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Historical Facts: "El Jobean"

From 1888 until 1921, Southland existed solely as Charlotte Harbor & Northern Railroad depot that serviced Hall Naval Stores and Stephen Brothers turpentine camps that leased prisoners for labor.

In 1922-23, Joel Bean had the town replanted and renamed to an anagram of his name, El Jobe-an, and began building up the town by providing a Post Office & General Store and a Hotel.

 
What is Inshore Florida?
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 Dedicated to angling Florida’s inshore while giving you the knowledge on how to catch more fish. Adaptation to your surroundings will improve your effectiveness in catching bigger and a higher quality of fish, i.e. that lunker! With the right tools, your catch of bigger fish will improve as your angling approach changes. Anybody can go fishing but not everybody catches fish and getting the most from your time on the water is what it is all about when you consider you just put in a hard week of work and today you are off. Another factor to consider is if you take your kids fishing, they want to catch fish, not just sit and wait. A child’s attention span is short, that is why the video gaming is so attractive to them with its quick interjections of action changing in short bursts of varied excitement. Fishing too should be quick bursts of action in a relatively short time to keep them coming back for more. If it were just fishing we, would all go home, that is why the catch is so important?

The tools we give you are actions used repeatedly throughout your angling lifetime only to change depending on where you are fishing. Our site, Inshore Florida focuses on the inshore waters of Florida.

All Florida waters inside a line three miles seaward of the coastline along the Gulf of Mexico and inside a line one-mile seaward of the coastline along the Atlantic Ocean are the area that encompasses Inshore Florida.

 

 

INSHORE FLORIDA REPORT:

Eleven-Foot Tiger Shark on Nokomis Beach!

An Eleven Foot Tiger Shark decided to go sun bathing on the Nokomis beach as of yesterday 05/28, 2010. Mote Marine officials concluded its appearance on the beach might be due to the offshore Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which now closes about twenty-five percent of all commercial Gulf of Mexico fishing or 60,683 square miles of the Gulf.

Gulf Closure Map

The Gulf of Mexico fishing closures now extend all the way to the west Florida shelf, The Blue water at the 200-meter line. This closed area is one of the most abundant commercial fishing areas found off the western coastline of Florida. The shelf is about 140 miles off Venice, Florida and extends northwestwards. The new “best guess” is between 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day are sluing into our Gulf marine environment establishing this oil spill as the largest in American history. That is nearly triple the amount spilled of the Exxon Valdez incident of 1989. Though to different monsters, it is still oil but of a higher grade. Considering our Tarpon travel some 125 miles offshore in their “Daisy Chaining” mating ritual, I wonder to what effect it will have on their migratory run and the offspring they deliver. I have talked to a number of area anglers, boat ramp owners and tackle shops and all have agreed we need to form an alliance to be prepared for the oncoming onslaught. As suggested by The Online Fisherman Team., we need an oil spill prevention plan. Just in case.

 

 

Venice/Nokomis/El Jobean Report

Drum and redfish are on the bite at the beginning of the out flow of low tide on the El Jobean pier. Best baits are Croaker. Reds and trout have been along the shore rocks of the bridge. Wading with shrimp caught a few trout off the Boca Grand pier area. Keeper trout and drum for the dinner table are feeding the mangrove shorelines around the Manasota boat ramp area or north Lemon bay this past week. Wading for trout and reds using Shrimp, soft plastics, topwaters and Gulps are fine baits if you cannot find croakers with a cast net.

 

The topwater bite along the old Coast Guard station sea wall of Snook Alley or north Casey Key just after turning right over Albee Farm Road bridge and the snook are a thick at night, but again most of any fish are on the bite with croaker. Blackburn Point has keeper trout in good numbers on the deeper sides of the oyster bars, along with drum. Waders with soft plastics are starting to catch trout along Blackburn Point’s shorelines too. Out in the grass flats redfish on cut bait or live croakers work best The outside of the channel of the inter-coastal from the end of the Alley through Blackburn and into Turtle to little Sarasota bay has trout on croaker. Angling under Big Pass bridge and along the seawall of Mote Marine produced a mix of fish on live shrimp under floats, to include Spanish, hardheads and Southern Kingfish (Whiting). Again, using croakers, reds and trout showed up on the bite! We tried finger mullet everywhere and they were non-productive for some oddball reason. Maybe I should have been afloat…

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Science helps shed light on shark bites

New technique can identify species and size of the predator

  

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A MUST HAVE BEFORE ANY ATTEMPT TO FISH INSHORE FLORIDA WATERS IS A QUICK REVIEW OF THE LATEST FACTS TO TACKS ON FIN & SKIN MAGAZINE!

Your Guide to Fishing the Flats

A sportsman “Must have” packed to the rim with articles to many a destination ‘Flats Arena” in catching that big one with facts and techniques in the latest of fashion from “Fins & Skins”, it is where you want to be!  From catch’n to cook’n, it serves up a plate to the pallet for all to enjoy. King mackerel is the name and King Creole is the game.

