With a stretch of some of the most beautiful weather, visiting and local fishers are eager to get out on the water. Fishing inshore around Anna Maria Island is producing decent numbers of sheepshead. Whether fishing around docks, piers, bridges or reefs and wrecks, sheepshead are the most abundant species. Using live shrimp as bait […]
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Just Reel Fishing Charters of Anna Maria Island offers premier inshore and nearshore live bait charters expertly guided by Capt. Danny Stasny.
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Dec
Dec
The gift of fishing — the perfect present I think Santa Claus gave us an early Christmas Present this year. In my Just Reel Fishing charters throughout the waters of Palma Sola Bay, north to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and out to Egmont Key, I am not noticing any red tide. In fact, the waters […]
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Dec
Dec
Transitional weather results in different species to target With the cold from the north becoming more frequent, fishing around Anna Maria Island is still good, although you might say it’s going through a transitional phase. You see, as water temperatures drop, some fish change their habits. This can include where they are, when they feed […]
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Dec
Dec
Fish catches as varied as recent weather Fishing around Anna Maria Island remains good as long as you’re fishing east toward the Manatee River and the oyster shorelines of southern Tampa Bay. Catch-and-release snook fishing is trending to be the best bite, although with the recent cold fronts, I imagine that the bite will be […]
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Dec
Dec
Fish catches as varied as recent weather
Fishing around Anna Maria Island remains good as long as you’re fishing east toward the Manatee River and the oyster shorelines of southern Tampa Bay.
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Nov
Nov
Fishing north of Anna Maria Island proves to be excellent despite red tide slowly creeping up on us from the south.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that it doesn’t come into Tampa Bay — invading the last sanctuary for our inshore fish such as snook, redfish and trout.
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Nov
Nov
Be thankful for excellent fishing east of Anna Maria Island Although red tide remains lingering around the shores of Anna Maria Island for another week, fishing to the east remains quite good — in fact, in some places, it’s excellent. Fishing the eastern shorelines of Tampa Bay and its connecting waters is proving to provide […]
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Nov
Nov
Head north for consistent fishing action
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Aug
Aug
Fishing around Anna Maria Island remains consistent — at least for now. With red tide devastating the waters south of Sarasota down to Charlotte Harbor it’s as if a grey cloud looms over us. Every day I wonder if it’s going to find its way up here. But, as for now, it hasn’t, and the […]
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Aug
Aug
Anna Maria Island Fishing Report Fishing around Anna Maria Island not only offers a wide a variety of species to catch but also a wide variety of weather. If you’ve been out in the boat or fished from the shores of Anna Maria Island this past week, you know what I’m talking about. I’ve seen […]