fishtailz
Rod Polisher
Hour and a half drive to get there but love the skyway piers. Big fish available.
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Post by fishtailz on Jun 16, 2023 9:14:50 GMT -5
Have fished the NSP three times now. When the tide turns and starts out so do the weeds. Makes it almost unfishable. Wondering if it's the same at the SSP?
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weeds
Jun 16, 2023 9:42:05 GMT -5
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Post by calcolater on Jun 16, 2023 9:42:05 GMT -5
Have fished the NSP three times now. When the tide turns and starts out so do the weeds. Makes it almost unfishable. Wondering if it's the same at the SSP? Yup. Pretty sure it’s common as we approach summer. Grass on the flats naturally recycles the vegetation. Storms also have a role in that.
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weeds
Jun 17, 2023 11:31:30 GMT -5
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Post by stuckintherocks on Jun 17, 2023 11:31:30 GMT -5
The weeds on ssp can definitely be a problem on either tide if you’re soaking baits for long periods, but I wouldn’t consider it unfishable by any means, different spots have different eddys and currents that cause some areas to have way more weeds coming through than others, typically if the weeds are becoming an issue I fish outwards of infront of a piling and don’t have many problems, now if you’re fishing artificial that’s a different story
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weeds
Jun 17, 2023 16:48:58 GMT -5
Post by fishsci on Jun 17, 2023 16:48:58 GMT -5
There are two basic kinds of so-called weeds that affect fishing in Tampa Bay and along the coast. The first kind is seagrasses (mainly three species). Seagrasses often become very much a problem after typical summer afternoon thunder storms that break off grass blades due to wave action, and those blades then float on the surface.
The second kind is what most call seaweeds that techically are macroalgae. They too can be loosened from their normal position on the bottom and within seagrass beds by turbulence and wave action. Seaweeds are mostly a problem in the summer when they grow so fast and sometimes partially smother the seagrass beds. During sunny summer days, seaweeds produce so much oxygen that the oxygen gas in them and bubbles adhering to them cause them to become buoyant and they float to the surface. Increased abundance of seaweeds is considered to be caused by nitrogen pollution that causes them to grow and increase their biomass because of the nitrogen fertization.
I do not know, and I doubt that they are known (probably extremely variable due to wind and tidal range) the current patterns around the Skyway, but I too have noticed more weeds at the N pier when the tide starts out, compared to the S pier. It is likely that it is because the water coming out on the N side is sweeping out from along the Pinellas peninsula that is shallower, and has more nitrogen pollution and resultant levels of both kinds of weeds. The much longer S pier has water moving out from the deeper mid bay areas. At times the first approach area (near the toll booth) has a lot of weeds also, when the tide first starts out.
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Post by shot33gun9 on Jun 17, 2023 17:57:58 GMT -5
When that junk is thick I pack up and leave, and not once in my years of fishing have I ever wondered what it is or what causes it
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Post by stuckintherocks on Jun 17, 2023 18:14:23 GMT -5
When that junk is thick I pack up and leave, and not once in my years of fishing have I ever wondered what it is or what causes it Hahahahaha that’s some funny chit
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Post by shot33gun9 on Jun 17, 2023 18:36:08 GMT -5
There is one good thing about all that grass: pass crabs, possibly the best bait out there, everything eats them. From now on thru the summer they will be flooding out of the bay, best time to get them is on ripping afternoon falling tide. Crab net attached to a telescoping pole is all it takes, or a 4ft castnet, just drop it on a big cluster of grass and pull up a dozen or so. Then when the tide slows down pitch them freeline out over the rockpiles
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Jun 17, 2023 19:38:41 GMT -5
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Post by carlf on Jun 17, 2023 19:38:41 GMT -5
Seagrass constantly replace blade during the summer, sloughing off old ones so news can come up. The really long blades are most likely manatee grass. Shoal grass is the really thin blades.
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Jun 19, 2023 1:24:23 GMT -5
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Post by SkyJay on Jun 19, 2023 1:24:23 GMT -5
There is one good thing about all that grass: pass crabs, possibly the best bait out there, everything eats them. From now on thru the summer they will be flooding out of the bay, best time to get them is on ripping afternoon falling tide. Crab net attached to a telescoping pole is all it takes, or a 4ft castnet, just drop it on a big cluster of grass and pull up a dozen or so. Then when the tide slows down pitch them freeline out over the rockpiles second the motion.
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