Fishing Report
July 1 2008
Tarpon are on the beaches of Hutchinson and Jupiter Islands and in the St. Lucie and Indian River Lagoon and have provided good early morning action when they show. When they don’t roll on the water’s surface to provide a target then we switch gears and have been fishing docks, bridges, holes, creek mouths and other structure for catch and release snook action. Most snook we are catching now are big and every fish doesn’t make it to the boat while fishing, especially when fishing around docks. We are very careful with these fish and try to keep them in the water as much as possible during the release. DOA shrimp, DOA Terror Eyez, DOA Cal shad tails, DOA Jerk baits and DOA Baitbuster are all catching fish. Capt. Ray and I were talking today about the DOA BFL and that one of its great attributes is that it can be worked so slowly. They are introducing 2 smaller sizes which I am very excited about to say the least- both of which will be absolutely deadly during the Fall mullet run. As well as being deadly on tarpon…Now!
Fly fishing for snook at night on the dock lights and bridges has been excellent. Fish are covering up the lighted water at night and there are more fish that we don’t see in the shadow lines and they are usually the bigger fish. Bigger fish are also on the bridges and sea walls but the water level has been too low to fish a lot of the walls that we like to fish.
The daytime fly bite for little tunny has been relatively consistent with various other smaller specie getting into the mix including mackerel, blue fish, blue runners and jacks which aren’t always on the small side. Speaking of which we are seeing the occasional school of jacks on the beach while tarpon fishing but the schools are small and the fish get spooky as the day wears on so a subsurface pilchard pattern has been more effective than a surface popper.
A variety of specie are hanging around the channel markers in the IRL and while we have caught some tripletail we have not caught any big ones as of yet. We might at times be more successful with live shrimp for the trips but we just throw the DOA shrimp. Its a confidence bait and I know it works on the bigger fish. It’s just a matter of the right drift and right presentation and they will eat it.
Most of the Mahi on the reef lines are scattered and while we can bring them in with white bait we have not seen any big fish come into our chum line recently. Summer sailfish are out there in good numbers and they seem to be hitting the down baits as opposed to the livies on top, at least that is the trend that I have seen recently while live baiting. We have seen and caught some summer cobia in the last few weeks. The last one we boated came off the track of a massive leather back turtle- very cool! There also seems to be a fare amount Amber Jacks biting high in the water column and I am told that could be the result of a thermo cline near the ocean floor. Whatever the reason it’s nice to hook these fish away from structure- any advantage that we can get on battling those brutes we’ll take!
Afternoons have been hot but the morning fishing has been red hot too and the night bite is on. Have fun, good fishing to you and yours and be safe out there.
Capt. Duber Winters
Green Water Charters
772-631-1023
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