After stopping by the North Jetty on Tuesday and finding it empty of people and full of bait and hungry Snook, I decided I would stop by Wednesday armed with a cast net and pole. There was about 15 fisherman with the same idea. But the bait and the Snook were both still there. With a strong outgoing tide of coffee colored water, I choose to start on the beach side of the jetty. The bait was right along the beach, so with one throw of the cast net, I was ready to fish. My favorite way to fish for snook is to free line a nose hooked bait about five feet from the rocks. After watching several snook give my bait a look but not really chase it, I could tell it was not going to be easy. Snook can be very stubborn. Sometimes if you see a snook who is following the bait around you can throw your bait in its path and get a strike. Most of the snook were staying low, not really chasing anything. After 20 minutes, a small 15 in. snook was the first to give in to the temptation and swallow my bait. That pattern continued for the next hour and a half. Three more small snook about 20 minutes apart. No one else seemed to be catching much either. Some small snappers and one flounder. A school of Jacks showed up on the south jetty, crashing the bait as it worked its way along the rocks. I hoped they would find their way to north side. About 15 minutes later, they were crashing right in front of me. I got one jack out of the feeding frenzy before they quickly moved on. Around 1 o'clock, I moved out to the end of the jetty with some fresh baits. There I was rewarded with four snook landed and three that self-released. All within a hour. The total for the day was 9 snook, up to 22 in. and one jack. Not bad for 3 and 1/2 hours of basically free fishing.
Take some time off and come Play Hookey with me.
Captain Peter
http://www.PlayinHookey.com
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