Big Easy Fishing Charters
Michael Roecker’s group with a limit of Amberjack
If the cold fronts start pushing down like some Novembers, we will see our usual push of Spanish mackerel from the beach out to 60’ of water. Clark spoons and small feather jigs work great, always watch the sky for birds as well as for surface action since they’ll be feeding as they move south.
Cooler water should move some fish into the 60’ reefs. Live bait slow trolled on the surface around structure should produce some king mackerel as well as a few cobia. It’s good to keep a spinning rod with a cobia jig ready just in case. Cobia are curious creatures that will often pop up when you stop over a piece of structure. The 80- and 90-foot reef should produce some good catches of lane snapper, trigger fish, and mutton snapper on the bottom. Also, good chance for kings and cobia. I don’t expect to see the big cold fronts we’ll see in December and January but just a slight cool down will change our water temps enough to move some fish.
Offshore we will start to see some sailfish action, a few black fin tuna, occasional wahoo or dolphin around rips, temperature changes and weed lines. This will be good news for anyone that got new trolling gear and is itching to drag some ballyhoo. The bottom structure from 160’ to 260’ should have good numbers of amberjack. There always a good backup if the trolling bite is slow is to catch some live baits, threadfins, blue runners or grunts to drop a big rod down for an amberjack. Also known as Reef Donkey!
It’s been an amazing year for good weather. I’m hoping November gives us more of the same. As always support your local tackle shops, that’s where we buy our bait and tackle. They typically know what’s biting and what we’re catching it on.
Fish on, gotta go!
Capt. Terry Wildey
Big Easy Fishing Charters
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