Hello fellow anglers ! December in S.W. Florida once again 2024 can you believe it? It was a crazy year for the weather department. Glad that is over with for this year. Prayerfully we all survived the feeding frenzy called thanksgiving. The holiday this month is Christmas if you are looking for a gift for one of those anglers in your life I have gift certificates available. Then they could call and setup a trip when they are ready. They can be a good birthday gift too. Any way lets talk about some fishing. Inshore this month around the docks as the water gets colder the sheepshead will start chewing on the barnacles. They have some strong teeth and love crustaceans. Sheepshead are going into the gulf to spawn  when the waters get cold in January and February. This is also true for the flounder population they will be migrating into the gulf to spawn as well. The flounder are more aggressive they will eat live baits like greenies, pinfish and shrimp. They will lay on the sand waiting for a unsuspecting bait to swim by. Drifting in the passes tossing those little jigs for the pompano can be productive for this fast swimming species. Redfish on the grass flats and along the mangrove edges and on some of the coldest days they may be found in some deep pockets where the water temperature changes slower. Trout will be found on the grass flats hanging on the edges of the sand where there dark spotted back helps them blend in. If you drift you cover lots more water and have a greater chance of finding some of those gator trout. Like all fish the trout will face into the current and wait for food to swim by or rise up and grab something off the surface. Black drum should be migrating up into the rivers, you may see some big schools traveling together. Looking at the offshore possibilities. This time of year it is time to go offshore weather permitting and run the lines of stone crab buoys in search of the tripletail. This is site fishing at it finest, you drive past the buoys and if you see what looks like a garbage bag around the line of the buoy. Continue and make a large U turn and approach with a shrimp on a rod and cast to the buoy and watch the fish turn and come after the bait. And it is game time , back the boat away from the buoy and have fun. If you are traveling you may find some cobia in small schools of 2or 3 fish. site cast to them also.  and if you like bottom fishing get out to some of the natural ledges within 12miles of the beach there should be snapper, lanes and mangrove . There should be white grunts and several different porgies. So if you would like to learn some of these methods of harvesting fish, give me a call Capt. Bart Marx at 941-979-6517 or e-mail me at captbart@alphaomegacharters.com And remember I have gift cards that would make some great gifts I honor them for 1 year after purchase. And I also do training sessions, I come on your boat and show you and your best fishing partner for a hands on training trip. To show you where you can use your boat and tackle. This helps to shorten the learning curve and helps you learn where you can take your boat with out destroying the local grass beds. So give me a call. And always remember singing drags and tight lines make me smile. <*(((((>{