Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet fanatics, I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! It was a bit breezy to say the least. While I was checking the camera and weather conditions at the jetty for Saturday, I saw a couple times where the winds were sustained at 22 mph, with gusts 39-40 mph, and seas to 6 ft! Not an ideal situation! There were some hard-core anglers out there dressed in what I call “full battle gear”, rain coats, boots, rain pants, hoodies, slickers etc. fishing, but no thanks. The waves were busting up through the grates, and over the side walls on the north face, not a comfortable situation, south jetty was pretty much the same, was busting up over the rocks and washing over the entire jetty front to back, very dangerous! Nobody was out there. By Sunday it had calmed down quite a bit, but was still pretty rough non the less.

The good thing about it all is that the water DID NOT get very dirty like the last go round because the winds were more ENE, instead of NNE, which allowed the water to stay cleaner and not muddy up. So, it shouldn’t take too long for the fishing to pick back up, just needs to calm down a bit more, the water temperature is still good at 70-72 degrees, which is good for our winter fishing species. So with all that being said, we only had one day, Sunday that was decent enough to get down, get out on the jetties and the park to see what, if anything was being caught, and it was pretty slim pickins everywhere! The only place I saw any fish being caught was out on the north jetty where they were catching some very small jack crevalle, bluefish, blue runners, all on cut dead baits. I did see a couple of nice sheepshead caught by one angler on cut shrimp, and two decent black drum, also on cut shrimp. All of these fish were caught at the tip of the jetty, on the outgoing tide. And for the snook and redfish, zip, zero, no reports on any being caught except for some in the night time tides on jigs. I didn’t stay for the incoming tide as it was going to get pretty wet with the waves still being 3-4 ft. The rest of the fishing areas in the park, t-dock, beaches fishless, and rocks along both sides were too rough to fish with the swell coming out of the ENE.

That’s about all I have for this week, like I pointed out, the weather messed it back up, but this week is supposed to be pretty nice with the winds turning more in the westerly directions which will calm it back down some more, and allow it to clean back up, and hopefully help the fishing pick back up to where it was a week ago. We shall see. I hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe week! Happy December!! Snookman.