From Whites Tackle - Ft Pierce

The trout fishing was good yesterday south around Bear point to the power lines on the east side of the river soft baits have been the best. The pompano fishing was good around the south jetty along with a few flounder live shrimp and clams are working very well. Snook fishing at night continues to be good around the bridges and the jetty on jigs and a few fish on live bait during the day. 

From Capt Joe Ward @ Bait Shack - FT Pierce

Inshore you can look for a good redfish bite around the docks along Indian River Drive and also around the mangroves to the north of Queen's Cove.  Try a live shrimp, a soft plastic bait like a D.O.A. Glow Shrimp or a piece of cut ladyfish.  You may also want to try a small crab if you can find them.  Depending on the water temps you can look for the trout bite to be good.  The warmer the water the shallower the trout will be and the colder the water temps you will want to look for them in the deeper cuts and canals.  A live shrimp or a small live white bait will be hard to beat.  You can try your luck for a snook around the local bridges and in the Ft. Pierce Inlet.  The baits of choice will be pilchards, mullet and a pig or pinfish.  Around the docks you will want to try a select size live shrimp.  There should be plenty of spanish mackerel, bluefish and jacks in the Ft. Pierce Inlet and in the Turning Basin.  A silver spoon will work for all of these fish.  The bottom fishing around the bridges will produce plenty of sheepshead, sand perch, black drum and snapper.  A small live shrimp will work great on these fish.  In the surf you can look for whiting, croakers, spanish mackerel, bluefish and a few pompano.  Fresh dead shrimp will work for most and a piece of clam or a sand flea will work for the

pompano.

Sebastian Inlet Report

02-18-13 MONDAY: SHEEPSHEAD, BLACK DRUM, BLUES, JACKS, REDS, SPANISH MACKEREL AND SHARKS 

It's another cool morning out on the jetties. Winds are blowing out of the East-Southeast at 12 mph with gusts to 17. There is a moderate chop on the water. The water temperature has dropped in to the mid 60's which has turned the bite on. Tommy Turowski of the Sebastian Inlet Bait and Tackle Shop reported that a lot of Sheepshead and Black Drum were landed, big Reds, Snook, Blues, Jacks and a few Spanish Mackerel were landed on the incoming tides. Reds and Blues were hitting this morning on the outgoing tides. Sharks have been thick. 

Our photo today features inlet regular Sonny Advincula of Kissimmee. Sonny landed 11 Sheepshead on using sand fleas. He landed the biggest Lookdown we've ever seen using shrimp! Sonny was going to take his Lookdown to Whitey's Bait and Tackle on the way home to have it weighed and measured to see if it was a record contender.

From Dave Sebastian Beach

   I've been fishing hard the past few weeks and my fatigue level is at it's highest peak as I write this report. There has been a really good bite at the inlet lately. Trout, bluefish, jacks, spanish mackerel, bull reds and a handful of keeper snook for a few very persistent anglers. However, the strongest bite continues to be with the sheepshead on the north jetty. They have been thick and aggressive on both tides and along the entire length of the jetty, with the largest concentration coming from the end. Sand fleas and shrimp either live or dead are the top producers for the striped bandits right now. As for myself, well, despite the consistent and predictable action during the daylight hours the nights have been very slow for the most part and I decided to try and find out why. I had a hunch that some toothy critters had stopped by for a bite and I wanted to see if my hunch was correct. IT WAS. Yes the sharks have been thick at night, on the order of between eight and ten hookups on the first half of the out going tide. If you want to connect with a shark, the best bait right now is fresh or live bluefish by a mile but ladyfish is a close second. Be prepared with a fifty pound outfit and plenty of line, at least 300 yards, to handle the long runs these brutes are capable of. Wire leaders are an obvious necessity given the sharks mouth full of knives, and should be at least three feet long. You can use store bought rigs if you wish, though I prefer to make my own. No need to worry about using any weight as the sharks tend to pick up the bait faster if it's presented mid-way in the water column. You can achieve this by pitching your bait out into the channel and allowing the tide to carry it out. Once the current has it, come tight and hold on, it should suspend just fine without a float a few feet down. My photo's this week are of a large Black Tip Shark released at the jetty an a 300 lb class Bull Shark, I beached Until next time, good fishing.     

From Whites Tackle - Ft Pierce

                                                               Photo courtesy Of Rocky /Balls Deep Fishing Team

The inshore fishing has been good with trout, flounder, and redfish along the west bank north of the power lines in the deeper water along the docks. The fish have been caught with DOA soft plastics and gulp baits. The snook fishing has been good in the inlet on feathers, and plugs.

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