josh snook

Joshua Bedolla shows off a beautiful 39-inch snook he caught last week at Sebastian Inlet.

Hello there, Sebastian inlet enthusiasts; I hope everyone had a great weekend! Off we go with ANOTHER boring report. I dislike writing reports like this, but as I always say, I tell it like it is so you don’t waste your time and money to travel to the inlet for fishing when nothing is biting.

Water conditions continue to be the biggest issue, and the SSE winds have been churning up and clouding the water. Sargassum weed remains a big problem, especially on the south side, and water temperatures have dropped back down to 75 as of this writing. All of this equates to poor fishing at the inlet. The lack of bait fish again doesn’t help either: The mullet I saw a week ago have vanished, and the mojarra that were thick last week have taken another vacation. To that end, here is the gist of things:

South jetty

The water is just awful on either tide. Last weekend, all I saw caught were sail cats and small bluefish eating everything you tossed out! They were everywhere. No snook anywhere due to the presence of bluefish. Back around the T Dock and cleaning table, water conditions were slightly better, but there were no fish around. I didn’t see or hear of any snook over the weekend, and like I said earlier, the mojarra usually found here were on vacation. Even the commercial guys that net them to sell to the bait shops were not getting any! And back here the snook bite usually coincides with the bait being here.

North side

The water was much cleaner, but again, the fish were absent. The only fish I saw being caught were bigger jack crevalle in the back at the end of cove road on live and dead baits. Under the bridge were a couple of undersized snook caught on live mojarra along the rocks — and that is the only snook activity I heard of in the entire inlet.

Surf area, both sides

The south side was a washed-up mess, nobody was fishing it due to the waves, dirty water, and massive seaweed problem. The north side was cleaner, but nobody was fishing the surf. It looked good to me, the absence of anglers was largely due to low tides in the morning and the big sandbar around the jetty, making it tough to reach deeper water. You would have to go north on the beach where everyone swims, which makes it tough to fish.

Well, that’s all I have for this week. Expect good fishing weather until the storms arrive on Friday, so get out beforehand and hopefully catch dinner. Have a great week, have fun and be safe!