Fishing in Santa Rosa Be. Fla.

Yes. Fishing can be good, but it is so hot, you need to get out early. Water temps will keep fishing down.

Go to Yellowfin Ocean Sports just down the road at Watercolor, or the Grayton Location on 30A. They should be able to tell you what is biting and on what in the lakes.

Don't be afraid to get up early and simply water the beach looking for "nervous water"...or schools of fish. Big schools of reds, jacks, bluefish and even bonita will congregate right at shore. You basically sight cast into the school with a DOA shrimp or a gold spoon.

Plus, you get some exercise in walking as well.

Early morning was lady fish and hard tail city on spoon off the sandbar last week


Zero pompano action in the surf

About twenty feet past the sand bar, people had waded out over the sand bar to about waist deep

You could see em. I didn't mess w em, I ran the pompano sand flea in the first trough pattern that yielded nothing. I did hang one big arse pompano tgst got off. It ruined me.

I can catch sand fleas by the hundreds

I was a spectator to the lady fish slaying

I caught the hell out of em last July 9-13.

But yeah they were gone, even the little ones were gone