Captain Bob Bushholz
Jensen Beach, Florida
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ALL YEAR LONG!!!!' | | Fishing Report for
January 1st, 2003
"Snook and Drums"
Fishing remains strong considering we haven't targeted the grass flats for
almost two months. Area bridges have been the main focus with mangrove
snapper, snook, jacks and plenty of black drum (30 last week) running 4-8
lbs. Trollrites with live or frozen shrimp on 12 lb. test works great.
Several sheephead, a mixed batch of grouper, snapper and yes, a tripletail,
have been caught on area channel markers. Joe Hoy from Englewood, Florida
caught his first tripletail that weighed in at 6.6 lbs. which brought the
total for Catch 22 to 77 for the year.
Farther south, the "pompano brigade" continues jigging on the quarter bridge
bouncing nylure jigs along the bottom. I guess they are catching a few
pomps, but I haven't seen much action the last four times I ran down there on
my bike. Most of the action seems to be small jacks, blue runners and
ladyfish on the South side with scattered sheephead on the North.
Last week we did catch a few pomps in the inlet area in the 2-4 lb. range,
but mostly jacks. Skimmer jigs like a Gulfstream redfish or shrimp jigs
tipped with a small piece of shrimp produce the best results. There are a
few "secret" spots holding nice mangrove snapper and grouper near the inlet.
This is the time of year to anchor up in rocky areas in the inlet near slack
tide for sheephead. Dead high tide is best, but both tides produce. I use
small 1/0 ¼ ounce trollrites tipped with a small piece of shrimp. Each tide
has about an hour to fish while the current is slow. A catch of 20-30
sheephead on each tide is a definite possibility, but don't be greedy, keep
only what you can eat.
Haven't gone after mackerel this week with choppy conditions outside the
rocks, but I'm sure they are stacked up. In the St. Lucie River, around
Hell's Gate, there's plenty of action on the high outgoing tide.
Remember, January 1st trout season re-opens. Don't be surprised to run into
schools of pompano or scattered flounder near drop-offs. DOA's rootbeer and
glo shrimp are hard to beat while drifting a few live shrimp on bobbers.
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