Where To Look For Fish On A Flat WITHOUT Seagrass
- By: Pat Ogletree
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Seagrass is one of the best structures to find snook, redfish, and trout around. But what if you’re fishing around flats with no grass?
Don’t assume it’s a desert. If there’s bait, you can be sure predators are around.
In this video, I’ll show you what to look for on these grassless flats and discover where fish are waiting to ambush their prey!
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Where To Look For Fish On A Flat WITHOUT Seagrass
Key Takeaways
- Start by looking for depth changes. Even though the water is shallower, inshore fish can use these ledges just like offshore fish to get a break from the current and ambush prey.
- Oyster bars are among the top structures to fish anytime and especially where there’s no seagrass in the area.
- Bottom composition transitions between hard, muddy, and rocky layers create natural hunting lanes during the spring and fall.
- Docks, seawalls, bridges, and other man-made structures hold fish year-round. Consider night fishing in the summertime and targeting these structures that have lights that attract bait.
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Is the bull run good for September and October?
Paul, I can’t remember where you are at but September and October are great in Florida. In more northern states it’s starting to happen now.
Oak island NC
Keep the information coming pat!
Will Do!
Great information and video another great presentation thanks
Thank you John!
Yea pat that’s pretty much how inshore saltwater fishing is done here in northeast fl jacksonville st augustine area because seagrass here is pretty much non existence and I believe that’s probably because the bottom content is mostly thick sticky stinky mud amd everyone knows that seagrass doesn’t grow in mud but sand now that’s not saying that there is no seagrass because I know of a couple areas where the bottom is sand in the st johns river but ever since 2016 when first hurricane mathew then in 2017 hurricane Erma hit our area it wiped it all out but can tell you that these areas are very slowly starting to recover because all these spots are very close to a couple parks that I take my dog to and have noticed the seagrassjust starting to try and grow it’s very short now but if no hurricanes move through our area it might be back again in a couple years only God knows for sure and speaking of night fishing that’s all I do in the hot summer months because this yankee can’t take the heat for very long and when the heat makes my fishing more miserable then fun it’s time to call it a day but this labor day weekend I’m going to try something a little different I’m off on Sundays and Monday’s so I usually go night fishing either late sun night or very early mon morning and I usually fish some docks for at least a few hours then head to my usual spots just before daylight but this sun night I think I’ll only spend maybe about an hour on a couple select docks then head for my spots because lately dock fishing hasn’t produced very much not like a couple months ago anyways docks oysters and shoreline grass that’s pretty much what we fish here thanks for the info and video and all you do😀👍
Hopefully that grass grows back. I remember fishing the St Johns years ago and there was tons of eel grass there and one year it all disappeared. I’m sure the fishing has suffered because of it
Great lesson Pat
Always learning
Thanks Mike!
This is really great info, Pat! Nice work buddy!
Great information. I fish in the New Smyrna Beach area and we don’t have grass nearby. I’m looking forward to try these tactics on my next trip. Thank you Pat.
Great video to supplement the tips.
Can we use this process for flounders
Great advice and hopefully I can use it this Wednesday morning. Thanks