March Clean-Up + mini Mackeral Fun 3/18
I spent the morning participating in the Coastal Cleanup at Fort Desoto. I found many diapers, plastic bags, granola bar wrappers and beer bottles, but the most disappointing part was that I found only one Corona Bottle, it had 2 oz of beer left with no lime!! Ahh people today are so disappointing, society is clearly collapsing 
After I finished the cleanup and got my shirt, I called Robert and Terry to have them pick me up. If you were at DeSoto that day, I was the idiot waving to a boat in water up to his chest. The water temp was 68-71. We went to the pinallas reef 4 miles or so off of Bunces pass and found schools of small 15″ Mackeral in 30 ft of water. We caught a few but the action died quick.
Earlier in the day Robert had caught a 18″ Gag Grouper at the reef behind Egmont.
During the morning, while waiting for the Cleanup to begin, I saw many mackeral hitting bait schools by the bay pier.
Happy fishing,Â
Eric