By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
This past week’s angling had its ups and downs for both night-shift and day-shift anglers. The redfish still produced great catches both day and night with some really great night action, with flounder being caught along the bulkheads. Rollover Bay waders fishing the deeper guts and gullies of the channel racked up on the flat-fish. What’s happening is the smaller males are beginning to mass for the spawn run to the Gulf but this won’t start until cold fronts cool the flats. Then they will begin the run, with the larger females right behind them. We’ve had a Spanish Mackerel run on the Gulf side which provided plenty of excitement for the sport anglers with one 6-lber landed. This years croaker run was exceptional, filling the fish fry boxes in those homeward bound coolers.
Speckled Trout
Slow in the cut, with night-shift anglers getting most of the action with mostly small illegal specks hitting (Limit: 15 inches minimum for 10 trout with only one over 25 inch trout per day allowed as part of your daily limit).
Redfish (Red Drum)
Good fishing for the slot and bull reds but the redfish run for this Fall is about over (Limit: 20 inches minimum to 28 inch maximum for 3 reds per day. One over 28 inch red -plus bonus red- allowed when properly tagged in addition to your 3 fish limit).
Black Drum
A few pups and bulls still hitting (Limit: 14 inch minimum to 30 inch maximum for 5 fish per day with one OVER 52 inches allowed).
Flounder
Fair to good with mainly the smaller males showing up with bay-waders picking up most of the keepers. This week’s cold front should get the flounder run started (Limit: 14 inch minimum for 5 fish per day).
Sheepshead
SLOW (Limit: 15 inch minimum with 5 per day Creel).
Gafftop Catfish
Slow (Limit: 14 inch minimum for no limit creel).
Whiting/Croaker
Whiting in the surf are excellent. Croaker run is about over but still active with many Bulls from 12 to 15 coming in with a few Mega-Bull croaker to 18 inches being caught (No Limits).
Sandtrout/Gulftrout
Sand trout are active but the Gulf trout run is slow (No Limits).
Blue Claw Crab
Slow (Limit: 5 inches between points with no berry crabs (females with eggs) allowed).
Stone Crabs
A few stones coming in from the rocky areas (Limit: only right claw may be kept when 2-1/2 inches above first knuckle).
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