Richard Splawn with a nice snook he caught in Sarasota Bay.
This week, fishing aboard the “Gone Coastal” with Captain Terry Simmons, out of CB’s Saltwater Outfitters on Siesta Key. I took Richard Splawn on a Sarasota Bay trip although we had to work to find clean water.
We saw small bait schools all over the bay with birds diving on it. Since we already had our bait we started working the flats picking up several speckled trout.
From there we started working on redfish and snook. We had one redfish take a gold spoon and we picked up three snook on shrimp and DOA shad tail artificial baits with mission fishing 1/4 oz jig head.
After that, we worked another flat with the good tide and picked up several gag groupers, mangrove snapper, trout and a three-foot bonnethead shark.
Terry was born and raised in Bradenton, FL and has been guiding clients since 2000, fishing on Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico with live bait, artificial lures and fly fishing aboard his 22’ Bay Ranger which accommodates up to 4 anglers.
