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On: Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:37AM | By: Captain Larry McGuire

We have some great catches going on right now and the weather is beautiful for this time of year. On Show Me The Fish Charters operating out of the Bradenton Beach Marina, fishing out of a custom 31 ft Morgan Sport fisherman, my parties are catching bone-bruising amberjack, red grouper, scamp, mangrove snappers, porgys, triggerfish, sea bass, bonita (little tunnys), blacktip sharks up to 5 ft, and an over-abundance of catch-and-release gag grouper. Best action is starting out about 115 ft offshore of Anna Maria and Longboat Key. Going out to 150 ft to the deeper ledges and wrecks it gets even more wilder and crazy with larger fish. Extra large pinfish have been working magic this week for AJs and smaller baits for the mangrove snapper and other tasty reef fish. The red grouper are eating anything we put down. On a couple of trips I have seen red grouper come up with fried chicken bones in their mouths someone must have dropped overboard.

One another note: if you want to keep grouper you need to hurry up; the red, scamp and black grouper go out of season Feb 1 to March 31. The weather forecast looks perfect the next 4 days, the fish are biting, and life is good. Now is the time to come on out and get ya some.

Sources: Captain Larry McGuire
Posted In: Fishing, Fishing Reports
Tags: Captain Larry McGuire, anna maria island

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Fantastic fishing offshore!!

Stephy21 | 10:40AM (Tue, Jan 24, 2012)