Apalachicola in first week in March

mbaker8686 · Feb 22, 2017

I am heading to Apalachicola for the first week in March. I have read that the whiting bite n ever really turns off, I was just wondering if anyone else had any other advice for this time of year. I have fished the gulf from piers and the beach from Pensacola to Panama City, just never in the Apalachicola area.

Thanks in advance.

MudDucker · Feb 22, 2017

Ask this same question on bigbendfishing.net. It is a forum especially for that area.

QuackAddict · Feb 23, 2017

Say a prayer that the wind does not blow the whole time you are there.

mlbowfin · Feb 28, 2017

if you have a boat and some fiddlers, you can catch sheepheads down in the cut. I went last year for the chili cookoff and caught a couple of sheeps on live shrimp, a few small black drum and a ton of little baby spots. the boat fishing the opposite side of the cut had a cricket tube full of fiddlers filled a cooler with sheeps(fishing slack tide)

Rabun · Mar 1, 2017

mbaker8686 said:
I am heading to Apalachicola for the first week in March. I have read that the whiting bite n ever really turns off, I was just wondering if anyone else had any other advice for this time of year. I have fished the gulf from piers and the beach from Pensacola to Panama City, just never in the Apalachicola area.

Thanks in advance.

Here's a report from the PCB area for last weekend. Aplach area may be a little behind PCB but with the mild temps I would expect the surf fishing to turn on early. Let us know how you make out.

http://www.floridasportsman.com/2017/02/22/panhandle-weekend-fishing-4cast/

mlbowfin · Mar 6, 2017

post a follow up report and let us know how it went!

jaymax00 · Mar 6, 2017

I have caught the biggest whiting I have ever seen at Cape San Blas. Normally first of march is when we ride over there, only about a 30 minute ride. Also catch pompano, red and black drum, sheephead and trout there.

mbaker8686 · Mar 13, 2017

Fishing was a little slow. The wind blew really hard the first half of the week, but I had some luck on 1-2 lb whiting on the old bridge that is now a pier on the st. george side. Towards the end of the week, we started catching more whiting in the surf. I was spooled once, never saw it. We caught some small sharks and hooked a big shark on slack tide in the surf. He turned back quick and clipped the line past the leader.

Not a bad trip for early march. I think we would have done well if we were not landlocked

Rabun · Mar 14, 2017

mbaker8686 said:
Fishing was a little slow. The wind blew really hard the first half of the week, but I had some luck on 1-2 lb whiting on the old bridge that is now a pier on the st. george side. Towards the end of the week, we started catching more whiting in the surf. I was spooled once, never saw it. We caught some small sharks and hooked a big shark on slack tide in the surf. He turned back quick and clipped the line past the leader.

Not a bad trip for early march. I think we would have done well if we were not landlocked

You got a few tugs and some meat to eat...way to go! There are some decent size creatures cruising the beach...I caught what must have been a 40lb black drum on a little piece of shrimp in the trough on the beach. It's like a box of chocolates....

mlbowfin · Mar 16, 2017

thanks for the report mbaker, it wont be long before things get fired up down there..

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