Randy from Orlando with a lovely cubera snapper.

Hello there all you Sebastian Inlet fans and friends! I hope you all had a great weekend despite all the rain we had both days. This week will be much better, no rain in the forecast the next few days, and some cooler temps with that. I don’t have any good news on the fishing as the water quality has everything shut down again, same as last week, too much freshwater coming out with the tannic acid stained C54 canal rain runoff. The only fish being caught were in the early morning incoming tide, north side, and the very first hour or so of the outgoing tide, north side.

So before I get into the action spots, I would like to address some ETIQUITTE issues we are having on the north jetty. First off, the jetty is open to EVERYONE, sight seers, pedestrians, anglers, and now it is time for the “bird watchers” to be around doing their thing! Since the south side is unavailable to them, they are all over here on the north side, and out on the jetty. The jetty is NOT only for fishing, it is for anybody interested in the ocean, and it’s marine life, and birds. Everyone has the privilege of being out there, it isn’t a right, so you anglers PLEASE be courteous and share the space, do NOT ask anyone to move out of your way so you can fish, it doesn’t work that way. We’re all allowed to be on the railing, that’s why the deck was built. The reason I am bringing this up is while I was down there over the weekend and standing at the rail at the tip, one of the young guns asked me to move out of the way so he can fish. Don’t do that. One of our rules is that any, and all rude and bad behavior will NOT be tolerated! So please, share the wealth! Now on to our action spot, yeah spot, only the north jetty, everywhere else was all messed up. Like I always say, I tell it like it is, good or bad.

North Jetty

Out here all the action has been on the early morning incoming high tide, several species of fish were being caught. Some snook, not enough to write home about, but a few being caught on live mullet, pigfish, and live shrimp, with the pigs being the better bait for this time of year. Most of the fish were either too big, or too small, but there were several slots taken home. Another species that was being caught was the spanish mackerel on live greenies and small silver spoons. Most I saw were in the 14-16 inch range. Ocean side of the jetty both tides until the dirty water moves around on the outgoing tide. Another species being caught on the incoming if you have the right gear, light tackle, are the lookdowns, on small shrimp, tiny jigs, and small live greenies. Also I only saw a few mangrove snapper caught, and they weren’t very big. Early last week we had a brief bite on the cubera snapper, two nice 8-10 pound fish were caught that I saw, one on shrimp, one on mullet, and I did hear that a few more were caught when I wasn’t there. Also I heard about one large permit being caught on live shrimp. All this action was on the incoming tide with the clean water.

South Jetty

No report as there weren’t very many anglers out due to the nasty water conditions.

T-Dock Area

Same back here, nothing but catfish and puffers. The water was also very bad quality, but plenty of baitfish! Majorra and finger mullet.

Surf Area, both sides

Due to the wind and the bigger surf, both sides were blown out. A few folks were fishing the north side, but the water was too low due to the tide phase it was, low, no water, but it was decently clean. The sandbar is back!

Well that’s all I have for this week. The weather is supposed to be good for a change, but we’ll see how that works out. The wind and waves according to my surf report shows ENE, and 5-10 mph. Should be a great week to fish. That will help clean up the water again. Have a great week everyone!