Scouting Around Palm Beach/Martin County Area

INSHORE

The beaches in the Jensen area are still a bit lackluster for fishing right now.

The St. Lucie and the Indian River, however, are still firing.

Anglers using live shrimp on quarter-ounce jigs are cleaning up!

Pompano, sheepshead, tripletail, bluefish and Spanish mackerel are all being caught around the docks, seawalls and channel markers.

The power poles spanning the river have also been good.

The redfish bite is still excellent. Though there haven’t been as many big ones the last week, there are still plenty of slot size fish being caught.

At the Boynton Inlet anglers have been catching pompano.

Anglers fishing the Lantana Bridge are reporting catching good-size croaker as well as pompano and sheepshead.

The pompano are being taken on live sand fleas and peeled shrimp and the sheepshead are being caught using clam strips.

 LAKE OKEECHOBEE:

Out on the lake the bass bite is still excellent and best using live shiners.

If going with artificial, however, Rat-L-Traps and Zoom Super Flukes are working well.

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Beach Fishing With Paul Sperco Palm Beach/Martin County Area

Its 430 Thanksgiving morning and I am starting to put my gear together to head out and hopefully find some conditions that will prompt me to take my rods off of the truck. I spent yesterday morning looking for that opportunity and it did not happen. Dirty off colored water was spread out from the south end of Hutchinson Island to all the way up past Fort Piece Inlet to the Vero Beach area. I started at Tiger Shores beach and looked at Bryn Mawr, Bob Graham, County Line, Normandy, Middle Cove, Blue Heron, South Beach, Porpoise, Navy Seal, Avalon, and finally stopped my drive at Round Island State Park, where I ran into local regular Barry Richards, who was making this northward drive just like I was. The water color on the beaches in the Fort Pierce area were somewhat better than the all of the areas south of Fort Pierce Inlet but still left alot to be desired. I never wet a line but I did receive a text from Barry who had 2 shark bite offs and he finally quit fishing at Round Island when the weeds took over. On an encouraging note , it looked like the water was starting to clean up on South Hutchinson Island yesterday afternoon as I kept looking at the webcam shots as the afternoon wore on. Hopefully a couple of tide changes and the predicted wind shift to the south and southwest will improve our chances. The waders and folks fishing the river in their boats are catching trout, redfish, snook, ladyfish , jacks ,and pompano so if these conditions persist thats always an alternative. The local bridges are producing ladyfish, bluefish, jacks and some pompano also. Either way I hope everyone has a safe and healthy Thanksgiving . Good luck this weekend and catch em up.

Scouting Around Sebastian

 REDS, BLACK DRUM, SNOOK, POMPANO, SPANISH MACKEREL, BLUES, TROUT, SHEEPSHEAD AND MORE! 

We have a beautiful morning at the inlet. Winds are blowing out of the North-northeast at 8mph, gusting to 10 and there is a moderate chop on the water. The forecast is for a mostly sunny day today with showers and thunderstorms predicted for Thursday and Friday. A cold front is predicted to move in over the weekend which could dry things up and give the boaters an opportunity to get off the dock. Always check the NOAA forecast prior to boating.
  We're seeing some nice catches in the Lagoon including good sized Spanish Mackerel, Pompano, Bluefish, Big Jacks, Reds, Snook, Sheepshead, Black Drum and Trout. Most of those species can be landed off both jetties the T-Dock, beaches, inlet rocks and shoreline as well. Fishing is at its peak this time of year, get out and wet a line!

Beach Fishing With Paul Sperco Palm Beach/Martin County Area

I hope everyone who has been waiting for conditions to improve took advantage of the light west winds, sunny skies, and reduced wave heights that we had along our beaches yesterday. The water color was not the best along south Hutchinson Island at beaches like Tiger Shores, Bob Graham, Stuart, and Santa Lucea and the beast combination of small surf and cleaner water seemed to be north of the Fort Pierce Inlet. I received a call Saturday night about the clean green water in that area and headed that way in the dark yesterday morning. My first stop was the beach access adjacent to the Navy Seal Museum in Fort Pierce and conditions looked great. I set my pompano rods out but weedy conditions within the first half an hour chased me from that spot. I moved a little further north on A1A to Round Island Park and found that water very clean and no weeds. I set up on the south end of that area feeling confident that the pompano were going to provide some great action. 

