SEBASTIAN INLET FISHING

Good morning all you Sebastian Inlet hardcore fishing junkies! I hope everyone had a great weekend, a safe weekend especialyy the fishing moms out there, Happy Mothers Day! After the fact. Lol. This weeks report is going to be a carbon copy of last weeks, absolutely not much going on over the weekend! Deadsville. Main reason being again, the poor water quality, dirty and still too cool, 76 as of this writing, should be in the low 80’s by now, and the continuous brisk SSE winds stirring up the surf, and keeping the weeds coming, and NO bait!

There are a few mullet around, just nor what the springtime run should be for our area, and the majorra again have gone on vacation! The guys are having a really tough time catching any. And like always, no bait, no fish. But on a good note, the dredge pipes that were in the water at the T dock have been removed, south side pumping is done, so the area is open again for castnetting. The T dock on the other hand is still closed, and will be for the duration of the dredging project.

Also, while I was out on the north jetty last week doing some surveying, they are coming along nicely with the project from what I saw and chatted with the lead engineer. Remember, it won’t be finished until JULY! Not May, not June… JULY! I keep hearing rumors from anglers that it will be done early, so I just want to set the record straight. It’s July… Because that is what’s on the district website.

So that’s it for this week, wish I had better fishing news, but I tell it like it is. Everybody have a great week! And it will get better.

The wind laid down early in the week and let us fish the beach to find some jacks and a few tarpon. We managed to jump a couple and we caught a few jacks but by mid week the wind picked back up kept us in the lagoon. We still had a decent snook bite and a few bigger jacks on both live bait and artificial. We managed to find some good tripletail as well on the crab trap buoys and brought a couple home for dinner.

Still waiting on that wind to lay down and get out and chase some tarpon, jacks and king mackerel along the beaches.

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!

Great week of inshore fishing again as the spring bait has finally showed in the last week or two. Big snook have been the main target but we’ve got a few nice trout, several short and under slot snook, and triple tail as well.

Winds have kept us inshore and we haven’t been able to get off the beach so we haven’t been able to catch tarpon, sharks and kingfish. The winds should slow down this month and we should start getting on the tarpon as they migrate north in the next week or two.

Hello all you Sebastian Inlet fanactics, I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend! This report is going to be another short one, due mostly to the bad water conditions we’ve been having at the inlet for a few days now. The SE winds have muddied/silted up the water along the beaches south, and on the incoming tide it sucks it all into the inlet and just messes everything up, also to mention that the Sargassum weed has been a big problem as well. The surf water on the north side is pretty clean, but the Sargassum is terrible over there as well. The other good thing is that the water is starting to warm up to where it should be, 79 degrees as of this report. Another good thing is that there is bait fish everywhere now. Majorra on both sides of the inlet, and hand sized mullet running into the inlet.

While I was out on the north jetty last Tuesday and Wednesday doing some maintenance work and painting, I sew several nice schools of mullet all around the jetty, coming down the beach. Didn’t see any fish caught in any of the boats that were out there though. The water warming up, and the mullet showing up on the beach is a sign of good things to come. All that will help get some of the snook coming out the inlet and swimming the beach, and possibly feeding, and may also attract some tarpon as well. So if you fish the beach, be on the lookout for that.

The south side has been again, hit and miss. Both tides at the south jetty have been pretty dirty and weedy, so the fishing has been slow, except for the tip on the outgoing tide, where they have been catching some black margates, blue runners and small jacks. In the back around the T-dock and cleaning station has slowed down considerably, but there are a few slots and oversized snook being caught, you just need to be there when they decide to turn on! Bait back here has been plentiful, mullet and majorra.

That’s pretty much it in a nutshell for this week. Supposed to be nice all week, so grab your gear, water, some bait and get out and catch some dinner!

Good week of inshore fishing despite the winds. Spring is here and water temps have climbed to the low 80s midday and the snook have been active. Along with warmer water, the clarity is fantastic for sight fishing as the water is clear up to 6′ in most places which is great for sight fishing fanatics. However, the big snook and trout are very wary and spook easily in the clear waters.

