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2025, Homosassa Florida Fishing: The Gulf Coast's Premier Inshore Waters
Homosassa's spring-fed ecosystem supports exceptional inshore fishing from trophy bull redfish to 200-pound tarpon. Learn seasonal patterns, proven sight fishing and live bait techniques, plus the unique shallow-water grouper fishery that exists nowhere else on Florida's Gulf Coast. Includes insights into the legendary tarpon fishery's decline and conservation efforts.
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2025, Catching Summer Redfish on Florida's Gulf Coast
Heat does not push redfish off the flats the way it does everything else. Through the hottest stretch of the year I work the Homosassa backcountry and the outside keys, reading shade, current, and mullet schools to find fish that have gotten a lot more specific about where they sit.
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2023, Winter Fishing Florida's Gulf Coast: Cold Front Tactics
Cold fronts push Gulf Coast gamefish into predictable deep-water refuges where they wait out temperature drops. Understanding these thermal patterns and fishing protected coves with live shrimp during post-front warming trends turns tough winter conditions into productive fishing opportunities for redfish, seatrout, and sheepshead.
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