By Ed Snyder/Outdoors
This past week offered great fishing for some but slow fishing for others. Boaters and Bay-waders enjoyed great flounder action with many limits being caught and boxed. Bulkhead anglers experienced good and bad days as smaller male flounder were still the mainstay catches with a few larger females being caught. It is going to take a cold front chilling the flats to get the females off the beds and through the cut. Unfortunately, this may not happen until November when conservation rule takes effect from 5 flounder to just two flounder per day legal catch. Even though their Autumn runs are over, Redfish and Golden Croaker are still active. Speckled trout are showing up in better numbers now that the shrimp are moving out of the bay through the cut. Night-shift anglers are catching good trout under lights.
Speckled Trout
Good night-shift runs of specks chasing shrimp. Day-shift finding them scattered in the bay and surf (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)
Although the Fall runs are over, the slot and bull reds are still providing great action in the cut and the surf (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
Mostly undersized pups with a few keeper eaters and bulls being caught (Limit: 14 inch minimum to 30 inch maximum for 5 fish per day with one OVER 52 inches allowed).
Flounder
Good to GREAT flatfish action with one out of five being a legal catch with a few nice doormats being landed to 24 inches (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
Although the croaker run is all but over, they are still active with a few 15 inchers being caught. Whiting in the surf and cut are just as active (No Limit).
Sandtrout/Gulftrout
Good sand trout action but no Gulf trout as yet (No Limit).
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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