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Captain Bob Bushholz
Jensen Beach, Florida
(772) 225-6436
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Fort Pierce:
The Shrimp Spot
300 U.S. 1
(772) 461-1115
Jensen Beach:
Snook Nook
3595 N.E. Indian River Drive
(772) 334-2145
Stuart:
Gordo's Bait & Tackle
494 S.E. Monterey Road
(772) 220-0450
Port Salerno:
Mitchell's Bait and Tackle
4480 S.E. St. Lucie Blvd.
(772) 287-0486
Hobe Sound Bait & Tackle
9014 S.E. Bridge Road
(772) 546-1760
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Fishing Report for November 26th, 2002
"Great Water Spells Excellent
Fishing"
Water conditions remain fantastic, which translates into great fishing. For
the past few weeks the St. Lucie River has tints of green all the way up to
the 10-cent bridge. Salinity levels that were almost non-existent are
quickly bringing with it fish that vacated the area by late June. This
"clean water" should stay here (hopefully) until next June. If we could just
get the "powers that be" to recognize that Mother Nature takes good care of
the inland waterways and if left to her own devices, could probably maintain
excellent conditions all year long.
The trout bite has remained strong up and down the Indian River. The big
question is "how do the trout know the season is closed?". One trip during
the past week resulted in releases of 17 trout up to 4 lbs., fishing the west
side near Walton Road. Another trip, with a private one-person fare,
produced 8 nice trout released fishing the east side near the bird platforms
just south of the Power Plant. Both DOA's root beer and glo shrimp were
used, working them slowly in the grass on 6 lb. test with no leader. There's
nothing like hooking up a good fish on light tackle.
I've still done a bit of searching for the pompano. Only a half-hour or so
in the grass flats, spoil islands and in the Hell's Gate area. So far I
haven't spotted any serious concentration, but I've heard several reports
about pompano in the Sailfish Point area, Power Plant and the "quarter
bridge". Many of the pompano being caught from the bridges are small, but
the big guys should be arriving shortly. By December (next week), I expect
the action to heat up and stay hot until March.
Snook have been deep near area bridges and seem to be attracted to live baits
on the bottom and jigs like the Red Tail Hawks and Gulfstream Flair Hawks.
Make sure you feel the bottom and you're in the right zone. Ft. Pierce Inlet
has been holding some nice snook, while the shallower St. Lucie Inlet has
been a little slow for these fish.
Haven't made it to Peck's Lake lately since the surf conditions have been
pretty nasty, but as soon as it flattens out, you can expect to see the Catch
22 doing some serious surf fishing. There's been some scattered mackerel in
the Inlet area and rivers, but nothing to brag about. Still plenty of
mangrove snapper and black drum around area bridges, with sheephead starting
to show up nicely. During the winter months aboard Catch 22, we spend time
catching large numbers of sheephead right in the St. Lucie Inlet. In case
you didn't know, sheephead make great table fare (pure white and flaky), but
á&RÐPOST http://www.redhe fork and believe me, you'd rather have a 15-16
inch fish since they have a huge stomach to fillet around, but are well worth
the effort. Keep the tackle light and fish slack tide with 6-lb. test, ¼
oz., 1/0 trollrite and a small piece of shrimp on the tip. It's not unusual
during the winter months to hook-up with 40-50 fish during a day, but
remember not to keep more than you can eat in one sitting. Fresh fish is the
best and when you get hungry again, go fishing again. We have just gotten a
favorable decision from the Florida Wildlife Commission regarding the seine
net issue, so let's prove that recreational anglers are not "fish-mongers"
and keep the stock healthy.
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone, and let's go fishing!
Capt. Bob
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