Fishing Spotted Sea Trout

When To Fish For Spotted Sea Trout?

Like redfish the Florida spotted sea trout do not migrate, they are fished and caught here all year round. My favorite time to fish for spotted sea trout is in the spring and the fall using top water plugs, to target the largest and most aggressive fish. The best time of day is at sunrise and sunset unless it’s overcast. My favorite tide is just after high tide when the tide starts going out and falling. And remember there is a trout bite under lighted docks at night during the summer months with the tide is high, being the best.

Where To Fish For Spotted Sea Trout?

The Florida spotted sea trout can be caught in a variety of locations, along the jetties, in the surf, sounds, inlets, rivers, creeks, and flats. The best advice I can give you is that the Spotted Sea Trout like clear clean water. Look for points with tide lines, creek mouths, deep sloughs between oyster beds, fast water next to slow water and shallow water next to deep water. Look for calm waters and, there are days these fish might be on the bottom, and days the Trout are scattered and some day the fish will be concentrated in one spot. Watch for school of bait and the paths that they swim, spotted sea trout like to ambush their prey.

How We Will Fish For Spotted Sea Trout?

The spotted sea trout can be caught in a variety of methods. The use of light tackle and fly fishing tackle is the way we like to catch spotted sea trout. Look for calm clear waters and, on sunny days these fish might be on the bottom, and some days the Trout are scatter. These fish have a pattern, once you under stand it you will want to remember it and use it again. Janet and I love to fish top water plugs using the walk the dog method of lure retrieval, just remember let the sea trout hook itself before you set the hook.

Why Spotted Sea Trout Are Fun?

All family members can enjoy catching spotted sea trout young and old. These are beautiful fish with spots just like a freash water rainbow trout and you can always tell when you are fighting a sea trout by there distinctive way they shake their head. One more thing about sea trout, they can be clumsy and will miss your plug. It is a blast to have a spotted sea trout strike at your top-water plug and then return and strike again and again, is just one of the reasons why it’s so much fun catching these fish. When the trout bite is on, life is good.

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