The cold fronts of fall will be working their way south to the West Central region, cooling area waters as hurricane season ends. Moderate water temperatures now will be in the comfort zones for a wide variety of fish. Offshore anglers can expect to catch red snapper, mangrove, yellowtail, vermilion, and lane snappers. An assortment of others like scamp, red grouper, porgies, almaco jacks, triggerfish, African pompano, blackfin tuna, and in both nearshore and offshore depths, hogfish, and migrating kingfish, and Spanish mackerel.
Inshore anglers will have a field day with numerous species. Bait schools may be preparing to head into the Gulf if water temperatures take an extreme dip but more likely, the temperature will hit and stay around 70 degrees until about Thanksgiving when the bulk of the…