There are plenty of big snook in the lagoon around the deeper shorelines along the mangroves. Fish will eat artificial baits early and live bait throughout the day. Big jacks are starting to show up in the lagoon, if we could get out on the beach consistently, we could have a blast catching them but it’s good to see some in the lagoon. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for calmer winds and west winds so we can get out on the beach for some sharks, tarpon, kingfish and jacks.

Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet fishing junkies! I hope you all had a great weekend, and a Happy Easter! It’s time for this weeks report on what’s up at the inlet.

Here we go. Again, for the most part the fishing has been really slow, one day good, the next few days nothing. The main reason is the water quality and conditions. All weekend while I was down at the inlet the winds have been pretty brisk out of the ESE 10-20 mph, the seas have been 3-4 making conditions on the south jetty pretty wet with the waves busting over the small, and low jetty. Also, the wind and the waves have turned the entire inlet into a muddy mess again, AND on top of that last Friday while I was down the sargassum weed has gotten to be pretty thick making fishing tougher as well. It’s everywhere!

The only fish I saw being caught over the weekend were some nice snook being caught in the area back around the t-dock and cleaning station. Back there the water is calmer and for the most part, a little less weedy than out front on the jetty. Sunday afternoon the bite was pretty good with several over slots being caught, and several slots being taken as well! Live majorra was the bait of choice, if you could find some, they have been hard to get. One day they might be there, the next few days they are not. Just like the fish.

The anglers fishing from the boats also have been doing very well with the snook on both sides of the inlet along the shorelines, lot of big fish being caught using live threadfins for bait. The inside of the south jetty on the incoming tide has been producing plenty of under slot snook, and some jack crevalle. Before the winds picked up, they were catching some pretty nice flounder on the beach side of the jetty, but that is all blown out now, along with any surf fishing. You can expect all this week that the winds are going to be pretty tough out of the ESE, and again, the water hasn’t warmed back up, as of this writing it was still showing 73, too cool for the hot action we need.

Anyway folks, that’s it for this week. The weather all week is supposed to be nice, just a bit breezy. So grab your gear, water and go find you a calm spot in the back of the inlet and catch ya one!

Cheers.

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.

Hello there all you Sebastian Inlet fans! I hope everyone enjoyed the great weekend we had. Fishing wasn’t very good at the inlet, dismal at best! So this report will be a brief one.

The water has remained 74-75 degrees, which is where it should be, but the water conditions at the inlet have been a train wreck! The brisk SSE winds and the bigger surf from the winds has dirtied up the water and made it look like the Mississippi River, very muddy and lots of seaweed everywhere! Over the weekend it didn’t matter where you fished, the water was nasty. And I didn’t see any fish being caught except for a few small whiting and black Margate’s caught on the south jetty. It was pretty rough and wet out there though, not a lot of folks fishing it.

Back in the back, south side, again I didn’t see any fish being caught. I chatted with one of my fishing gals that was there Sunday when I got there, and she said she did catch 3 snook on live majorra, 2 over slot and 1 under slot. And that was all the snook I heard about! Heck, even the boaters weren’t catching anything.

This week is going to be another “iffy” week with the weather and water conditions, supposed to have another front move over for Tuesday bringing rain and some more brisk winds from the NNE, 15-25, and the seas are supposed to go up to 5-7 by late Wednesday through Friday. So if you are going to fish the inlet, the back should be your best bet. Like I have always said, I don’t sugar coat anything to get you all to go fishing, I tell it like it is at the inlet. I love to see you all catch fish, but if it isn’t going to be good, I’ll tell you! Anyway, you all have a great week!

We’ve had a windy spring so far and this last week was no exception with 15-25 mph winds all week. The only positive was that the winds were out of the south and east and the water temps were good. Spring bait is starting to show up and the snook action is getting to where it should be with some trout and a few redfish in the mix. There’s a few schools of black drum around as well. We’ve been getting plenty of snook on most trips with mostly slot and a few under slot fish. We’ve also been getting a few over slot fish but not as many big fish in the 40+ inch range. I am seeing a few bigger trout around but not too as many as I would expect this time of year.

The beach fishing isn’t happening with the winds and rough seas and the inlet has been silty from all of the beach renourishment and the dredging in the inlet. If you’re fishing the inlet, be wary of the dredging operation and the pipes are crossing the inlet and are submerged most of the time but they also can be floating at the surface. There is a sign on the dredge barge on which side to pass if you can’t see the pipe.