Tripletail are a great-eating fish that is typically found around some type of floating object in open water. Many anglers will fish below buoys or some type of floating trash. Tripletail can be found very close to the objects and they can be caught somewhat easily if you can approach them slowly without scaring them off.
Tripletail Fishing in the Golden Isles Area
Tripletail are not as common on the Atlantic side compared to the Gulf side of Florida, however, there are a decent amount of tripletail do migrate through this area. Spring and fall are the usually the best times to fish for them as they migrate north in the spring and back south in the fall. Anglers target them around the channel markers and around structure.
Tripletail Fishing Tips
Tripletail feed on smaller fish, shrimp and crabs. Anglers usually sight fish for them with slow-sinking jigs or some type of float (bobber) to help keep the bait suspended in the water column.
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