First off, I’m sorry for being absent for so long. Between the poor inshore fishing here in my area and the summer heat, this old man has been hiding in the A/C…

On the Fort Pierce fishing scene, things have been pretty good. Even though the snook bite has been a bit sluggish, likely due to our cool-ish water temps (70 degrees), other species are plenty active.

WOW, what a windy winter season here on the Treasure Coast! I’m fairly certain we didn’t have more than two consecutive days of “nice” weather in the past many months. Though the temperatures were relatively mild with no freezes or even frost, the wind and rain kept me at home for far too long.

With slowly declining water temperatures and winter approaching it’s time to think sheepshead. While I’ve been thinking about them for a couple of weeks now this past Tuesday was my first time targeting them this season.

Hit the water with Ric on Friday. My goal was to fish an area I haven’t been in a month or so and see if the mullet run was strong here. It wasn’t strong on the east shoreline, but the west side of the river had decent concentrations of silvers in fingerling through adult sizes.

With September’s gradually cooling evenings allowing the once too warm waters to begin dropping into the eighty-five and lower degree ranges my interest in fishing again is restored…

Not to sound too cheesy, but Darren, Wyatt and Tommy had a ha-wrasseing trip in and around the Fort Pierce Inlet this week.

I made it out five days this past week, three of which were scouting endeavors. Monday, my wife Kim joined me as we scouted an area I haven’t visited in many years. The area was alive with fingerling mullet, but was absent of activity.

Fishing, especially for snook has been quite good in and around the Fort Pierce Inlet lately. While we are targeting snook with live pilchards and threadfin herring we are certainly hooking, though not necessarily landing, plenty of other species!

With gear rigged and the livewell full of pilchards and threadfins we made our way to the mouth of the inlet. Boat traffic was so active that David could barely stand on his recently replaced knee. We left the channel edges and concentrated on the jetty fish.

It’s good to be back on the platform! The knee injury is well behind me and looking forward to the cooler weather that’s in our near future!

After being snubbed by the trout in one of my favorite spots then being continuously flipped-off (yep, they were tailing) by a finicky school of black drum Matt made contact with this 40 inch redfish.

Bill caught a bunch of redfish this morning on the Mosquito Lagoon and finished up with an average-sized trout.