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OFFSHORE- Dolphin fishing remains pretty solid offshore this week. Depth range once again has bounced around, but 700-100' seems to keep popping up. The key remains finding something floating or well formed weedlines and the dolphin are likely not far behind. Trolling smaller baits (strips, squid, small lures) is the key as most of the dolphin are in the 5-10lb range. Not to worry though; a odd 20 pounder will smoke the small baits as well! The other big thing this weekend will (or at least should) be the wahoo bite. The bite has improved this week as the moon has gotten bigger, and should continue on into the weekend. Trolling bonita strips or split tail mullet behind a planer is a great option. For an easy to use deep trolling bait, the Nomad DTX minnow is hard to beat! Along the 120' ledge the bonita are starting to thin out. The kingfish are still around and biting well. Tough snapper bite on the bottom this week; and honestly the full moon shouldn't really help that much. INSHORE- The inshore fishing was a bit slow this week; but those grinding it out on the snook scene have been producing a few bites. Still a fair topwater bite on the snook in the river early in the morning, but expect that to slow just a bit with a full moon this weekend. Did see a few schools of finger mullet show up inshore this week. The early schools typically are a little easier to fish at night, as they are less skittish and come up to the top better. The finger mullet schools have been holding a lot of tarpon in the super fun 20-40lb range, along with a good number of snook as well. Any spawning snook left in the inlet will likely be on the move after the full moon this weekend, so expect the inshore bite to really get good in the next few weeks. The Jupiter Inlet continues to hold a good number of mangrove snapper. The snapper have been biting best on small live pilchards and live shrimp as well. SURF/PIER- Snook fishing once again remains the main game in town this week. The Juno Beach Pier continues to produce the most consistent bite on the snook. Live pilchards (and really any other baits caught on the sabiki) seem to be getting the most bites, with a few fish swiping at NLBN Swimbaits as well. The snook will generally be the most active early in the morning and late afternoon; but also be sure to keep an eye on tide and weather changes as well as that can/will also fire up the bite. If the snook are floating up in the bait schools go for a flatlined live bait; while a bottom bait on a slide rig will be the ay to go when they are tight to the bottom. Up to the north of us (sounds like Cocoa to roughly Fort Pierce) the mullet run is getting under way pretty good; with the big tarpon being the main players. With a swell coming into next week it is likely that we could see the first good pods of mullet show up this weekend. They won't be hard to miss...the giant tarpon will point them out while somersaulting through them. If and when the mullet do show up, we will try to get out an updated report. NOAA MARINE WEATHER: FRI...S winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 1 to 2 ft. Period 3 seconds. Intracoastal waters a light chop. A chance of showers in the morning. A chance of tstms. Showers likely in the afternoon. . SAT...S SE winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 1 to 2 ft. Intracoastal waters light chop. A chance of showers and tstms. SUN...E SE winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 2 to 3 ft. Intracoastal waters light chop. A slight chance of showers and tstms in the morning, then a chance of showers and tstms in the afternoon. Thanks For Reading, Todd Captain Tim of Adrenaline Rush Charters (www.arushcharters.com) has been on fire as of late. This was couple of dolphin from a trip they spanked em good on just a few days ago.  Comments are closed.
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