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- BLUEFISH
- Usually migrates to area in early winter months. Will hit silver or gold spoons, plugs and can be taken on bottom rigs with cut bait. The jetties, port area, and the surf are all productive areas. Daily bag limit is 10 and fish must measure at least 12 inches to the fork.
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- BLACK DRUM
- Can be taken in large numbers around bridges and pilings. When caught, this fish will try to break you off on the barnacles of the pilings and bridge columns. Use a heavy leader for a better chance of landing one. The choice bait is crushed blue crab, but they will also hit on clams and pieces of baitfish.
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- FLOUNDER
- Winter months are best for the bigger fish. They can be caught at the Port and jetty inlets. The choice baits are live finger mullet, mud minnows or small pinfish fished on a sliding sinker rig worked slowly across the bottom.. Slack tide usually brings the better catches and flounder like sandy bottoms. Daily bag limit is 10 and the minimum size is 12 to the fork.
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- MANGROVE SNAPPER
- Can be taken in large numbers around pilings, bridges, and rocks around the jetties. Use shrimp or pilchards and a small hook for better luck. Warm weather increases the numbers caught. Daily bag limits are 5 and the minimum size is 10 inches.
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- REDFISH (RED DRUM)
- A gamefish usually taken from the river or inlets, with a fall run sometimes coordinating with the fall mullet run around the jetties. Will hit live baits, including shrimp and mullet on sliding-sinker bottom rigs, and also bucktail, gold spoons and trout tout jigs. Top water plugs can be productive on the flats when seen tailing. Daily bag limit is one fish between 18 and 27 inches.
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- SNOOK
- A gamefish caught on live baits including shrimp, croaker, pinfish, pigfish, mojarra and mullet, or artificial such as flair jigs, bucktail jigs, Bombers, Windcheaters, Snook Slayers, Mirrolures and Mavericks. Can be found by the jetties, around lighted docks and structures. In the rivers they can be found along deep mangrove shorelines and structures. Daily bag limit is two a person. Must be a minimum of 24 inches and only one can exceed 34 inches.
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- SEA TROUT
- Can be caught at the jetties and the surf, with the largest numbers being taken in the rivers. During the warmer months most of the trout can be found on the grass flats in the rivers. During the colder months you might have to hunt for them in the deeper holes, creeks, and canals. They can be caught on live shrimp, mullet, and artificial baits. Daily bag limits for this area is 5 fish between 15-20 inches and you can keep one over 20 inches. Season is closed in this area all of November and December.
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- SHEEPSHEAD
- Usually caught around pilings and bridges using fiddler crabs or shrimp for bait. Daily bag limits are 15 and minimum size is 12 inches to the fork.
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- SPANISH MACKEREL
- Another late fall or early winter migrant usually caught from the jetties, the port area, or the surf. They'll hit small spoons, like the Diamond Jig, or small live baits fished under floats. Daily bag limit is 10 and minimum size limit is 12 inches to the fork.
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