05-25-12 FRIDAY: SPANISH MACKEREL, SPOTS, ATLANTIC SPADEFISH, SHEEPSHEAD, BLUES, SEA TROUT, FLOUNDER AND SNOOK
Winds are blowing out of the North-Northeast at 6 mph and there is a moderate chop on the water this morning. It's a beautiful morning!
Fishing has picked up in the past few days which is great news for all of our shore based anglers. The best daytime action on the north jetty has mainly consisted of Spanish Mackerel. A lot of greenies (menhaden) are schooling around the jetties attracting the spotted beauties; although most of the greenies have been small and difficult to net. The catches also include Sheepshead, Spots, Atlantic Spadefish, large and small Jacks, and Blues. On the flats you can still find Sea Trout and a few Flounder. We are seeing a lot of Snook activity in the evenings. We have one more week of Snook season before it closes until September 1st.
We received an update from Nam Bui of Orlando who fished the north jetty last night with his buddy Thang Nguyen. Nam reported Snook were everywhere and a few were in the slot. Nam's first Snook of the night was a potential keeper but got it slammed by a Shark that broke his line, taking his lure and the Snook with it! Nam was using windcheaters for all his catches. The 37" Snook in our first photo today was landed and released by Nam, when it was revived and started to swim away, it got eaten by a Shark as well! Thang Nguyen hooked up with a good sized Snook but it wrapped itself up in the rocks and broke off. Nam then caught a real nice 32" Snook that made up for the earlier losses.
Photo two is of Frank Mohamed of Kissimmee who was fishing the north jetty when he hooked up with his big Jack using live shrimp. This was one of two that Frank landed that morning.
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