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Post by inoeatfish on Feb 7, 2024 16:51:48 GMT -5
The water temp is slowly starting to warm up. Are the King guys out there on the NSP doing their thing?
As soon as they start catching their kings, I’ll start fishing for my macs. Hopefully this year, the red tide won’t be so bad like last spring.
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Post by fishfinderbill on Feb 7, 2024 21:24:48 GMT -5
Be sure to let us know when they show up.
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Post by silverspoon on Feb 8, 2024 10:02:44 GMT -5
Not to rain on anyone's parade but there is significant wait until the kings show up, they are likely down by the Keys and little north of there right now. I understand they stay away from temperatures about 68 F and below, we currently have like 62 F and many cold nights still in the near term forecast. I'm jonesing for some mackerel action too and look forward to things warming up but don't expect them for a while.
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Post by inoeatfish on Feb 8, 2024 10:33:10 GMT -5
My friends were down in the keys this weekend lobstering and they said it was so cold. They had to wear wet suits. Only got 4 keepers and toss back a lot of 3”.
You’re absolutely right, unless we get some really warm weather consistently these next few weeks, we won’t see the Mac’s till late feb, early March.
I remember 2018ish, I caught the Mac’s as early as mid feb due to warmer weather.
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Post by fishsci on Feb 8, 2024 22:46:12 GMT -5
Not to rain on anyone's parade but there is significant wait until the kings show up, they are likely down by the Keys and little north of there right now. I understand they stay away from temperatures about 68 F and below, we currently have like 62 F and many cold nights still in the near term forecast. I'm jonesing for some mackerel action too and look forward to things warming up but don't expect them for a while. |
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Post by fishsci on Feb 8, 2024 23:06:09 GMT -5
Very right ... around 68F is the scientifically understood critical temperature for king and Spanish mackerel. It is a little more complex than that, but a good way to roughly predict their possible arrival to our area is to look at the sea surface temperature (SST images on the Internet. When you see the 67-68 color reach here to the bay, but not just out in the offshore Gulf, there's a reasonable chance that both king and Spanish might be available in numbers. Some years, the warmer water is offshore before coastal and bay waters warm up, and the bulk of the kings and maybe many of the Spanish bypass our area on the their annual migratiom to their summerfeeding grounds in the northern Gulf.
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Post by shot33gun9 on Feb 10, 2024 13:33:51 GMT -5
I believe you boys are out of line, please get back behind your fishing prophet the lengendary mackerel expert mackerelman. Mackman knows everything.....carry on
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Post by Captain John on Feb 11, 2024 12:02:32 GMT -5
Lmao 🤣
But they are not wrong.....
Just saying 🫡
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Post by conureman on Feb 11, 2024 14:14:45 GMT -5
May start heading back out there in a week or 2 hopefully. If water temps keep rising.
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Post by shot33gun9 on Feb 11, 2024 15:22:34 GMT -5
I suspect macks will be caught at the piers today, warm weather and an approaching front makes me suspicious
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Post by Captain John on Feb 12, 2024 12:31:06 GMT -5
My Mackerel sense was tingling yesterday.
I think pretty soon.
Going out Thursday morning I believe 🤔
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Post by shot33gun9 on Feb 12, 2024 16:23:44 GMT -5
Yeah captain, it's time to slide on out there and do some damage. If you get on some macks and post it on this forum there will be 500 spoon slinging maniacs out there the following day....lol
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Post by Captain John on Feb 12, 2024 20:23:59 GMT -5
Yeah...10-4
I've been fishing on it since 1999.
And seen pretty much all you could see.
The last 5 years have been very disappointing. Between the bird people and the absolute rudest MF'ers in the world out there. Blast music, drinking beers, smoking weed, and not following the rules and laws.
I have pretty much moved on from all the idiots out there. Over 30 years fishing Florida waters from the Keys to Apalachicola.
I can only tolerate so much stupidity, so I can fish the piers only so often.
My heart is sad 😔 but I'm told it is called progress. I miss the 80's and 90's fishing. It was almost always fantastic fishing. Today's fishing is a different beast. I could go to the pier in 2003 and in 2 hours catch 50 plus Mack's and a few Kings fish 🐟. I miss those days.
Good luck to everyone... Tight lines
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Post by conureman on Feb 13, 2024 12:19:28 GMT -5
Been hearing macks were at the pier today but wandering if anybody went out their today? Or can confirm thoe rumors.
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Post by seabird on Feb 13, 2024 16:24:34 GMT -5
Been hearing macks were at the pier today but wandering if anybody went out their today? Or can confirm thoe rumors. Water temps only 60F today. There are some resident macks in the Bay but I think the main migration not here yet. |
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Post by inoeatfish on Feb 13, 2024 17:26:34 GMT -5
It’s still to cold for me. I don’t have to many days off so I’m going to wait till the end of this month. I see some tides I like on the 28-29.
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Post by seabird on Feb 14, 2024 17:12:44 GMT -5
Per Tides 4 fishing, the current skyway water temperature is 64F.
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Post by Captain John on Feb 14, 2024 17:26:57 GMT -5
It could be 1st week in March before we get enough heat to warm the water to high 60's...
Kind of day by day right now.
I will hold off for a bit.
But I'm getting ready 😉😇🤓
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Post by conureman on Feb 14, 2024 19:12:15 GMT -5
It could be 1st week in March before we get enough heat to warm the water to high 60's... Kind of day by day right now. I will hold off for a bit. But I'm getting ready 😉😇🤓 Guess I have more time to upgrade my gear before the fun begins. And hopefully I don't get a spoon in my thumb again. |
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Post by stuckintherocks on Feb 15, 2024 11:32:19 GMT -5
Man I’m just gonna wait til the sabiki ban is over so I can fish in peace hahaha
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Post by fishfinderbill on Feb 15, 2024 20:59:40 GMT -5
I'm with you SITRs Unless a Big migration hits, we won't be there until March
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Post by cabowabo on Feb 18, 2024 11:41:59 GMT -5
Saw atleast 3 different pictures of people catching small macks in SRQ bay this past week before today rain/cold front hit.... makes me think that on the next extended warmup. They will be slightly more thick
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