Beach Fishing With Paul Sperco Palm Beach/Martin County Area

  Hope everyone is had a great Labor Day Holiday weekend and if you have spent anytime on the beach the past couple of days the word “hydration” has hopefully been in your vocabulary. . The westerly breezes have not given much relief and the hours from 11 to 3 have been brutal on the beach . The winds are forecast to change to a northerly direction the next couple of days and the surf is predicted to pick up a bit . That should help anyone who is trying to catch a few of the early season pompano as these calm 1 foot seas actually make things a bit difficult. My friend and fellow pompano angler Jimbo Shipes always says “First day of the west is always the best “. A series of calm flat days makes me change tactics a bit and although I did not have a banner day today with the pompano , I made my first drop off to New England Seafood this season with 5 nice pompano . The fish that we caught the week before the swell from Hurricane Erin started all ended up in my freezer . When the surf calms down and cleans up during the spring the removal of the “bling”, floats and beads , will increase your catch rate . If you are fishing a rig with a double dropper loop , you can actually remove the hook and take the floats and beads off and just thread the loop back through the eye of the hook . Keep the beads and floats to switch back to a standard rig set up when conditions call for that . That is how I fished today, bare hooks with plain Electric Chicken Ez Flea bait . . Im not really complaining about only dropping off 5 today . It’s September 1 and just catching some keepers at this time of year is great . The intel from the Daytona- Melbourne area is positive also as that area is producing keeper pompano along with lots of throwbacks. Hopefully with the predicted wind shift some of those fish to the north of us will start making their way south . I hope everyone has a great week. Good luck and catch em up .