Hubbard’s Marina Fishing Reports

Kingfish and Mackerel are here in huge numbers lately.

Black drum have been super thick in the area with some big schools moving around the seawalls, grass flats, shorelines, and into the passes too.

 Fishing report Inshore- Warming waters have brought the return of the mackerel! Plus, we have this full moon moving lots of water and helping to get those mackerel excited even more with bait concentrating around local fishing piers. This is early for those mackerel to show up in such good numbers but were seeing plenty [...]

Hogfish action continues to impress near shore right now. This past week the bite was good but a little softer than it has been overall but that has a lot to do with the turbulent weather. These guys are still biting best around 40-60ft of water, but you can find them as shallow as 30ft up to around 90ft fairly frequently. We catch them deeper, but they are most commonly targeted in shallower because it’s easier to get them to chew near shore in that 40-60ft range. Once you go deeper, there is so many more other aggressive fish around to get your bait to those leader shy and unaggressive hogfish. They are one of the last fish to eat on a spot, so it takes some patience to really dial in on these guys using hook and line. However, using lighter tackle around 30lb floro 3-4ot hook and minimal weight really helps you get a great chance at getting them to eat. Live shrimp continues to be the favorite bait for targeting hogfish but fiddler crabs, sandfleas, and rock shrimp work well too and help cut down on the bycatch.

Red grouper, Scamp grouper, and all other shallow water groupers are now protected in the ‘deep water closure’ or ’20 fathom closure’ for the months of February and March.

Trout action remains steady through the area despite the weather and murky conditions. We are saw some great action around the local flats, docks, jetties, mangrove islands and virtually anywhere these trout could set up and ambush the passing bait being swept by the tides.

 Fishing report Inshore- Sheepshead continue to impress around the area right now. This coming week we have a couple weather events that should only continue to cool the area while heating up the sheepshead action. These guys don’t mind the bad weather and when the water gets murky, they seem to get more active while [...]

Hogfish action is insane right now around the area near shore waters from around 30ft of water up to around 70ft of water seems to be the hot zone. We are averaging around 15-25 keeper Hogfish on our ten hour all days and sometimes more! Our 5-hour half

The hogfish bite right now is super hot! We are seeing these guys from around 30ft up to around 80ft of water. Mostly on live shrimp and lighter tackle

Hogfish bite is continuing to impress for sure. We are seeing lots of these fish from around 30-70ft of water but sometimes even deeper we catch them too.