baits like bonita, blue runners and goggle eyes for wahoo, use a heavier rod and reel, with the appropriately overpowered sabiki rig. Accounting for tangles, breakoffs and unwanted mackerel attention, make sure to have more than a few extra sabiki rigs on board. Affix a weight to the sabiki and drop it down to fill the well with blue runners, or troll the sabiki over schools of bonita, hooking them immediately to the wahoo rig and sending them back out. Power drift or bump troll a spread of live baits with some weightless, flatlined on the surface, or even under a kite, and others at varying depths with a breakaway weight or downrigger. Watching a hungry wahoo skyrocket on a surface bait provides all the adrenaline needed to knock any lingering seasickness out of you. Wahoo are excellent table fare, and they are also one of the best fighting fish you can target. Keep in mind that if your line goes slack, they might be swimming toward the boat. It is a wahoo until it’s not a wahoo, so keep reeling until you see the end of your line. Charter fishing in the Florida Keys is busy during the winter, so make sure to book your charter in advance. Sweet E’nuf Charters offers gift certificates for all the Santas out there with fishermen in the family. Capt. Quinlyn Haddon, of Sweet E’nuf Charters, operates out of Marathon, Florida Keys. Check out her website at CaptainQuinlyn.com, her social @captainquinlyn or call (504) 920-6342.
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old water makes catching fish more difficult, right? Not with crappie, according to allaround outdoorswoman Terrie Huffmaster. She looks forward to deep winter, when she can load the boat with the biggest slabs of the year. Huffmaster is a South Georgia farm girl from Quitman, way down on the Florida border, so she calls crappie speckled perch, or specks for short. “You catch the bigger specks in wintertime,” she said. “I like to go into the deeper water trolling for them.” A great thing about crappie is they’re predictable. In spring they move shallow to spawn, but throughout the rest of the year they are nomads in search of comfortable water temperatures. You’ll always find them near structure or cover, and they are usually schooled up tightly. Huffmaster fishes for specks on Lake
Seminole, a nearly 40,000-acre impoundment that straddles the Georgia/Florida border. It’s a relatively shallow lake, full of stumps, brush and submerged grass. When Huffmaster says “deeper water,” she means the deepest water Seminole has, which is 25 to 30 feet. Trolling delivers both quality and quantity when water temps are in the mid to high 50s. But Huffmaster isn’t looking for a 30-fish limit. She’s hunting 10 or so giant specks in the 15- to 18inch range. She catches a lot of smaller fish in the process, but she throws those back. “When you get on ’em good, it’s crazy how
many you can catch,” she said. This is how she gets on them: Huffmaster has a line she trolls that she’s identified on electronics and with previous success. It’s just outside a channel marker, where there’s a ton of submerged trees, stumps and other brush and debris to hold fish. She pulls jigs over deep water and up over humps and ledges that rise to as little as 5 feet. “You keep that trolling motor on low,” she said, “just enough where your line’s pulling, where you’re barely trolling.” Huffmaster said there’s no need to deploy huge spreads from a bank of rod holders. She fishes just one, maybe two rods at a time. Her favorites are a lightweight Mr. Crappie Slab Shaker combo and a Lew’s 6-foot Ultra Light with a Lazer Light Speed Spin 75 reel. She spools up with 8-to 10-pound braided main line and uses a 4- or 6-pound fluorocarbon leader tied to a 1/16-ounce Crappie Magnet Fin Spin or a Mr. Crappie jig head. Paddletail and curly tail bodies both have their place. Chartreuse/pearl and pumpkin are good colors. She trolls her jigs 10 to 15 feet behind the boat and keeps a loose drag so the hook doesn’t tear out of a crappie’s paper-thin mouth. “Call me old fashioned, but that’s how we do it,” she said. “And we don’t seem to have any problem catching a mess of them… and some big ones. Search up Terrie B Huffmaster on Facebook and terries_dusk_2_dawn_fishing on Instagram.
