Indian River, St. Lucie River & offshore

July 1st, 2009

The afternoon rains everyday have made us get out with first light and head back in around 1 PM or risk getting caught in thunderstorms. Greenies have been in abundant numbers north of the St. Lucie Inlet mixed in with Spanish sardines. The Bull Shark Barge still has a lot of sardines when there are not too many boats scattering them.

It pays to fish near theses bait pods because they draw predators. Kings, cudas, and even sailfish will be found in close when the bait is plentiful. We heard of two sailfish released in thirty nine feet the other day. The king bite is really taking off and they can be found I thirty to eighty feet. Fishing near structure, you can find amberjack, kings, cobia, and cudas. We even had dolphin in sixty five feet of water at the Evans Crary Bridge rubble the other day. They were about twenty four inches to the fork, but we saw a lot caught. With the west wind almost every day, there were saifish in two hundred and forty feet. Snapper and sea bass are plentiful on the Six Mile reef. We talked on the radio with an angler who had limited out on beeliners in an hour. Tarpon are on the beach chasing bait and we will see more and more of them in the coming weeks. We spotted a couple of them rolling at the Roosevelt Bridge as we were going out the other day. The mutton snapper bite at the sandpile continues to taper off. Catch and release snook are being caught at the inlet rocks but we prefer to leve them alone and let them spawn until they are back in season. More later.

The afternoon rains everyday have made us get out with first light and head back in around 1 PM or risk getting caught in thunderstorms. Greenies have been in abundant numbers north of the St. Lucie Inlet mixed in with Spanish sardines. The Bull Shark Barge still has a lot of sardines when there are not too many boats scattering them. It pays to fish near theses bait pods because they draw predators. Kings, cudas, and even sailfish will be found in close when the bait is plentiful. We heard of two sailfish released in thirty nine feet the other day. The king bite is really taking off and they can be found I thirty to eighty feet. Fishing near structure, you can find amberjack, kings, cobia, and cudas. We even had dolphin in sixty five feet of water at the Evans Crary Bridge rubble the other day. They were about twenty four inches to the fork, but we saw a lot caught. With the west wind almost every day, there were saifish in two hundred and forty feet. Snapper and sea bass are plentiful on the Six Mile reef. We talked on the radio with an angler who had limited out on beeliners in an hour. Tarpon are on the beach chasing bait and we will see more and more of them in the coming weeks. We spotted a couple of them rolling at the Roosevelt Bridge as we were going out the other day. The mutton snapper bite at the sandpile continues to taper off. Catch and release snook are being caught at the inlet rocks but we prefer to leve them alone and let them spawn until they are back in season. More later.

Captain Kevin Drennan