Apalachee Bay Fishing Reports (May 2026)

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Bruce Williams
Apalachicola, Florida
Reported: 2 months ago

Bull reds and beach whiting are starting to show up in good numbers as water temps slowly rise.

Bruce Williams Apalachicola, Florida Reported: 2 months ago

Bull reds and beach whiting are starting to show up in good numbers as water temps slowly rise.

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Brock Shiver
Apalachicola, Florida
Reported: 2 months ago

Waters warming up pretty quick redfish is consistent as of now. Trout bite has been great the past few weeks. And we should start to expect some pompano soon.

Brock Shiver Apalachicola, Florida Reported: 2 months ago

Waters warming up pretty quick redfish is consistent as of now. Trout bite has been great the past few weeks. And we should start to expect some pompano soon.

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Rudy Gay
Apalachicola, Florida
Reported: 2 months ago

It's been good the last couple weeks after the water temperature dropped to 59 degrees after the ice storm we had up north.

Rudy Gay Apalachicola, Florida Reported: 2 months ago

It's been good the last couple weeks after the water temperature dropped to 59 degrees after the ice storm we had up north.

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Brock Shiver
Apalachicola, Florida
Reported: 2 months ago

Sheep's head bite is still good and the redfishing has been hot this past week

Brock Shiver Apalachicola, Florida Reported: 2 months ago

Sheep's head bite is still good and the redfishing has been hot this past week

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 2 months ago

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 2 months ago

Spring is coming soon, and love is in the air. Or the water. These sheep's heads are moving out to the oyster bars. And then to fifteen to thirty feet of water.
Best beats are fiddler, crabs, small shrimp sand flees and brined claws.
I prefer to use a fish finder rig with number 1 or 1/0 hooks and the bare minimum wait to hold it down.
If you see a bunch of fish come to the surface, the bite should be shortly after.
Also our shrouders are starting to move out to the mouths of the creeks and on to the shallow flats.
Soft plastics on appropriately weighted jig heads work. The best, but a shrimp-tipped jig head will catch them, and you'll also get flounder and black drum...
If you'd like to see this firsthand book a trip.

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Robert Mcclinnis
Crawfordville, Florida
Reported: 3 months ago

With the cold cold temps. We're using live shrimp on on a jig head or a carolina rigg crawling them across the bottom, painfully slow. Also, soft plastics on jigheads are catching large over slot trout and the occasional red fish

Robert Mcclinnis Crawfordville, Florida Reported: 3 months ago

With the cold cold temps. We're using live shrimp on on a jig head or a carolina rigg crawling them across the bottom, painfully slow.
Also, soft plastics on jigheads are catching large over slot trout and the occasional red fish

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Brock Shiver
Apalachicola, Florida
Reported: 3 months ago

Been great the past week!

Brock Shiver Apalachicola, Florida Reported: 3 months ago

Been great the past week!

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Brock Shiver
Apalachicola, Florida
Reported: 3 months ago

It's been pretty cold down here recently... but the sheep's head bite has still be consistent and the redfishing has been great post front when it warms up a little.

Brock Shiver Apalachicola, Florida Reported: 3 months ago

It's been pretty cold down here recently... but the sheep's head bite has still be consistent and the redfishing has been great post front when it warms up a little.

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