inlet snook

Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet friends and fishers, I hope you all had a great weekend, wasn’t too awful bad except for the wind on Sunday, temps stayed good. Lol. Looks like the week is going to be another windy and wavy week for fishing, the water is still warmed up a bit, fluctuating between 71-73 for the most part. Surf report is showing seas 4-5 all week long, and SSE winds in the 10-20 range, which will warm the water up some more, but also make it dirtier and a lot more sargassum weeds showing up, it is pretty bad down there already. NOAA forecasters are saying that this year is going to be a bad year for the east coast and the Caribbean for the weeds. I hope not, but it already is showing signs of it. One good note for you all that like fishing the t-dock, it is open now 24/7, no closures anymore. So here we go with a tad bit of fishing action.

North Jetty

Over here at the beginning of last week, Monday – Wednesday before the winds picked up, we had a decent snook bite on the last of the incoming tide over the rock pile, many over slots were caught, but also quite a few IN slot fish were taken as well. Live shrimp was the bait of choice. The bad thing about it was that the bite only lasted about 30 minutes each day, and if you weren’t there when they turned on, you didn’t score one. Also a few redfish and black drum were caught as well. At the tip, either tide those fishing shrimp or sandfleas were catching some decent sheepshead over the rocks, beach side, and a few black margates too. Another species I saw caught on Sunday when I was down were some Atlantic spadefish, one gal caught two at a time on her double rig! Dead shrimp. I haven’t seen very many of them being caught in a while. Outgoing tide at the tip is still all about the blues and jacks, and a few nice spanish mackerel mixed in on silver spoons, v jigs and gotcha lures. In between the pilings back towards the beach on the inlet side of the jetty is still producing some nice sheepshead for those patient anglers fishing them.

South Jetty

Same over here, at the beginning of the week on the incoming tide we had a decent snook bite on live shrimp and pinfish, most of the fish caught were on the smaller side, but a few keepers were taken. At the tip Monday-Wednesday on goofy jigs and live sandfleas the pompano bite was really good, lots of nice fish being taken, several limits were caught, and most were in the 14-16 inch range. Black margates and sheepshead were also being caught on dead shrimp on the outgoing tide. The water over here has cleaned up a lot, but this weeks SSE winds is going to change all that. Blues and jacks are still around for those tossing jigs, spoons and gotchas.

T-Dock Area

As I mentioned at the start, the T-Dock is now open 24/7, no more closures. Back here the water has remained pretty clean for the most part. Sheepshead, small snappers of different verities are being caught on dead shrimp around the pilings, along with the pesky puffers!! Lol. Sunday while I was down chatting with one of my friends, he had caught a nice black drum and a sheepshead on dead shrimp floating the tide with a split shot rig. The snook and reds have been missing pretty much, but some are being caught at night jig fishing. Bluefish, jacks, and ladyfish are being caught by those fishing small jigs, silver spoons and gotchas on the outgoing tide.

Surf Area, both sides

As I stated at the beginning of the week when things were calm and clean the pompano bite on the south side was decent, several nice fish caught, along with some black drum. Sandfleas and shrimp were the baits. The north side was pretty much the same way, but with some decent whiting and croakers mixed in. Then came the winds kicking up and just stopped all of that!! This week the surf is going to be pretty much all blown out with the SSE winds and 4-5 ft seas.

Well folks, that’s pretty much it for the LAST report for March! If you do get out to go fishing, find a spot to get out of the winds and waves, and who knows what you might catch! Good luck everyone, have a great week! Snookman.