I am heading down with the rest of Michigan to Florida around spring break time, and the other guy going with us wants to go fishing. I will obvious not decline a chance to fish. We are going to the Atlantic side, near Port St. Lucie. Obvious questions: What to fish for? and, Who to fish with? If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate some help!
Interesting…I am heading down to Port St Lucie to my cousins house at Xmas and I get weekly reports from him the rest of the year. I will get you a report when I get back. The area took a serious hit with the Hurricanes and then there have been large scale sewage dumps into the inter-coastal afterward poisoning a lot of water. If it cleans up by Spring I can point you toward some Snook spots and some good general areas. Lets PM when it gets closer.
Used to go to Ft Pierce, just north of there every year for a long time, and we always caught fish. We fished the beach, the jetty and a little Indian River backwater. If you're taking your own gear there's lots of opportunity. We mostly caught whiting, jacks and bluefish the inshore wasn't very good since it was at the low of the snook and redfish fisheries, the area has come full circle since.
Had a decent trip, no huge numbers like before but we caught a few Pompano up near Fort Pierce on the flats near the power plant on the intercoastal. Also picked up some trout and quite a few snook. The live Target mullett popper in the smaller size did well as did the mirro-dyne lures in xl and regular size green back over chrome. Even scored a few oddities in a very dark Alligator gar one nice Jack about 15#s and my first Tarpon. The craziest part is always the severe on/off nature of the fishing definitely watch the tides, slack tide tends to be less productive than rising or falling. Live bait wasn't even doing much. The PSL River is just barely getting back to saline even though it wasn't even brackish yet as they just shut down the Okeechobee dumping two weeks or so back. That and the Bacteria warnings are high all over…don't get any open cuts in any of the backwater….Good luck! If you want hard fighting action and its slow target the Jacks, they will eat anything and have no off button I would also recommend direct tying 40# flouro leader as the fish are a bit spooky on heavy leaders.
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