http://shareddelusion.com/reports Tampa Bay Fishing Reports Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:39:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy fishing,  Eric http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2007/09/sept-2nd-deep-run-to-some-ledges/ Happy fishing,  Eric http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2007/09/august-25th-old-school-grouper-run/ After the past few deep runs we decided to try inshore. The 120-140 feet depths seem cleaned of life, we cannot figure out whats up. So we decided to go to what we call Cobia Country, or the Betty Rose / tug boat area. Its about 40 feet deep. We had ... http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2007/07/near-shore-day-july-14/ We got many threadfins atthe skyway with our new open net - it was sooo much easier than the small holed net. We headed to the pride area, kind of wavy out so we had to go SW for a while. some flying fish but no sargasum at all. stopped in ... http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2007/07/july-pride-run/ We decided to start real early - maybe too early. We could not find any baits on the flats or by the skyway. Other reports of bait we good - so we must have just left early. So we trecked on with shrimp and sardines. The sardine problem appears solved, ... http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2007/05/cinco-de-mayo-grouper/ Robert and Terry's report. Water was flat. They tried for bait on the flats by the skyway but it was all small, just some pinfish caught. They stopped by the reef off bunces pass and there were many schools of blue runners and skip jacks - no action. Cobia country ... http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2006/10/october-21/ RJH and TLH had taken the boat to Boca Grande and Sanibel for the weekend. On Monday May 29th, they stopped by a artifical reef and with silver spoons, it was non-stop fishing action on Spanish Mackeral - from morning thru 1:00. The reef was in 20 feet off the beach ... http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2006/05/memorial-day/ We had bought some weird spotted sardines from SE Liquidators. We also stocked up on shrimp at O'Neils. Today was a pure surface action day. We wstopped at the Betty Rose and it was covered in schools of barracuda - very odd behavior - I've not seen them school up before. ... http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2006/05/may-28th-offshore/ The weatehr looked good, but as soon as we turned out of Egmont channel it was brutal waves. We tried the skyway for some mackeral - tons of bait! Schools were so dense the dark spots were visable from far away. We say one rolling tarpon but no fish activity ... http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2006/05/may-13th-failed-attempt/   I had a plan... It failed horribly. We were going to go out further than ever before and try to catch some Red Snapper. I was so confident, i dragged Gregg out to partake in the cooler filling action. Right off the bat, the marina was out of sardines (kind of expected) ... http://shareddelusion.com/reports/2006/05/may-run-to-the-deep/