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Fishing Report Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Saturday, May 23, 2007 Condition VERY VERY Windy Location South Sarasota Bay (Osprey area) Tide In coming Style (Spinning) Report Fished with Capt. Scott Dalton looking for new spots - The wind really (being from the east, which fish bite the least - which Capt. Scott said about two dozen time) blow like a gale - We took off from Ken Thompson Park and our first spot was CB Outfitters. We fished from there south to South Creek. We saw some reds and only caught snook. Nothing bite on the west side but the east side wow. We used all colors of Exudes. - Capt. Keith
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Saturday, May 12, 2007 Condition Windy Location Sarasota Bay Tide In coming until 11am Style (Spinning) Report Fished with Capt. Scott Dalton in the Sarasota Division Xtreme Redfish Tournament - Used Berkley Glups and managed to catch more than redfish - here's the list : 15 Redfish, 3 snook (one in slot), 2 Sharks, 3 Bluefish, and numbers of pins and ladies. We looked for broken bottom and murky water - The Tournament? We came in 4th Place - Capt. Keith
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Saturday, May 5, 2007 Condition Windy Location Terra Ciea Bay Tide High - Going out Style (Spinning) Report Fished with the wife looking for Sea Trout. Caught many using Cotee Rootbeer color jigs and Big Hammer 1/4 oz heads. Just find a grass flat and jig over and around it. Remember - to jig hard with fast pulls.
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Condition Light Breeze - out of the NNW Location Terra Ciea Bay Tide High - Going out Style (Spinning) Report Had a special requested half day charter - Live Bait - used Huge shiners and shrimp - fished around docks and points of mangrove islands and caught many Jacks and Snook.
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Monday, April 9, 2007 Condition Windy Location South Sarasota Bay Tide High - Going out Style (Spinning) Report REDFISH - REDFISH - REDFISH - Everywhere, flipping docks - Bird Key. Flip with Berkley Glups, wait for a bump, set the hook, and hold on. It seems that all slot limit reds was caught all day.
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Condition Calm Location North Sarasota Bay Tide High - Going out Style (Spinning) Report Today Capt. Scott Dalton and I flipped docks for two hours - and I mean two hour. We decided to see how well we would do. Well, first we just used Burkley Gulps, he used new penny darts and I used white darts, and we caught one huge black drum, a keeper size flounder, and a slot limit redfish. That is it - enjoy this weekend!
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Condition Windy Location Terra Ciea Tide Out going Style (Spinning) Report REDS - REDS - and SNOOK, What a great day to fish! Took out Dr. Steve Vermium from California. Used white in color Burkely Gulps. Work them the same way as any jerk bait. The real trick is to stop if you think you just had a hit. Then wait for a little bump - then set the hook. Works for us. Targeted areas of broken bottom and mangrove areas.
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Sunday (Morning & Night)- Jan 7, 2007 Condition Windy Location South Sarasota Bay & Evers Lake Tide Low at 9 pm Style (Spinning) Report Had two guys from New Hampshire - wanted 1/2 day freshwater and the other 1/2 day night time salt. First Evers Lake (aka Evers Reservoir, Ward Lake, Braden Lake, etc...) we caught nothing.............. except one huge speck. We used every different bait in the box. We talked to others - the bite must have been off. Now night time - believe it or not - I used live shrimp. We caught everything - 13 to 15 snook (size 18 to 26), 6 to 7 reds (size 12 to 24), grouper, flounder, ladyfish, bluefish, etc... "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Wednesday, Dec 6, 2006 Condition No wind - Colol Location North Sarasota Bay Tide In coming Style (Spinning) Report
Night dock fishing in winter is fantastic. Using artificial or live bait -
you can't go wrong. Snook are hitting any thing that swims or floats. I
prefer white hanging lights posed to the underwater green "Hydro-glow"
lights. Use what ever you like - just remember to cast past or to the side
of the lights and hang on for some fun. When using live bait always cast to
the side - just outside into the shadow part. Try to dock fish from middle
tide rising to high and to middle low tide. Enjoy and watch out for those
barnacles.
"Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Nov 18, 2006 Condition 8+ knot winds Location Okeechobee Lake - Hardy Canal area Tide ZERO - but the level of the lake is very low - heard it was about 12 foot above sea level. Style (Spinning) Report Fished the BASS FOR BUCKS TOURNAMENT and came in 4th - skinny water everywhere - Chocolate milk water with high winds and 40 degree temperature made the trip even more fun! - Capt. Scott Dalton and I had used every bait in my tackle box and Capt. Scott figured out to use white spinner bait (not a buzz bait) and caught many bass up to 4 lbs. - first fished canals and backwater (to keep away from the wind) and caught only dinks using Assalt Salt Stixs - then went out to the lake and fished pointed areas of islands and found schools of Largemouths - Capt. Keith "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Sept. 20, 2006 Condition 3-4 knot winds - Sunny Location Lemon Bay - North of Stump Pass Tide High tide at noon Style (Spinning) Report Looking for reds - found many in areas of broke bottom, 1 to 3 feet in depth - used cootee and big hammer jig heads with Gulp darts - worked them fast to slow (found the faster the better) - caught sizes of 12 to 22 inch and small snake snook - saw or smelled no red tide - Capt. Keith "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Saturday, Aug 26, 2006 Condition Light wind - HOT Location Palma Sola Bay Tide moving Style (Spinning) Report Took my Birthday wife out fishing and caught every junk fish known man. We where using Exudes and Cootee jigs all day and finally caught reds and saw pompanos. In water from two feet to six. Water was semi murky but no redtide - I feel everyone should enjoy fishing NOW before the redtide hits inside. Reports already on south Egmont and coming around Bean Point. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Saturday, Aug 19, 2006 Condition Light wind - VERY HOT Location Sarasota Bay Tide moving out Style (Spinning) Report Reds, reds, and more reds - around any island you choose - Using Exclude baby bass - killed them - Did ventured out side through Longboat Key inlet and saw redtide to the south and all the Spanish Mack to the north. Used small silver and gold spoon - caught over 20 to 30 of those little feeders within a hour. Lots of fun! "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Sunday, June 9, 2006 Condition Light wind - VERY HOT Location Sarasota Bay (South) Tide moving in Style (Spinning) Report Fished numerous areas from North Sarasota Bay south to Blackburn Piont - Fished shallow water using Exudes (mangrove red in color) and caught reds from 27.25 to 30 inches - some small snook (15 inches to 23). Worked the bait kinda slow with quick jerks - used Capt Mikes wieghted hooks - love them. Did hit alot of holes but no reds - all where on the shallow flats - small groups - Capt Keith "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date June7, 2006 Condition 1 - 4 knot winds Location Egmont Key Tide High tide at 9 am Style Tarpon (Spinning) Report IT'S THE TIME FOR TARPON - saw over 100 different tarpon in about 10 to 13 different pods - threw everything but the kitchen sink at them - only had three different hits, many chasing - tarpon was at times so close - could have cast netted them - should o should have taken my fly stuff - maybe next time - Capt. Keith "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Saturday, May 27, 2006 Condition Light wind - VERY HOT Location Sarasota Bay Tide moving in Style (Spinning) Report Capt. Scott and I fished from 7 to 1 and caught about 20 redfish up to 28 inches and snook to 24 inches - We are prefishing for the "1st Annual Redfish Tournament" which will be next week. We got off the water early because of all the jet skis and weekend boat drivers that have no etiquette what-so-ever when it comes to fishing. We used jerk bait - Cottee heads and tails (rootbeer color with red heads). "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date May 22, 2006 Condition 1 - 4 knot winds - Nice - less than 1/4 moon Location South Sarasota Bay (Roberts Bay) Tide Incoming until about Midnight Style Night Fishing (Spinning) Report Took out one heck of a nice guy Jamie Dennis of Bradenton. Very tough night in that only a couple bites and saw dozen after dozen snook hanging out under dock lights. We used everything from lures to live bait (yes, I said live bait) - caught trash from ladys to snakefish - but we did get fully spooled by, we think, a tarpon under the Ringling Bridge around about midnight. Hook him using shrimp. Very tough night! "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Monday - May 8, 2006 Condition Light Breeze Location Lake Evers Style (Spinning) Report Awesome day with a couple from Venice FL, John and Cathy Midkiff. We started late in the day for the afternoon bite. Lake is down about 2 to 3 feet with no flow what-so-ever. Very clear and clean up in the river which makes it easy to spot logs, holes, and nesting beds. Fished with (believe this if you like) D.O.A. CAL jigs (black in color) and pulled in about 12 Large Mouth Bass, the biggest weighing on the "XTOOL Grip-n-weigh" 4 lbs. 3 oz. This 4 hour trip flew by wishing we started earlier and fished longer. Capt. Keith "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed them!"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Saturday - May 6, 2006 Condition Very, very, very windy Location Cockroach Bay South to Terra Ciea Tide incoming Style (Spinning) Report My fishing partner Capt. Scott Dalton and I finally did a 'so called' professional tournament out of Ruskin - IFA Redfish Tour. Fishing was hard, only because of the windy conditions. All artificial - seven hour to fish - 1st Prize $1,500 with a $10,000 boat - only paid through 20 places - 72 teams - no stress! We saw and caught many reds (18' and up), snook (very small up to 28 inches), flounder (nice size to them), trout (all sizes), and of course jacks, ladyfish, etc... We fished in gin clear water - where trying to find muddy waters - for those reds. Fished with Cotee jigs, Exudes, and Burkely Gulps (VERY NEW FOR US). These Burkely Gulps worked wonderful - only if you leave them sitting and every once in awhile twitch them. It was hard to do when you have a time limit. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Saturday - April 29, 2006 Condition Very, very, very windy Location North Sarasota Bay Tide Low @ 7am, High @ 1:00pm Style (Spinning) Report Did one of the best tournaments around
- CCA of Sarasota. Tournament style - they give you the tackle to fish
with. That is right - you can only fish with what they give you.
