Sebastian Inlet Report

11-17-14 MONDAY: SPANISH MACKEREL, JACKS, BLUES, SNOOK, REDS, SNAPPER, SHEEPSHEAD AND FLOUNDER 

The wind picked up this morning; it's blowing out of the South-Southwest at 17 mph, gusting to 21. There is a small craft advisory in effect through Wednesday morning. A front is moving in, bringing rain and temperatures will start to fall tonight bringing us a cool day tomorrow. 

Tommy Turowski at the Sebastian Inlet Bait and Tackle Shop reported that over the weekend, Saturday was a very good day with lots of different species being landed. Black Drum, Spanish Mackerel, Snook, Reds, Snapper, Jacks, Blues and Flounder and a couple of Sheepshead and Spadefish were active. Sunday the bite slowed a little. Tommy reported that the bait situation is sketchy, finger mullet, mojarra and greenies are scarce, but this is still one of the better November runs he's seen in some time. This morning, Spanish Mackerel are hitting Gotcha lures and spoons. 
Mike Ricciardi of Vero Beach made it back to the north jetty on Friday and reported 6 - 7 Black Drum came over the rails, most were in the 15" - 20" range and he was lucky enough to land one of them. Mike White of Sebastian landed the largest during his time there, a nice 25" that came over the rails early in the morning. There were lots of Spanish Mackerel in play and Mike added six of those to his cooler. Jacks in the 4 - 5 lb. range were everywhere, he believes about 200 came over the rails between 7:00 - 10:00. A few large Atlantic Spadefish were landed, but no Snook or Reds were caught. The tide started turning from outgoing to incoming around 10:00 and all the Snook fishermen were getting ready as the bite has been good during the first hour of incoming.
Our first photo features Justin Foster of Satellite Beach with a nice, thick Flounder he landed while fishing the T-Dock. Justin landed several C/R small Lane, Mutton and Mangrove Snapper, a small C/R black grouper along with the Flounder. Justin saw one other Flounder landed during his time on the T-Dock. 
Kelly Vila of Kissimmee is featured in our second photo. Kelly was fishing the inlet  when she hooked up with this slot Redfish. 

Dave Simpson of Orlando is featured in our third and final photo today. Dave landed this real pretty 36" C/R Snook off the north jetty. The Snook was released unharmed after the photo.