sebastian jetty

Good morning all you Sebastian Inlet fans, I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend with the nice “cooler” weather we had! It wasn’t so sweltering as it had been. Breezy and nice. With that being said, this report is unfortunately going to be another brief one mostly due to the not so nice water conditions we had at the inlet, thanks to the very high king tides and the 3-4 ft swells with an occasional rogue 5 footer messing things up everywhere, making it pretty tough to fish with all the wash over on the jetty making it very dirty and rough, plus not to mention that a lot of sargassum weed has shown up as well. The only good thing I can say is that there was a ton of finger mullet and greenies around the entire inlet, but nothing messing with them. The only thing I saw over the weekend were some Spanish mackerel and blue fish and jacks in them. So here we go with a short summery of the action spots.

North Jetty

Out here most of the action was on the incoming tide with the spanish Mackerel being the topic of the weekend. Lot of fish being caught on live greenies fished on a float rig, or freelined, also on tiny white jigs and gotcha lures. Most of the fish were in the 12-15 inch range, with Sunday being the better day. A lot of fish were caught. Other species I saw being caught were some very under sized pompano, palmetto’s, and a few decent whiting, all on cut shrimp. Beachside of the jetty. No action on the snook or the redfish, I saw only one redfish caught over the weekend. Outgoing tide at the tip was just as slow, catfish, jacks and a few bluefish were caught on cut baits. That pretty much wraps up this side. Was really slow.

South Jetty

Over here same thing, very dirty water, and very high tide making it tough to fish as the waves were smashing on the rocks where anglers usually like to stand and fish. The only fish I saw worth mentioning over the weekend were a few decent snook I saw caught at the tip of jetty, incoming tide on live pinfish and pigfish. Not much else except for puffers and catfish on the outgoing on dead shrimp.

T-Dock Area

Back here the water was also pretty dirty with not very many folks fishing it. Plenty of baitfish, but no predators after them.

Surf Area, both sides

The surf on both sides was an absolute mess with the high dirty water and the sargassum around, along with the rip tides just made it very unfishable everywhere! So nothing to report there.

Well, that’s all I have for this week, sorry it is so awful, but as always, it will improve. The good thing in all this is with the NNE winds it has lowered the water temperature in our area to 83 as of this writing, which is a lot better that what it was for this time of the year. So everyone hang in there, it will get better, it always does as the fall time is usually the better time to fish. Have a great week everyone!