From Todd &Trey @ Juno Bait -Juno Beach

INSHORE-  Super hot weather has the inshore fishing just about shut down these days.  Lowlight periods of the day and night will produce some mangrove snapper on small live pilchards and shrimp.  Sandperch will be mixed in with the snapper and are biting shrimp.  The mangroves and perch are less bothered by the warmer temps than some species, but even they will bite best during lowlight.  Catch and release snook fishing has been fair to good inshore.  While a lot of the snook are pushed out towards the inlets, a few big resident fish remain inshore around seawalls and boat docks.  Docklights will also hold a good number of snook in the 18-24" range.  Water has been very clear this week so try fishing outgoing tide for best luck.  Not much else to report on the inshore side of things.

SURF/PIER-  Catch and release snook fishing was very good this week along the beach, on the Juno Beach Pier, and in Jupiter Inlet.  The snook are super dialed in on live croakers right now; especially the larger fish.  Smaller baits pilchards, greenies, and sardines will also work for the snook; but don't seem to draw the same absolutely devastating blows that croakers do.  Early morning along the beach has been good for snook and jacks around glass minnow pods.  A crappie jig, small paddletail, or Yo-Zuri Pin's minnow will be a good choice when fishing around the minnow pods.  Best action will be the first hour or so as the sun comes up.  Tarpon reports slowed a bit along the beach this week, but reports of some big cruising jacks continued to come in.  Croaker and some big sandperch are biting shrimp (especially small live or pieces of fresh ones) well in the first trough.  A few mangrove snapper are being caught at the Pier and Jupiter Inlet early in the morning.                         

From Whites Tackle - Ft Pierce / Stuart

Inshore, Snook are still prevalent around docks and mangrove shorelines, and areas where there’s current flowing keep the water temps down and the fish active. Redfish continue to be caught along shoreline edges and mangroves on soft plastics and flies such as sliders and Clouser Minnows. Along the beaches, there’s been plenty of Spanish Mackerel feeding on glass minnows, and Snook are getting more and more plentiful as well. There doesn’t seem to be many big concentrations of bait, so you’ll have to do a fair amount of blind casting to score. Your best bets are bucktail jigs, spoons, and DOA CAL jigs, or flies such as the Polar Fibre Minnow or Clouser Minnows. Nearshore, there have been quite a few Kingfish in close, as well as some Tarpon, mostly feeding on Pilchards and greenies. 

Sebastian Inlet Report

                             

LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER ARE HERE…

Sarah at the Sebastian Inlet Bait & Tackle Shop tells us the “lazy hazy days of summer are upon us…”  The days of large shrimp are few and far between so now is a good time to hone your plugging skills as Bonita, Jacks, Blue Runners and Spanish Mackerel are a plenty.  Use your topwater lures like bombers, windcheaters, poppers or use small bucktails, spoons and the ever-popular Gotcha lure.  You can use a Sabiki rig to catch bait fish, and fish for Snappers under the catwalks.  Try your luck around the T-dock too.  

WHERE THE FISH ARE HIDING IN THE SURF

Beach Fishing With Paul Sperco Palm Beach/Martin County Area

I always enjoy posting the surf reports and talking about the great diversity of species, tackle, techniques ,baits, and locations to fish along our beautiful beaches. On this post I want to touch on a topic that I always bring up at my seminars and like to include in the handouts that I provide for the attendees. I think it is safe to say that one of the main reasons that people visit, vacation, and relocate to our area is the weather. Warm temperatures and abundant sunshine allows us to pursue outdoor activities on a year round basis. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. The bright, beautiful sunshine factor is the common denominator that makes our area paradise but it can also cause skin cancer and whether you are just visiting for the weekend or have lived here for your entire life you should take preventive measures like wearing sunglasses, UPF rated clothing, hats , sunbuffs, and most importantly using sunscreen. Regularly scheduled visits to the Dermatologist for a skin check only takes 15 minutes and can keep you informed about any sun damage. I want to share my personal experience from the last two weeks to let all of you know how important it is. I did my annual skin check two weeks ago at my Doctors office and he discovered a malignant melanoma growth on a unexposed area of my thigh. All of the exposed areas, face, arms , legs, and neck had no issues. It was explained to me that my growth probably began years ago when I was a kid and turned into this situation very recently. All of us "older" folks really didn't have the products and clothing that help prevent these issues now and technology that we use on our kids and grandkids today has certainly cut down on this problem. I spent six hours in the hospital yesterday where the two surgeons removed the growth and took a lymph node out to analyze to make sure it has not spread. As with any problem like this, early detection is the key and I am certainly expecting a clean bill of health when the biopsy comes back. I don't know anyone that I have spoken to that has not had or known someone that has not had some type of procedure done to take care of a skin cancer issue. If I had not gone for my annual check up I never would have known. I will tell you my annual check up will become a semi annual starting now. I will be on the sideline for a short time so if anyone has some surf reports, good or bad , please feel free to send them to me and I will be happy to get your current info up. This is the hottest and strongest sun time of the year so put that sunscreen on and wear those protective clothes to take advantage of our great summertime surf action. Good luck and catch em up

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Bumps, short strikes, and SERIOUS Snook talk!