Goos bite in Sarasota, despite the wind!

I was out of town for most of the week, but got home in time to run a couple of Sarasota fishing charters over the weekend. It was quite breezy, but the bite was steady, especially early before it really cranked up. The deep grass at the Middlegrounds was productive, with clients on trips casting Gulp! Shrimp on 1/4 ounce jig heads, catching speckled trout, pompano, jacks, grouper, ladyfish, big sailcats, and more. There was some VERY nice bait out on the beaches, and chumming produced snook and jacks in the passes and along mangrove shorelines as well as trout and ladyfish on the flats. Snook are scattered out all over the place, from the beach, passes, and into the bays. {%image_id=56214%}