Home Tournaments Calendar Weather Merchandise Sponsors

Go Back   Spearboard.com - The World's Largest Spearfishing Diving Boating Social Media Forum > United States Geographical Locations > Florida Gulfcoast Spearfishing

Florida Gulfcoast Spearfishing Post here to discuss regional action or issues about spearing on Florida's Gulfcoast.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Rating: Thread Rating: 127 votes, 4.97 average. Display Modes
Old 05-19-2015, 06:22 PM   #1501
Knot-A-Fear
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Clearwater fl
Posts: 7
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

From my experience , I see some of it every year but can always move north/south or east/west and get out of it. From what we seen last Saturday is pretty scary 90' real cloudy 5' viz, 60' SE was snotty and 35' farther south was real snotty also. Top to bottom the Sunday before to the worst viz I've seen out 35 miles EVER. Hope this isn't going to be a bad red tide season!
Knot-A-Fear is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2015, 07:10 PM   #1502
Jonboy
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Lakeland, FL
Posts: 121
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

5/9 20 miles SW of Bayport in 35ft. New spot for me. TTB vis. Horizontal just as good. No brown hair algae or whatever you call that stuff everyone is seeing. Mostly juvenile fish. Managed 2 good hogs. Ran 20 back north so almost due west out of Bayport to a reliable spot in 45ft. Algae everywhere, no fish, no bait! Arrrr. Came in to 35ft and found a new spot on the Garmin. Went down and managed 2 reds, few more hogs and couple mangs. Mom got her fish fry! Still had quite a bit of algae. Tried to go out of Homosassa 5/16 at 9:30 the wind was howling from the east. Had to turn around and basically idle back it was so rough. Didn't get down. How do weathermen keep their jobs!!
Jonboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-19-2015, 09:10 PM   #1503
Seal Rock
Registered User
 
Seal Rock's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ozona, FL
Posts: 312
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Monday 5-18:

One ledge 75-85' no moss and a school of 35-55" AJs. One locker filled. Third dive was 45' SW Veterans LOADED with snapper and sheepies. The Gags were off the chart big, read BIG.

We killed it. Looks like the algae bloom is dislodging from the bottom and vis is holding steady at 50' above the growth. Should be an epic July 1st.
Seal Rock is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-20-2015, 09:36 AM   #1504
Spearo|Joe
Registered User
 
Spearo|Joe's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 115
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Went out to 3 mile and 1 mile out of AMI yesterday. Got a decent 35" cobia on 3 mile and we both maxed on nice snapper and got a few hogs. Saw some big kings but couldn't get within range. visibility was about 20 to 25 feet in both spots. saw some real nice gags. Great day on the water.
Spearo|Joe is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-20-2015, 11:02 AM   #1505
fishkillapro
Registered User
 
fishkillapro's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: West Florida
Age: 35
Posts: 1,184
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Rich, let me know if you have room next time.
fishkillapro is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-20-2015, 12:45 PM   #1506
Jonboy
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Lakeland, FL
Posts: 121
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Will be headed out of Tampa this weekend to some new spots. Will post reports but wanted to ask what weather reports...apps...buoy info...ect folks in our region use before heading out? I got the crap kicked out of me the last 2 weekends in row, had to abort trip on 5/16 despite weather reports of wind 9mph or less and 2ft or less seas. Wrong!!! I could have kicked the weather mans a$$ after that. Thanks.
Jonboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-21-2015, 01:35 PM   #1507
fishkillapro
Registered User
 
fishkillapro's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: West Florida
Age: 35
Posts: 1,184
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

It looks rough out there this weekend.

http://forecast.weather.gov/shmrn.ph...873&syn=gmz800
fishkillapro is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-21-2015, 01:59 PM   #1508
fishkillapro
Registered User
 
fishkillapro's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: West Florida
Age: 35
Posts: 1,184
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Middle Grounds buoy

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42036
fishkillapro is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-21-2015, 03:08 PM   #1509
salty_dog_68
Registered User
 
salty_dog_68's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 24
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Dove some ledges around Veterans Reef in 55' on Tuesday(5/19). Dove south county last Friday. Viz is still top to bottom. The "gumbo"/algae/whatever that crap is was not as bad on the north county ledge but still present. Fish are thin this year but still able to limit on hogfish and found a keeper red grouper(22"). We also found a 35' Lewmar plow anchor with about 20' of chain .

http://www.spearboard.com/photos/dat.../IMG_00014.JPG
salty_dog_68 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-21-2015, 03:09 PM   #1510
salty_dog_68
Registered User
 
salty_dog_68's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 24
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

salty_dog_68 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-21-2015, 03:13 PM   #1511
salty_dog_68
Registered User
 
salty_dog_68's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 24
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonboy View Post
Will be headed out of Tampa this weekend to some new spots. Will post reports but wanted to ask what weather reports...apps...buoy info...ect folks in our region use before heading out? I got the crap kicked out of me the last 2 weekends in row, had to abort trip on 5/16 despite weather reports of wind 9mph or less and 2ft or less seas. Wrong!!! I could have kicked the weather mans a$$ after that. Thanks.
This is my go to resource. Usually accurate about 90%:

http://www.surfguru.com/florida-gulf...ast-wave-model
salty_dog_68 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-21-2015, 04:00 PM   #1512
Strat3582
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Tampa, Florida
Posts: 6
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Hey everyone I have a question!! We sent diving last weekend out of Clearwater Pass and the weekend prior out of Ft Desoto and noticed what looks like a whole bunch of thick tumble weed looking sludge on the bottom and all over the reefs, any idea what this is and will othe gone anytime soon?? It appears the larger fish seem to stay away from it as we didn't have any luck finding any keeper grouper or hogfish as we normally do?!? Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks in advance!!
Strat3582 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-21-2015, 04:06 PM   #1513
spearhunter11
Surgical Shooter!
 
spearhunter11's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: clearwater,fl
Age: 40
Posts: 758
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

It's algae, As water temps rise organisms grow! It's not big deal as long as the end result isn't red tide! Mainly happens inshore. At a spot two weeks ago in 120' on the pipeline, viz was clear and no algae!
spearhunter11 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-22-2015, 06:35 AM   #1514
Jonboy
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Lakeland, FL
Posts: 121
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

Thanks to all who replied about weather forecast Intel.
Jonboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-22-2015, 12:30 PM   #1515
sharpshooter
Registered User
 
sharpshooter's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: st. petersburg,fl.
Posts: 2,221
Re: Current Vis - Tampa Bay Region (Homosassa to Sarasota)

wind guru and intellicast are pretty good. Anything is better than NOAA.
sharpshooter is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:35 AM.


The World's Largest Spearfishing Diving Social Media Forum Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2002 - 2014 Spearboard.com