Activity is picking up along our local beaches . The permit and pompano showed today in some pretty good numbers but unfortunately when the numbers increase so do the numbers of sharks . Randy had the hot hand as he landed two of the three permit he had hooked up and I also had one on but the hook pulled right after its initial run . Another friend of ours that was just fishing south of where we set up also landed a permit . If you have never hooked one of these exciting game fish from the surf, now is the time to get up on the sand . We hooked two on rigs fished with plain Fishbites . One with Yellow Crab and the other with Pink/Flesh crab . The other two bit on EZFlea Fishbite tipped with a live sandflea . Four permit hook ups in the space of sixty minutes is some pretty good fishing . When the permit shut off I caught a keeper pompano and released three or four more . The bites picked up as we neared the high tide mark and that’s when the sharks showed up . I managed one more keeper but had to get to the position of only using two rods as the sharks were on your fish immediately. After getting bit off another six or seven times we packed it up . The only reason we stayed for that many shark offs was the hope was for this pack to back off as the pompano were sitting right in front of us and the strikes were instantaneous. We also managed to land ladyfish, whiting , and croaker . Remember these fish are coming from the north so don’t because to try some of the beaches up towards Fort Pierce and Vero . There’s plenty of mullet north of us that are on the way and look for the pompano bite to keep increasing on a daily basis . The bulk of our bites came from the 40 to 60 yard mark today . Stagger your rods as far as distance to locate the area that the permit and pompano are holding . Things are heating up so get your Fishbites, sandflea rake, the fleas were thick today, and pick a beach and give it a shot . Good luck this week and catch em up . Snook Nook is stocked up with all of the Fishbites baits so stop in and stock up .
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