Tampa Florida Fishing News, Tips & Updates | Hubbards Marina

Fishing report Inshore - Big pompano caught this week from the Jetty at Johns Pass, sheepshead showing up, black drum are starting to be more prolific and overall lots of bait in the area. The big pompano we are referring too was so large it broke the anglers rod lifting him over the rocks measuring over eighteen inches to the fork! He caught him on a live shrimp weighted to the bottom on the first half of the incoming tide. Big sheepshead are starting to become more and more common place around Johns Pass around the pilings of the bridge and docks in the area, I love to fish the seawalls and docks on the North east side of Johns Pass when fishing by boat or fish the south seawall of Johns Pass when fishing from shore for the sheeps or the Hubbard’s marina dock is a great place to fish as long as our office is open and were not loading and unloading boats you are more than welcome to fish on the dock, and we have all the bait, beer and ice you need in the shop!   Triple tail

Fishing report Inshore- The triple tail are thick along the beaches right now with stone crab season in full swing. The crab trap buoys make a great collection zone for the triple tail to hide out and ambush passing bait. We like to use live shrimp or small greenback under a popping cork that give it plenty of weight to cast the bait past the buoy and retrieve it to the strike zone. DOA shrimp work well too If you don’t have live bait readily available on board. The sheepshead are thick around Johns Pass bridge, the docks in the pass and along the jetties eating pieces of shrimp, oysters, fiddler crabs and barnacles. The amount of sheepshead and their aggressiveness will only get better and better as the water continues to cool, especially behind the cold fronts the sheepshead action is really good. Today and tomorrow should be a great time to go out and target those good eating sheepshead around the pass due to the front stirring up the waters and cooling them down. Besides t