This year was a nice selection. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Thursday - April 20, 2006 Condition windy Location South Rattlesnake Island in Terra Ciea Bay Tide moving in Style (Spinning) Report Took my family out and targeted trout and found some in 3 to 4 foot deep grass flats with a mixture of blowfish and ladyfish. Caught trout from 18" and smaller. Used Cal Jigs (black top in color) with a Big Hammer head. Fished semi fast jerks but trying to keep it near the bottom just on top of the grass. Seem that the trout would only hit close to the grass. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date April 10, 2006 Time Started Friday 12 to 6 and Saturday safe light to 2 Condition 5-20 knot winds Location Okeechobee Lake - Hardy Pond Area Tide none Style Tournament (Spinning) Report One on the nicest Bass Fishing Tournaments I have ever been too - The Bass 4 Bucks. The Lake produce many bass from 1 to 6 .lbs - First day fished Sportsmens Canal and Fisheating Creek. Used "Big Hammer" salt sticks (blue fleck and red fleck) and "Gary Yamamoto" senkos (two tone - blue to purple fleck). Later that day found bait at the month than switched to crankbait - caught larger bass. The second day - crankbait at mouth - produced a lot bass throwing different baits - finally matched up the bait and caught many more. If you ever want to fish a Bass Tournament - check out www.Bass4Bucks.com "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Mar 23, 2006 Time Started 7:30PM to12:15AM Condition 0 knot winds - until 10:30 PM - Nice - 1/4 moon Location Manatee River - 59th Street Boat Ramp east to Green Bridge Tide Outgoing until about 2:30 AM Style Night Fishing (Spinning) Report Used very small pre-rigged plastics 'Tsunami's" ---one snook --- then switched to a 'Tsunami's" new shrimp (clear color) -- Capt. Scott got two snook and believe it or not -- one trout -- We worked the lighted docks and the outskirts of the lights on the east side of the Green Bridge. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Mar 14, 2006 Condition 10-15 knot winds - Nice - Full moon Location South Sarasota Bay (Roberts Bay) Tide Outgoing until about 7:30pm Style Night Fishing (Spinning) Report Took out Capt. Scott Dalton of Bradenton. Just before night fall - found some nice oyster bars and notices some reds - used Cottee heads and tails (rootbeer color with red heads) - had two look ups - but no fish. At night, fished all artificial - tonight was "Smaller - The Better" - used very small pre-rigged plastics 'Tsunami's" - two snook 23" and 24". Also fished the sound area and caught ladyfish. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date Feb 9, 2006 Condition 30 knot winds - cold - 1/2 moon Location North Anna Maria Island Tide Outgoing until about 11:00pm Style Night Fishing (Spinning) Report Took out Capt. Dave Garcia from Tampa and Capt. Scott Dalton of Bradenton. Fished very hard in really bad weather conditions - we used only Cottee heads and tails (rootbeer color with red heads) and caught numerous redfish (20 to 33 inches) and ladyfish ( too many to count) in the early evening. When night set in, some of us changed to Cal Jigs (glow) - sad to say only one keeper snook put we did have 3 nice reel dragging break offs. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date January 13, 2006 Condition Breezy with 3/4 moon Location South Sarasota Bay (Roberts Bay) Tide Incoming until about 10:00pm Style Night Fishing (Spinning) Report Night fishing in south Sarasota Bay (Roberts Bay) has been fantastic. First, before sunset, fished the flats - in 1 to 4 feet - produced trout in the 20 to 24 inch range and small reds. Flipping jerk bait under lited docks has produced over a dozen snook and reds. Used DOA CAL, black back glow, with a Norton or Cottee head. Working it slow and bouncing off the bottom. Fished under the St. Armems bridge - about 1:00 AM - and caught numerous bluefish and ladys. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date December 28, 2005 Condition Sunny and clear, breezy Location South Sarasota Bay and creeks Tide Very low to incoming Style Flats (Fly Fishing and Spinning) Report Fishing the flats in about two to three feet very clean and clear water - Cotees (motor oil color) caught 1 snook, a 20 and a 21 inch trout.. Fly fished and only caught ladyfish - what a blast they can be. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
Fighting Beagle Guide Service Capt. Keith Pratt 941-812-2771Date December 6, 2005 Condition Sunny and clear, breezy Location Palma Sola Bay Tide Very low to incoming Style Flats (Fly Fishing and Spinning) Report Fishing the flats in about two to three feet hard bottom with patches of grass - Cotees (motor oil color) with a red head and Hammer Heads with DOA tails (black and silver) caught 11 Pompanos, 3 redfish, and a 24 inch trout.. Pompanos range in size from 15 to 19 inches and reds from 16 to 23. "Artificial and Fly
Fishing Only - I like to fool the fish not feed the fish"
11-2-05
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