Beach Fishing With Paul Sperco Palm Beach/Martin County Area

 Clean water and no weeds usually points to excellent surf fishing opportunities and today was just that. After having to reschedule a charter for today I returned to Stuart Beach and fished by myself and the croaker, whiting, majorra, palometta, and snook were all in attendance. Orange Clam and Pink Shrimp Fishbites were the only baits I used as the bite started on these baits when I got there and I left them biting. I did not live line any croaker but the snook were swimming up and down the beach the entire two hours I was there. When you have the amount of croaker in one area like today, anyone who wants to play catch-and-release with the snook should get continual runoffs.Tiger Shores and Stuart Beaches have the near shore trough at 5 to 15 yards from the edge and a secondary bar at 15 to 25 yards off of the beach. Most of the bigger croakers and whiting were all in the deeper trough and a cast to this distance provided strikes as soon as the bait hit the bottom. Conditions look pretty good for the rest of the week and as long the nice water stays with us the action should continue. 

Sebastian Inlet Report

                                     
It is going to more of the same this week at the Inlet with the summer heat and scattered afternoon thunderstorms.  South to Southwest winds blowing at 14mph, check our webcam for current conditions, and the rain has made the water a bit murky.  Fishing off the north jetty has been pretty fair with some big Jacks biting and smaller Mangrove Snapper.  Someone took home a big barracuda yesterday, and the shrimp and pilchards have been good bait, reports Tommy Turowski. 

ALMOST Pulled in... UNSTOPPABLE Fish (Juno Pier Snook Fishing)

Man-Sized Monster Caught Fishing From Beach

From Todd &Trey @ Juno Bait -Juno Beach

INSHORE:  Catch and release snook fishing remains the best bet inshore right now.  Look for the snook to be most active during lowlight periods of the day and at night.  Look for most snook bites to be best on outgoing tide.  Mangrove snapper are around in fair numbers.  Sand perch are  biting well  in the ICW.  Small pieces of shrimp is a solid bet for the sand perch.                          

SURF/PIER:  Snook fishing remains fair to good along the beach; especially early in the morning and late in the afternoon.  The night bite has also been good for the snook along the beach.  Spoolteks and large swim baits have been working well at night, while small paddle tails and jigs have been better during the day.  Hard to beat a live croaker though anytime of the day.  A few tarpon have been pushing north along local beaches, and reports have a good number of tarpon feeding along the beaches up to the north of us.  Croakers, and sand perch are biting pieces of shrimp in the first trough.  Snook bite in Jupiter Inlet improved this week.    The Juno Beach Pier has also been producing a fair number of mangrove snapper early in the morning.  Cut sardines and live shrimp are a good choice for the snapper.

Beach Fishing With Paul Sperco Palm Beach/Martin County Area

 

The surf bite this week has been somewhat slow in our immediate area; it seemed the whiting and croaker just wouldn't hang in the trough long enough to put a good catch together. The early morning was the time to be in position as the majority of the fish that were taken were all caught as the sun came up. Weeds and some off-colored water at beaches like Dollmans Beachside, Walton Rocks, and Middle Cove made catches pretty difficult to put together. Although the water was pretty nice at Stuart, Tiger Shores, and Santa Lucea, the bite was short lived. Randy and I fished at all of the mentioned beach accesses during the week but after we would put 10 to 15 whiting and croaker in the cooler the action stopped. The best fishing after the sun got up was the catch-and-release snook bite. A live croaker did not last more than 10 minutes after live-lining them in the near shore trough. After we get past the full moon tomorrow, I expect the bite to bounce back after a very inconsistent week. Another factor that hampered fishing the last few days was the amount of weeds that moved into the edge of the surf right after the tide hit the high mark and started to fall. This is normally the best time to put a good catch together and with the high tide times from 8:30 to 10 am from now through Monday, plan your trips around those hours. Fishbites and frozen shrimp will be the baits of choice and there are reports of some live shrimp starting to show up at a few locations. Good luck this week with improving conditions and with the possibility of fresh shrimp becoming available again, fishing should improve.

From The Crew @ Whites Tackle - Ft Pierce / Stuart

Inshore yesterday the trout bite has been good with to the north on soft baits with a few nice fish on top water around first light. The beach fishing has been good to the south around the power plant with some nice snook and tarpon.