Stuart Area Offshore and Inshore

The dolphin bite has steadily picked up in the past two weeks as both schoolies and bigger fish are being boated in good numbers. Most of these fish are being caught on trolled ballyhoo near rips and weed lines form eighty to two hundred feet out. There are plenty of blackfin tuna also being caught from one hundred and twenty feet and out. The mullet run is on near the beach and in the rivers. Near the beach are Spanish mackerel, blue fish, jacks, and tarpon feeding on the plentiful bait. There are plenty of finger mullet in the north fork of the St. Lucie River and the fishing has taken off. We released several tarpon in the twenty to forty pound range and a few snook up to forty-four inches. Bottom fishing has produced a mixed bag of porgy, vermilions, and trigger fish in seventy feet of water south of the inlet. We are looking forward to great fishing as we head into November. More later.