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Santa Rosa, Fl / Hogtown Bayou fishing tips?
Posted on 4/3/17 at 8:30 am
Posted on 4/3/17 at 8:30 am
My brother is going to Santa Rosa, FL in June. He is bringing his kayak and wanting to fish.
It looks like there is a nice launch at the bridge on 393 into the far east side of Hogtown Bayou.
Just seeing if anyone has any experience and/or tips for this area. I figure that bay side will be the usual shrimp under a cork, gold spoon, etc....
It looks like there is a nice launch at the bridge on 393 into the far east side of Hogtown Bayou.
Just seeing if anyone has any experience and/or tips for this area. I figure that bay side will be the usual shrimp under a cork, gold spoon, etc....
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Posted on 4/3/17 at 8:48 am to Polar Pop
Hogtown has a lot of freshwater so grass doesn't grow there well at al, it's mostly sandy bottom. I would fish the flats on the west side of 4 mile point which is the peninsula on the west side of 4 hogtown bayou. So not in hogtown. I haven't fished out there much though. You can launch a kayak from the Sandestin Marina, and fish there.
I don't have much luck with a popping cork around here outside of 13-14 inch trout and the min size to keep is 15. I'd throw a fluke or use live bait if he can throw a cast net. Shrimp is good now, but once the water warms up the pinfish are hell.
I would also try and fish the dune lakes out on 30a. Some good fishing there, shrimp can be used. They are brackish, There's large mouth, bream, and redfish in them. Black drum also.
I don't have much luck with a popping cork around here outside of 13-14 inch trout and the min size to keep is 15. I'd throw a fluke or use live bait if he can throw a cast net. Shrimp is good now, but once the water warms up the pinfish are hell.
I would also try and fish the dune lakes out on 30a. Some good fishing there, shrimp can be used. They are brackish, There's large mouth, bream, and redfish in them. Black drum also.
This post was edited on 4/3/17 at 8:51 am
Posted on 4/3/17 at 8:48 am to Polar Pop
I've put in at that ramp many times but never fished back there and haven't seen many people fishing back there. That's going to be some fairly fresh and fairly stagnant/slow moving water. My advice would be to fish the mid bay bridge in destin. Shrimp or finger mullet along the bottom should yield some anything from reds, flounder, sheepshead, black drum. Choctawhatchee bay isn't the easiest bay to fish, knowing that I would go to one of the "hotspots" if I only had a few days to fish and wasn't trying to learn the area. There's some YouTube vids of guys kayaking and catching piles of fish from mid bay bridge.
Posted on 4/3/17 at 9:56 am to Riseupfromtherubble
Thank you both, great information. Those dune lakes are badass. You could spend a whole day just hopping them down the highway. Just watched a video on them, apparently that style is very rare around the world.
Posted on 4/3/17 at 11:30 am to Polar Pop
The dune lakes are fun to explore from kayak too. Supposedly the big one by Watercolor had a 10 ft gator, I always called BS because those watercolor people would be pansies about it and call to have it removed but I heard it from multiple sources.
If you go to the ones on the western side of 30a no one hardly uses them.
If you go to the ones on the western side of 30a no one hardly uses them.
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