Fishing conditions improve after hurricanes

Fishing conditions improve after hurricanes

By Jon Chapman

Source: bradenton

10/27/2024

Credit: Tiffany Tompkins

Over the past week, Captain Todd Romine said the fishing has felt like it did 30 years ago. “The bay has been empty of boats,” said Bradenton native Romine, who has been guiding since the 1980s. “It’s been a bit eerie coming down Cortez. There are no sailboats, shorelines are chewed up, mangroves are peeled back and brown. I only saw a few other guide boats and maybe one or two recreational anglers each day, it felt like the early days of guiding for me.”

With the lack of boat pressure, something many anglers have been vocal about in recent years, Romine has been able to fish how he used to, moving freely about without any outside interference around the bays and flats. This has led to phenomenal fishing over the past week and a half.

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