EP 660: Nearshore Public Reef Fishing

Salt Strong Fishing

Joe Simonds

Bassfishing, Wilderness, Saltstrong, Sports, Fishingtips, Fishing, Fishstrong, Redfish, Saltwaterfishing

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we head out with Capt. Mike Goodwine (aka Blackneck Adventures) to fish some public nearshore reefs for snapper, grouper, and tripletail.

Enjoy the good, the bad, the ugly, and The PRAWN!!!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast, Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it.
0:10.9	Prepare to laugh.
0:12.2	Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.
0:16.8	And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.
0:20.3	Here's your host joe simons like
0:23.3	diamonds you go oh luke's on guys we're out here i think that's something missing with me
0:31.1	a little near shore fishing prong versus some live bait. We'll see what happens.
0:38.3	We're in 15, 16 feet of water.
0:42.3	Just random little public reef.
0:45.3	Reef fishing. Blackneck.
0:48.3	Joe Simons like diamonds.
0:50.3	If you're listening to in Luke Simons, like diamonds.
0:53.3	Mr. Artificial himself.
0:56.6	That's something that's my mind. Yes, we just got some white bait sitting on a, basically
1:02.0	just a big old jighead. Blackneck already had one grouper. Luke just got one. Well, it's tied up. And Blackneck, how would you describe this, this reef here? It's just, uh...
1:16.6	This is, actually, it's the Egmont Reef. It's a bunch of rocks, big rocks, boulders. I think it's, uh, they actually brought some stuff from the Skyway Bridge and dumped out here too.
1:31.3	But public reef could be good certain times a year.
1:37.3	Right now is usually when it starts to get real good.
1:40.3	In what time?
1:41.3	A month from now to be, this thing will be covered with sheephead.
1:45.0	So you're talking November and the, in the late fall, winter.
1:49.0	Yes, once you start cooling off, but right now you can come here and get anywhere from Mangrove Snapper, group, there you go.
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