Go Fish for 12/9/12 by Capt. Bill Miller

The “Fishing with Bill Miller” film crew fished with Capt. Rachel Nobbe Cato this week looking for variety fishing.

Out first stop was the south Skyway Bridge where a mixed bag of white bait and greenbacks were gathered with two throws of the cast net. Anchoring under the bridge and chumming with a mix of jack mackerel, water and oats brought the bait within easy range of Nobbe Cato’s net.

The rocks around the main span of the Skyway produced lots of mangrove snapper, grunts, grouper, mackerel and ladyfish. Fresh cut chum kept the fish chummed up and out of the rocks making it easier to catch them on light tackle.

Terra Ceia Bay was out next stop looking for flounder. Sand holes and hard edges on the flats provided easy pickings. We used small to medium white baits on light spinning rods with a small split shot leads to get the bait onto the sandy bottom.

Slowly reeling the baits along the sand bottom help us cover more bottom area and produced more strikes.

The bite of a flounder is subtle. When a flounder hit our slowly moving bait it would just stop as we reeled. A five count allowed the flounder to eat the bait and a reeling hook set with a circle hook completed the hook up.

Capt. William Toney reports good fishing for reds and trout in Homosassa. The warm weather still has some fish on the flat hard bottoms but many have moved into the creeks and the river. Live shrimp or a jig under a clicking cork has been getting the most fish.

Eddie Herrington caught a 27 pound king off the Redington Pier.