Estero Bay Report

With all the rain the water conditions have changed as so too has the bite. Anglers are having the best luck on the last bit of outgoing tide. The reds are chewing around the mangroves and oyster bars on cut pinfish, ladyfish, and the occasional hand picked free-lined shrimp. The passes are producing good numbers of spanish mackerel, seatrout, ladyfish, and bluefish. Shrimp under popping corks or dragging shrimp tipped jig heads will work best. There are plenty of mangrove snapper in the backbays and shrimp tipped jig heads will work best. Oyster bars, mangrove edges or any structure will produce fish.