After 20 minutes simultaneous hits on two rods turned out to be rod benders as '' the men in the gray suits'' (blacktip sharks) bit off both of my rigs. Unfortunately for those of us that were fishing that area, these bites continued on almost every cast and one by one the pompano seekers left the beach. I will say the show that these great game fish was spectacular and if you have never hooked a spinner or blacktip from the beach they are spectacular. They jump, leap, and twist as they go airborne and anyone who likes to target these sharks can find them right now at that location. Gear up your tackle because 25-pound pompano leaders rigged with number 1 circle hooks are no match. Use gear and tackle that are heavy enough to get them to the beach in a reasonable amount of time so you can release them to swim away without any chance of damage to the fish. The large concentration of the sharks usually signals conditions and water temperature that are favorable for schools of mackerel and pompano to be in the same area but yesterday if you were a spanish mackerel, or a pompano, you would not have stood a chance the unbelievable numbers of these sharks would have chased you from that beach. The winds are forecast to ramp up on Monday and Tuesday this week, but starting Wednesday and into Thanksgiving weekend things look good. It might get a little damp but the surf should be ok to wet a line. I will be fishing Wednesday and Thursday and will post the results and beach conditions those evenings. Have a great Thanksgiving and try to get out and catch a fish. Good luck and catch em up.

From Capt. Charlie @ Fishing Center - Ft Pierce

Beautiful fall weather along the Treasure Coast has been a welcome change from the heat of summer. Mild temperatures and sunny days make for fun fishing adventures. Water temperatures are in the mid to high seventies and the fish have been biting most days. The water in Fort Pierce has been clearing up gradually in spite of Taylor Creeks draining into the river. Enjoy the change of seasons and get out fishing soon!

Redfish have been around the inlet, docks and mangroves lately. The larger fish have been in the inlet. Snook fishing at night remains good for anglers. Trout have been hanging on grass flats north of Fort Pierce. Try the trusty DOA shrimp for best artificial results. Snapper and sheepshead are under docks north and south of Fort Pierce. Croakers have been in deeper water and are nice sized. Pompano are moving into the area and it should be a good season for the pompano fishermen. November should prove to be an awesome month to fish!

Sebastian Inlet Report

                                 
11-20-17 MONDAY: SPANISH MACKEREL, POMPANO, REDS, SNOOK, BLACK DRUM, BLUES AND JACKS 

The wind is back and so is the bite. We have Northeast winds blowing at 17 mph, gusting to 21 and the water is choppy. Over the weekend the wind settled down but the bite turned off. We received a couple of updates from inlet regulars who reported the slow bite. Tiffany Kelley of Ocoee was on the north jetty Saturday from 6:00 a.m until 2:00 when they went over to the T-Dock and it was slow there as well. She saw a few Pompano and Jacks, Snook were hit or miss. There was a 30 minute flurry of activity when a school of Reds came through and the same with Black Drum, just a short window and they were gone. Tiffany said it was such a beautiful day; they still had a great time! 
   We have heard from a few folks who've been fishing the Indian River Lagoon and have had success with good sized Pompano, Spanish Mackerel and Bluefish! 
   Tony Skinner and his son of Orlando came over to fish the inlet and although the wind and spray were gnarly, they toughed it out, took about and hour to net some bait south of the inlet and they finally got to fish. They fished the catwalk and about an hour after sunset, Tony landed a short Snook that was returned. A fat little mojarra made a nice meal for the 30" slot Snook in our first photo. 
Al Rodriguez is featured in our second photo today. Al landed this huge C/R Red from the north jetty. 
Photo three features Allyn Toth with her very first Bluefish she landed in the IRL on a Vudu mullet.