keeper snook

Jeremy with a keeper on the jetty

Hello all you Sebastian Inlet fans and fanatics, I hope you all had a great weekend! Here we go with this week’s SLOW report of the fishing at the inlet. Most, if not all the action was on the north jetty last week, and over the weekend, as the SSE winds we had at the end of the week just ruined the south side and turned it into a huge mud hole! Needless to say, the water was very muddy!

Last week Wednesday through Friday the water had warmed up to 70 degrees which sparked a short-lived bite of the fish. Black drum, redfish, and some slot and oversized snook were being caught in the early morning hours, just after sunup on live shrimp at the jetty tip on the incoming tide. The water over here was cleaner than the south side, so the fish played a little. Other species being caught were some sheepshead between the pilings and over the rock pile at the tip on live sand fleas, shrimp, and fiddler crabs. Beach side of the jetty I saw a few decent whiting caught on cut shrimp. On the outgoing tide it was all about the bluefish and jack crevalle on anything tossed out, they are not picky!! That’s pretty much it for the north side.

Surf and south side were pretty slow due to the dirty water, it was calm until last Thursday when the winds switched and messed it all up rough wise. Catfish, rays and small sharks made up most of the catches on both sides.

This week is going to be windy and rough, and the water has dropped back down to 68, and might go lower with the winds being out of the westerly directions, and the seas have kicked back up again, so I don’t see much going to happen until the water cleans back up and warms up again. So, that’s it in a nutshell.

You all have a great week!