Palm Island Fishing Report by Capt. Mike Slattery

With a slight change in the weather over the Thanksgiving holiday, we are changing up our game inshore.  The bait has thinned out a bit as expected with the dip in bay temps.  With this seasonal change, we bolt on our jugs and turn our attention to the deep tidal sand bottom channels in the bay.  We focus our casts along the edges of the grass finger bars and edges of the flats.  This technique affords us the ability to catch a multitude of species, even in the most undesirable conditions.  The idea is to get your bait to the bottom.  This will typically yield a variety of inshore species.  A few that are a bit more desirable are, pompano, flounder, and trout.  With catch rates typically high using this technique, it a great time to be fishing in South West Florida!

Capt. Mike Slattery
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