Fishing Report for Indian River & St. Lucie River - Offshore

Memorial Day weekend the seas were too high. The following weekend, Tropical Storm Barry was bringing heavy rains. This weekend the weather was perfect and five postponed fishing tournaments were held. You can imagine the bedlam at all the favorite live bait spots. The boats were stacked up like sardines in a can. The predominant species caught was dolphin. Just about every boat out there got into them. The kings that were brought in were rather small. There was a cubera snapper that weighed over sixty pounds and a grouper that went over forty. The dolpin were between five and six hundred feet due to the west winds that had pushed the weed lines out. Yesterday we hooked three nice dolphin in ninety feet on a nice weed line. We saw several free jumping sails in that area also and a few were caught by other boats. The live bait has been inconsistent but we were able to get a couple of dozen on the bull shark barge south of the inlet and also at the sand pile. Snook season is over and the fish are stacking up at the inlet rocks for spawning. We try not to pressure the fish there because they need to do their thing without all the boat noise. Finger mullet are moving into the Indian River and the tarpon should be following them. Trout and redfish are being taken from the crossroads north. Use top water plugs early and plastic jerk baits as the sun gets higher in the sky. The bridges are holding croaker, mangrove snapper, some snook and an occasional tarpon. The north fork of the St. Lucie is loading up with mullet and the tarpon fishing is bound to pick up. Big jacks are also chasing these bait fish around the river. More later.