Florida Inshore Report
By: Capt. Bob Bushholz
9-16-02
The mullet run is on now, not quite in full swing yet but
plenty of them
along the beaches, inlets and rivers. Redfish, trout, snook,
tarpon and jacks
are having a field day busting these 6" baitfish. This is the
time of year to
match the hatch with lures resembling finger mullet. DOA's
Baitbusters and
Swimming Mullet in black and white, dark colored bombers,
mirrolures and
windcheaters will do the job. You may elect to simply use live
mullet .In the
inlet and around bridges I like hooking them in the tail allowing
the baits
to swim deep and away from you. In shallow water we hook them on
top in front
of the dorsal fin. Trim off ½ inch of it's tail . This will force
the bait to
swim erratically drawing more attention. Predators will always
bang the
injured bait. Cast a few feet outside the school and hold on!
A couple of night trips last week aboard Catch 22. Tuesday night
Brian Conley
and his buddy from Monroe, Ga. arrived at the dock at 6:45 pm. We
headed
south to the St. Lucie Inlet drifting the south bank and a few
spots along
Sailfish Point on the north. Great start with a 38" snook on
our first drift
using a select DOA glo shrimp. After a few small snook and
ladyfish we headed
up the St. Lucie River to the 10 cent bridge to catch the last
hour of
outgoing. A few hits but nothing much there. Water was barely
moving so it
was time to head back to the Indian River to catch the start of
incoming
tide. We began south of the quarter bridge (Stuart Causeway) well
outside of
casting distance from the anglers on the bridge drifting live
mullet. Lot's
of bait around but managed only a few ladyfish. The anglers on the
bridge
were casting mainly topwater lures south past the shadow line and
retrieving
. About 15 guys up there but I didn't see one hookup. Normally
fishing
bridges at night you will have a 45 minute window of strong bite
time.
Our second night trip was on Friday mixing it up along bridges and
lighted
docks. Several fish that night but really not productive. Saturday
I fished
10 pm- 2 am with non-stop action. Some of the places I wanted to
fish were
occupied the previous night but vacant on Saturday. Mixing it up
with live
mullet and topwater lures 14 snook were boated that night with 3
in the slot
keeping only one. Another dozen or so ladyfish were released. The
location we
fished is classified.
This Tuesday, my buddy Capt. Mike is pulling an all nighter
trolling south of
Palm Beach and drifting back all night for swordfish. Still
undecided if I'm
going. Never went swordfishing. As long as we don't head to the
Flemish Cap,
I may go for it. This coming Friday we are headed to Islamorada
for 4 days.
September is my slowest month of the year so it's partytime!!!
Capt. Bob Bushholz
http://www.catch22fish.com
(772) 225-6436
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