Inshore
The cold weather should really get the speckled trout packed into the bayous, canals and rivers. The canals off Santa Rosa Sound in Gulf Breeze and Bayou Texar are always a couple places worth trying this time of year.
Quite a few sheepshead are being found around the bridges. They can be caught using small hooks with live shrimp or fiddler crabs.
Bull redfish shouldn't be too hard to find right now in Pensacola Bay. If you can't find them on the surface, try fishing for them on the bottom in Pensacola Pass or around the Pensacola Bay Bridge.
Offshore
The weather has been horrible for the most part and has made getting offshore impossible for a lot of people.
There have only been a few reports from anglers going bottom fishing, but it sounds like the bite is on fire. There are lots of nice amberjack being found on the big wrecks and also on the Edge. They can be caught with live bait and vertical jigs.
The reports have been few and far between from local boats going to the deepwater rigs, but now is as good of a time as any to get after the tuna and wahoo.
Piers & Beaches
Like I said last week, cold weather and a north wind — which we're experiencing right now — bring loads of bonita to the Pensacola Beach Gulf Fishing Pier and Navarre Beach Fishing Pier.
Fishing has been excellent on the Pensacola Bay Fishing Bridge. Good numbers of white trout are being caught daily, along with redfish, sheepshead and black drum.
Freshwater
For the most part it sounds like the freshwater bite has been hard to keep track of with the weather changing so often.
Although now is the time and the temperature is right to look for striped bass in Escambia, Blackwater and other nearby rivers.
≈~≈Daily Catch Team≈~≈
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