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Friends of Myakka River Present "Myakka's Fishing Hotspots"

Saturday, Jan 23 9:00a to 12:00p

at Myakka River State Park, Sarasota, FL

Discover secrets to fishing the Wild and Scenic Myakka River with veteran Myakka fishermen Dr. Jay Shroyer and Robert Dye. Class includes river geography, best times and places to fish, tried and true methods of fishing with live bait, lures and tips for fly fishing.

Price: $20. Participants receive free park admission

Phone: 316-8139

Age Suitability: Kids and up

Tags: learn fishing hot spots of myakka river state park

Discover secrets to fishing the Wild and Scenic Myakka River with veteran Myakka fishermen Dr. Jay Shroyer and Robert Dye. Class includes river geography, best times and places to fish, tried and true methods of fishing with live bait, lures and tips for fly fishing.

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 Inshore Florida  

Inshore Florida Offshore Anywhere: is an advocate in helping to keep the sport of game fishing ethical while working to improve the survival outlook for several of our pelagic species through research, habitat protection, public education, community outreach, networking, and advocacy.

   

 

 

 

 

  
 Off the Bay and Up the River from El Jobean:

 

SNOOK HAVEN

- "You and a Canoe" –

At Snook Haven, little has but changed but the faces and styles; all that remain of a day from our past. If you sit back, you can still hear Johnny Weissmuller ordering a cold can of brew from over the bar back. Old style pictures still hang at crooked angles and if you listen carefully, ignoring the hustle and bustle of the modern world down the road, you will hear a raptor’s cry as Marlene orders the same, waiting from a break in the rain, before filming again begins with Revenge of the Killer Turtles (1947). As an old Florida, bayou-style restaurant and pleasantly primitive entertainment venue, Snook Haven Restaurant & Fish Camp has been a fixture in Venice for more than 50 years. Even before that, anglers traversing the fish-filled waters of the Myakka River in the early 1900s camped in the area. Used as everything from fish camp to fish house, this journey back into time is well worth the time to visit. Back when I first moved to Venice, Florida, Snook Haven is where I set up my head quarters and rendezvous for ReelnFish Charters. Running clients up the river for a chance to mingle with our Florida wildlife and catch Bass to freshwater Channel Catfish. Big cats in the twenty-pound plus range on light tackle to cane poles. Camping on the banks or overnight pack-ins. moving down stream, we would catch everything from Snook to Reds and if the tides are right, you can catch Bull sharks on one side of the river and Bass on the other, along with an occasional Blue crab too. Now retired to angling and writing about it instead, I enjoy my visits back where “Tarzan” slept lazily along an out stretched branch of a giant oak draped with Spanish moss beyond the restaurant's waterfront, back deck. There one can find a canoe tucked between a fleet canoes to kayaks loosely tied to the aging dock. Here you can elect to explore the slow-moving waters by powerboat or as Snook Haven's slogan states - "You and a Canoe" – paradise to me! In the canoe the river is yours, at eye level with the crocks, the beauty is bountiful. One and a half hours at fifteen dollars is a steal of a deal for either a canoe or kayak, with all safety equipment provided. If you own a boat of 17 feet or small, you may use their boat ramp at a reasonable charge of five dollars plus tax. The boat launch is closed because of the crowds and live bands on Saturdays & Sunday’s between 11-6 and on Thursday between 8-3and the rest of the time restricted to dawn to dusk exclusively!

Once the haunts of the “King”, Elvis and Senator Kennedy before he was President and twice visited by President Regan and Bush Sr., Snook Haven is a rendezvous with the past on the sun-dappled shores of the winding Myakka River in Venice. Think giant oaks draped with Spanish moss, graceful cabbage palms, and tea-colored waters flowing by. Two movies have been filmed there, the most famous a Tarzan flick called Revenge of the Killer Turtles. On Thursdays, the public is invited to hear the Gulf Coast Banjo Society practice from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and every Sunday the place overflows with weekend bikers and other regulars who gather round the shaded outdoor picnic tables to listen to live music. For overnight stays, you can bring your own RV or rent one of the fully furnished cabins. Call first, though, as many are undergoing renovation. Snook Haven also offers guided pontoon boat charters up and down the Myakka River. Bring a camera; 1 November afternoon, one of the largest alligators the boat captain said he has ever seen charged the charter and dove straight under. Even grown men shrieked. However, the boat also meanders down some spectacularly scenic stretches of pristine county-owned lands that will never be developed. River tours are available Wednesday through Sunday. You can eat indoors or dine outside at a wooden table overlooking the river. Lunch is served from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; dinner runs from 4-9 p.m. seven days a week. Specialties include gator bites (of course!) and grouper, fried, grilled or blackened. Try it stuffed with crab or with the shrimp and clam platter. December, when the early mornings and evening are cool, is a splendid time of year for this experience. Bring bug spray, as the mosquitoes can be vicious.

 

 

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