Water Temps Keeping Bite Slow @ Inlet

Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet fishing friends, I hope everyone enjoyed the nice “springtime” weather we had over the weekend! Was pretty nice out, and is supposed to be all week long. This report is going to be a little short again as the fishing was pretty slow all weekend that I saw, and heard. I believe the water temperature is still playing a big role in it being so slow, plus the lack of any baitfish being around. I was down both days over the weekend and not much being caught.

South jetty in the early morning incoming tide there were several under slot snook being caught on live majorra, and a few redfish, which you still cannot keep. At the tip on the outgoing tide about the only thing I saw caught was some smaller black Margate on dead shrimp. I did hear about a couple nice keeper flounder caught in the “pocket area” on the beach side of the jetty, live shrimp did the trick on them. And that was pretty much it for out there. Back in the back around the t dock and cleaning station, there was a decent snook and redfish bite on Saturday, both tides on live majorra, one of my friends said she caught 4 nice redfish, which you cannot keep, season is still closed, and 3 snook, one under slot, and two over slot. She returned on Sunday and in the same area caught a 31 inch slot snook on the very first cast! And after that only a couple under slots were caught. Didn’t see much of anything else caught back here as the t dock is closed, and that is where we see the other species caught.

The surf areas just north of the north jetty, and the area just south of the south jetty have been pretty slow due to the cooler water temperatures, still at 73 as of this writing, and the silted-up water. About the only thing I saw caught in these areas over the weekend were a couple nurse sharks, and bonnet head sharks. Well, that’s all I have for this week guys and gals, it will get better, we just need some warmer water to move in, and STAY here, oh and some more baitfish. Have a great week, supposed to be nice and “springtime” all week long!! Cheers, snookman.