This year we are having a steady amount of cold fronts coming through the Anna Maria Island area and the fish have definitely gotten into their winter patterns. On our fishing charters we are doing quite a bit of structure fishing around docks, bridges, and some of the artificial reefs in Tampa bay. Also when weather allows we are fishing areas off the beach in search of pompano and sheepshead. The structure fishing is producing sheepshead along with gag groupers, sea bass, and still the occasional mangrove snapper. On the warmer days I have been catching whitebait and we have been doing well with good action on snook, ladyfish, seatrout, redfish, and jack crevelle in the Manatee river. We had one day last week we caught over 20 slot sized trout, 30+ snook, 4 redfish, and all the ladyfish you could want in a half day fishing charter. The sheepshead fishing is starting to really pick up and as we get into February it will be at its peak and will be one of our main target species on the colder days.