Captain Bob Bushholz
Jensen Beach, Florida
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ALL YEAR LONG!!!!' | | Fishing Report for
March 31st, 2003
"North vs South"
On a scale from 1
to 10, fishing south of the Stuart Causeway has gone from a
10 to a 0 within a week. Three factors have contributed to our water's
demise. (1) Strong north winds on Monday stirred up the ICW, (2) water
releases from the spillways making our water look like old Maxwell House
coffee and (3) bright green slimy grass, so thick in the inlet it was
virtually impossible to fish. It may be an algae bloom or that foreign
algae
everyone's talking about that's invading our waterways, but something
really
needs to be done. I sure hope Riverkeepers stays on top of this one.
This morning I decided to fish north of the Stuart Causeway to the Power
Plant where the water is 100% better. A few trout made an appearance right
off the bat along with jacks to 5 lbs. On the markers, four tripletail to
12
lbs., a 5 lb. gag grouper and more jacks in the 5-lb. range couldn't wait
to
take the bait. Needless to say, I'm probably fishing north most of the
month
of April.
Prior to Monday, we caught 18 snook with 6 in the slot taken from bridges
and
the St. Lucie Inlet. Outside the rocks, nice sheepshead to 4 lbs. and
scattered schools of large jack crevalles to 25 lbs. provided some great
rod-pulling action. The black drum action since January has been fast and
furious, with too many to count in the 12 lbs. and under range. There's
been
great ladyfish action in the Sailfish flats with scattered pompano
skipping
in the area until Monday, March 24 when the water quality went sour. My
advice for a while is to head north. Maybe in a few weeks the water will
clean up and the big tarpon will magically appear. Remember, even a bad
day fishing (even though there's no such thing as a "bad" day fishing) is
better than the best day working. (I guess I can consider myself lucky
since
fishing is my "work"!)
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