Kings Bay February Report

I talked to 2 fishermen at the boat launch next Charlies Restaurant yesterday around noon and they both reported some luck fishing the warmer waters of Kings Bay. One was flipping around the seawalls and and boat docks picking up some action with Large mouth bass. He said they were not hitting hard and it was difficult to get a good hook set. He said he had also seen a large Snook lurking about.

The other was fishing more open areas of Kings bay and had landed and released several good sized Sea trout.

It seems that it only takes a little sunshine and warmer day time temps to bring the fish out of deep holes where they have been holding just to stay warm and start to feed.

I was reminded the other day that the Progress Energy plants warm water discharge isn't very warm these days since the reactor has been shut down for around a year. I believe they are making power with  natural gas or coal until the reactor repairs completed and it's brought back on line. So for now the winter spots are the springs at Kings Bay, The Withlachoochee river, or parts of the Barge canal near the old river channel.

Don't forget that Sea Trout season is closed all of the month of February.