It’s Saturday evening and I just finished filleting my catch from today . It won’t go down in my log as a “filled the cooler up” day but the catch was definitely a bit different . I only had a short window to fish this morning and fished from about 730 to about 930 . All in all I managed to catch around 15 fish , keeping 10 , but the 10 I kept will make for a great dinner . The first bite was an 11 inch mangrove snapper that I released to fatten up a bit but the second fish that nearly tore my little 7 foot rod out of my hand turned out to be a 13 1/2 inch mangrove . I caught a third mangrove that was barely 10 inches and released him to get a bit bigger .The Threadfins, aka “Clearnoses then made an appearance and put 5 of them in the cooler . Some croaker rounded out the cooler fish and I released a few sand perch and a small whiting . The Chartreuse/ Flesh/ Shine Shrimp Fishbites was the ticket today tipped with a small piece of shrimp . All of my bites came within 5 yards of the shore break and the key is finding a beach with a defined drop off in that first trough . A couple of my friends caught and released some snook this morning that they caught on live croakers .Off colored water with some slime weed has been the norm this week in the Jensen Beach area but these fish today didn’t seem to mind . If you have never eaten these threadfins you are definitely missing out . They are delicious.I use the pompano 11 inch rule on them even though they are unregulated as that size will produce two nice fillets . High tide tomorrow is around 8 am so prime time will be from 7 to 10 am . Hope everyone has a great Sunday, Good luck and catch em up .
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