A few reasons: longer growing season, more diverse bait such as pilchards, greenbait (whatever that is), sardines, etc. Also lots of grass flats to hide in, which also clears the water considerably along with a sandy bottom.
Also, there are myriad species for anglers to focus on besides trout: snook, tarpon, redfish, bonefish, inshore grouper. Even stuff like jack crevalle, as Fla anglers are used to catch and release and enjoy the fight (I maintain they don't know how to cook fish, but just my opinion)
Trout are also much spookier due to clear water and the aesthetics of the state's waters, where every jack-leg with a grand in their bank account has a boat or jet-ski mucking up a fisherman's drift.
All of this adds up to contributing factors to bigger trout.
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