Re: fishing tampa area
hey gil, stay off the pipe! you must be retarded!<br /><br />i have lived here for 30 years, the fishing is NOT DEAD! go bad mouth somebody elses area!<br /><br />kingfish ARE keepers, getting up and past 40 inches.<br /><br />you can catch keepr size grouper and snapper within a half mile of shore by eggmont key.<br /><br />how bout 36 pound redfish. my buddy was busting em up all week. redfish are gooood eatin'.<br /><br />how bout 100 plus pound tarpon , on the INLAND waters!<br /><br />how bout cobia and snook bigger than the yardstick measuring device, so you have to GUESS the length they are so long.<br /><br />permit, trout, snapper, snook, redfish, grouper, cobia,kingfish, spanish mackeral can all be had here! among others.<br /><br />now, how far out do you have to go? for big tuna and dolphin. id say a good 40-50 miles. you need to be in some deep, blue waters for that stuff.<br /><br />heck, if you know where to go, you could stay within a half mile of land and catch so much, big, good eating fish, that you would have to start throwing em back and still go home with a hundred pounds of eating!!!!<br /><br />gil, go back to cathing pinfish!