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Ruth Anderson


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The Shark-Tooth Coast

End of the year report!

With colder temperatures again here along our Shark-Tooth Coast, Charlotte Harbor through Nokomis Florida, anglers can expect to find much of the action taking place in the deeper waters of the Venice Inlet, as well as in holes throughout the canals, under docks and piers of the area. Live shrimp fished very slowly in these areas are catching trout, black drum and redfish. Best bet right now around Venice, Florida is the Alley, which is accessible both by boat and along its shoreline of the ICW. El Jobean pier has trout, mangroves and some slow to go big Snook up under the boards. Plenty of Sugar Trout to eat up your baits to, so bring the kids because, there is a lot of catching to do and they don't care; they caught a fish. Remember those days? As usual, plenty of ray to go along too, so be careful of the tail. Placida as well, Englewood on these cold snaps on the incoming tide, early in the frigid mornings have been producing nice heads (Sheepshead) on shrimp to fiddlers. The rocks to along the inlet will pull up a head or two along with the Mangos and many a tackle eating rock. Lots of rockfish to loose your rigs to, so bring plenty of gear. Before the blow of Christmas, reports of a few flounder off both Venice and Nokomis beaches on DOA or Luv lures pulled dead slow and using cut bait to live shrimp. Sharks to big Jew fish (Goliath) have been caught off the boards in Venice out on the “T” with those with serious gear, as that is to what they are fishing for and big boys are but what are out there. Cut baits to live mullets on six to eight foot and longer steel wire and 12/0 or better hooks, generally mean big fish. Boaters in the area are talking about the tripletail out along the crab-lines and a few Cobia too.

Back in the canals to the river it has been slow to no on the Bass with even shell cracker and his sun buddies too on the hide. Best action on the North Port Canals we saw was a 8 foot gator startled off the bank as we slipped by in our canoe, a few ducks and a bass, sunning itself in six inches of water that was a state record in the making; though he wanted nothing we had to offer and with a flip of the tail, he was gone. Nice Pan fish and small buckets on minnows from Captain Moss at his bait & tackle shop in North Port, from up the river along with some nice sized channels reported.

”FISH ON!”