I spoke with several different fishing piers along Florida's North East coast today. At Jacksonville Beach Pier, things are a little slow, but you can catch bluefish and whiting by fishing fresh dead shrimp on the bottom. At St. Johns Co. Ocean Pier, one of there patrons just caught a very large black drum. Things have been slow but the water is gorgeous and there is plenty of bait around, so the fishing should pick up on the out going tide this afternoon. Fishing the trough on the west side of the white building, should produce good results. I also spoke with Chuck at Flagler Beach Ocean Pier Bait & Tackle. Chuck tells me that the fishing is good at the pier with pompano and whiting producing the most action. Sand flees are the best bait but dead shrimp and the packaged "fish bait" they sell are also producing fish. A few bluefish are also being taken on mullet, and there are some weakfish being caught, but most are under sized. In the inlet, there are a lot of speckled trout being taken on live select shrimp. For more information contact;
Jacksonville Beach Pier
904-241-1515
503 1st St N
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
www.jacksonvillebeachpier.com
St. Johns Co. Ocean Pier
904-461-0119
350 A1a Beach Blvd
St. Augustine, FL 32080
Flagler Beach Ocean Pier Bait & Tackle
386-439-2200
105 N 2nd St
Flagler Beach, FL 32136