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Which Would You Change First? By Capt. Michael Okruhlik
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hange is inevitable. In all aspects of life, change is necessary. This is especially true for anglers. When things are not going right, we immediately think of the next lure to throw. We all embark on our fishing journeys with a plan before hitting the water. We may base it on predicted conditions, time of year, experience, or possibly, but hopefully not, a social media post. Let’s discuss what I would do when plan-A doesn’t produce as envisioned. Imagine we are in the perfect looking spot, conditions are exactly as planned, active bait is visible in the area, the tide is flowing, but nothing is biting. Most of us would make a change, and I think we are all in agreement that our first correction would not be to move with everything looking right. Now, here is where I feel most people will make a mistake. Let’s say we are throwing soft-plastic paddletails. What is the first thing you would change?
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the big one has caused fishermen to focus on color first. I have found more success in changing the size of the lure over the color. The fish are typically not feeding on anything that resembles the color we are throwing, but they are feeding on a specific size that we have in our box. Matching the forage size is the better option. If that doesn’t produce a bite, then I will even switch the style of lure before the color in most situations. Ultra-clear water is an exception, and these conditions play by different rules. We can cover that in another article, but until then focus less on color and more on size and action. Take a kid fishing and enjoy the outdoors. Capt. Michael Okruhlik is the inventor of Knockin Tail Lures®, and the owner of www.MyCoastOutdoors.com.
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inter has arrived and the speckled trout fishing is definitely showing it! In this month’s article, we are going to discuss 3 areas you need to be fishing to target speckled trout this winter.
Mud Flats As the water temps continue to drop with every cold front, speckled trout are going to continue to push further up in to our creeks and rivers in search of warmth. The mud-layered bottom of these creeks is a good insulator of heat. The muddier and softer the bottom is the better the spot will be. A key area I look for when finding these spots are open bays or flats in close relation to creek or river channels.
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Channels Lastly, I like to look for deep channels in the 20 – 30 foot range. Speckled trout will gather in huge schools in deeper water. I prefer to fish these areas on gloomy days when there is more cloud coverage than sunshine. When mapping out and looking for these areas always try to focus your efforts in areas that hold a lot of underwater structure as this is where the baitfish will congregate and the speckled trout will not be far behind. I hope you all find this article helpful and gets you out there on some big trout this winter. There are also several videos covering these topics and many others on our YouTube channel “Southern Salt Kayak Fishing”. Be sure to head over these and subscribe to our channel. Until next time, tight lines and good luck!
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Stuffing:
Stuffed Flounder
In the fall when the temps cool, fishing for flounder is hot and full of action as they start leaving the bayous and head out to big water! They can be caught by using live bait such as mullet or mud minnows near structures like rocks, bridges, or oyster beds. Artificial lures like the Hoodwink from Southern Salt Bait Company can be just as effective. Fish during tidal movements, especially on outgoing tides. Patience and attention to your surroundings will increase your chances of a successful flounder catch! You never know, you just may find a “Door Mat” like I did and used for this delicious recipe!!
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1 sweet onion, finely minced 1 green bell pepper, finely minced 1lbs lump crabmeat, picked 1/2lb shrimp, cleaned and finely chopped 2tbsp fresh Italian parsley, chopped 1 large egg 1 cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs 2 tsp Cajun seasoning, we use Redfish Magic for everything seafood related Pinch of kosher salt
1 Flounder, Scaled and deboned. We used a 6lb flounder and had plenty of stuffing. You can use a few smaller flounder if that’s what you’ve caught!
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Melt butter in large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and bell pepper and cook until softened.
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Add your crab meat last and stir carefully to avoid breaking up the clumps of meat too much.
Flounder instructions: 1.
Cut a slit lengthwise from head to tail, down the dark side of the flounder with a sharp filet knife. Use the knife to make pockets on both sides by cutting along the backbone of the fish. Get all the way to the fins but be careful to not cut through! Do the same on the other side. Use kitchen shears and cut the bones down each side of flounder. Cut the backbone at the tail and remove the bones and discard.
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