Jensen Beach Fishing Report 10-17-08

FISHING 10/12/08


Tuna, Tuna the bite is on, small feathers tied in a chain rig, Squid, Bally-hoo, the bait list is long. Trolled baits or casting baits these fish are hungry.
The bite starts at your first weed patch some where between 90' and 500' north, south or east it is tuna time. Dolphin and more Dolphin, the cool thing about this is they are all together. Real nice Dolphin in the 15 to 30lb class. Pesky Sails also so bring some extra bait, you will use it. Ninety to five hundred is quite a spread but that is as the reports came in,did I forget to mention the forty six pound Wahoo in sixty feet, a trolled bally on a down line.
Pompano on the beach, long cast, short cast it just depended on the day. One angler I told to long cast caught them when he was bringing in his line to check his bait, he then started using that 14 rod like a cane pole, well he found them and he caught them. One hour they were up close and the next out far, but they were catching not just fishing. Lots of fleas on the beach, I guess that should be our first clue. Plenty of Blues and Jacks for the early anglers, not much on the Snook and Tarpon. This week it seemed as the day move on so did the wind, cloudy water just chased the anglers away, not the fish.
It was from Nettles island south for the Trout, east side of the river for most of the week. Just enough wind to chop up the west side and keep it in it's turbid state. Most fish were slot size I will say it again, if you are going to take one home slot fish are the best for table fare. Live shrimp, small jerk baits kept their attention and the Jacks and Blue fish love them also. No Flounder reported this week but the Reds made a very strong show on the Sail Fish flats. Red fish of slot size so dinner was covered. The bridges continue with the Black Drum action, short Snook in the day hours, big Snook after sun down and it was that way at all bridges. For me the surprise was the Snook at the Roosevelt Bridge even with an assault by the Army Corp did not stop them.
Till next week a little more courtesy at the Jensen Causeway would make fishing a lot better for everyone.

HAY GANG COULD I GETSOMETHING ABOUT A DINNER FOR THE "RIVER KEEPER PROGRAM IN THE PAPER??????????

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3595 NE Indian River Drive
Jensen Beach, FL
(Just South of the Jensen Causeway)
(772)-334-2145
(Since 1949)
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