Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet peeps! I hope you all had a great weekend despite all the rain and thunderstorms we had with hurricane Helene, and everyone is well! This report is one of those I don’t like doing, but I call it as I see it.

With the park being closed last week on Wednesday and Thursday because of the storm threat, and it opening back up Friday, and there was nobody out fishing, and the fact that the water quality over the weekend was very poor from the winds and huge surf kicked up, the water got pretty dang muddy and tannin stained from the intercoastal runoff. While I was down on Saturday and Sunday there were all kinds of mullet of all different sizes and shapes, tons of greenies and pilchards, but absolutely ZERO predator fish after them! The mullet schools were so relaxed they looked like they were on vacation! Lol.

About the only thing I saw on either day were just a handful of spanish mackerel being caught, and they were kind of small, and a ton of those pesky catfish everywhere, heck even the boaters were catching catfish! Not good. I didn’t see the boaters catch any snook or redfish either. So yeah, it was a bad weekend to say the least. Even a few of my “hard core” jetty pros worked real hard Sunday to catch something, but nothing. It will get better, it always does after a storm rolls through, it just takes a few days for the cleaner ocean water to come back in and rejuvenate the area to an acceptable salinity level the fish are comfortable with. The baitfish can tolerate it, but not the gamefish.

So we will see how this week goes, and hopefully it cleans back up pretty quickly. And that’s all I have my friends. Have a great week! Snook man.