Stuart Area Offshore and Inshore

The sail fish bite continues to sizzle as each tournament in the area produces record setting numbers of fish released. Plenty of dolphin and some blackfin tuna are being caught in good numbers. Just south of the St. Lucie Inlet, the mackerel and blue fish bite continues to bend rods. We had fish on every cast using green glass minnow lures. We had one mackerel swung into the boat that had a bluefish clamped halfway up its body. But the best news of the past couple of weeks has been the return of the pompano. We fished Doc's goofy jigs just off the surf south of Bathtub Beach and boated some decent sized pompano and whiting. This spot is better on the incoming tide and shuts down on the outgoing tide. Pompano are also being caught around the Stuart Causeway Bridge and the Sailfish flats near the beginning of the outgoing tide. Plenty of jacks and lady fish are also in the mix. Hopefully the cold fronts that we have been going through will decrease and let the water temperature stay around the mid sixties because when it goes below sixty degrees a lot of the fish seek warmer waters. More later.