Please dowload enable javascript or download the latest flash player.

Weather Search: Type zip or city

Outdoors Forum:

• Talk Outdoors

Weather Links:

---

• Live Video Weather
• Solunar Tables
• WFLA Doppler Radar
• Marine Forecast
• Personal Forecast
• Watches/Warnings

Tide Charts:

---

• Daily
• Hillsborough
• Clearwater
• St. Petersburg
• Point Pinellas
• Conversion chart
• Tide predictions

Most Recent Entries

• Robinson product Gibson advances to NCAA track finals
• Panini previews Gold Standard autographs
• UD unveils Military Machines inserts for 2012 Goodwin Champions set
• Rays @ BoSox: Guyer out for the season, Jennings close to returning and lineups
• USF softball: It’s game day
• Weekly Tampa Bay fishing report
• Rays at BoSox: Rivalry renewed
• Karen Cooley returns as Zephyrhills girls swimming coach
• USF beats Pitt, stays alive
• The Nerds head north
• Jeffrey Shank out as Gulf boys basketball coach
• Berkeley Prep captures Academic Team Champion Award - again
• This week’s signings and offers
• Berkeley Prep wins FHSAA Academic Award standings
• Shank out as Gulf boys hoops coach

More

• Bucs Report -Tribune staff
• Rays Report - Roger Mooney
• Bolts Report - Erik Erlendsson
• Bulls Report
• Prep Report - Hillsborough
• Prep Report - Pasco
• Prep Report - Region
• Prep Report - Recruiting Updates
• Prep Report - Football
• Go Fishing: On The Waterfront
• The Sports Bookie - Bob D'Angelo
• Gators Report - Tribune staff
• Youth Sports Report
• NFL Draft Report
• Go Ask: Frank's Tacklebox
• Bucified Bert Blog
• BUK Power - Bucs Fan Blog
• Pigskin Preacher - NFL Fan Blog
• Breakfast Bonus - Tom McEwen
• Highlands Sports

Monthly Archives

• May 2012
• April 2012
• March 2012
• February 2012
• January 2012
• December 2011

Nautical event offers new, used products

Posted Jan 13, 2012 by Tribune Sports

Updated Jan 13, 2012 at 02:23 PM

BY FRANK SARGEANT

The Nautical Flea Market and Seafood Fest begins Friday at East Bay Raceway — south of Tampa off U.S. 41 — and continues through Sunday, according to organizer Mike Scanio.

The market includes used tackle and boating gear, as well as new and used boats, electronics, nautical art, teak furniture and more. There will be live music and lots of fresh seafood from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, Scanio said. Admission is $7. For more details, visit http://www.FLNauticalFleaMarket.com.

With lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s this weekend, flats fishing will revert back to the winter pattern. Residential canals, deep bends in coastal rivers and pot holes in the flats will be the places to look for redfish, trout and sheepshead.

Live shrimp is the can’t-miss bait. A DOA shrimp or a jig worked slowly will work for trout and reds.

Don’t overlook the power-plant outflows, including the one at TECO north of Apollo Beach, for cold-front fishing. Trout, mackerel, pompano, cobia and even a few young tarpon will be swirling around the basin, along with the thousands of cownose rays and hundreds of manatees enjoying the warm water.

This whole area is a slow-speed zone, heavily patrolled, so obey all the caution signs.

Jigs are the best all-around offering in the warm water coming out of the plants, but a 52-M MirrOlure can be effective if worked slow and deep. For cobia, a large plastic eel or a DOA Baitbuster mullet will do the job.