Making the best of winter time fishing.

Winter and especially the month of Jan. can be one of our most challenging months of fishing here on the West coast of Florida. Our inshore trips have consisted of fishing deeper darker waters for sheepshead,redfish,black drum,and mangrove snapper with mackeral,pompano,ladyfish and jacks filling in the gaps. The offshore trips have been producing BIG gag grouper, red grouper, nice mangrove snapper and some sheepshead. If you like good eating those key west grunts are filling coolers. I suggest that on those nice calm days , wich we haven't had too many of in the last week or two, going offshore, and on any other day know that you can take refuge somewhere from the cold and still catch fish, bend the rod and have a good time. After all this is Florida.