8/23/2014 + 8/24/2014 Hot! Hot! Hot! So Hot!
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:43 pm
Man, once you hit 10-11am and it's hot... crazy hot at 12pm. Today is the worst... heat index of 108! Anyways time for the report. Heard people were slaying mackerel out there... 40 mackerel to one group? 0.o
8/23/2014
As usual, got there before sunrise and on my third cast, bam, a pompano. Pull it up and measure it... shy of 11" back he goes. Thinking to myself, it's going to be a great pompano day! about every 30 - 45mins, I would get a pompano, until I landed 3. Then while jigging bam! The line started peeling off my spool really fast. Thinking to myself, score! Must be a permit that's running like this. 50yds later, it stopped and I started pumping it back in. When it got next to the bridge, I saw a flash in the water. Damn! It's a stringray. >.<
It ran into the pilling and I pull it out and I landed it. Other than that, I caught a jack, sheephead.
The macks and mangrove snapper were all over the places chowing down on 1" greenies. The group next to me were slaying them!
Total for 8/23/2014
3 keeper pompano, 1 smaller one.
1 jack
1 stringray
1 Sheephead
Most of the bites are before 11am.
8/24/2014
Got there before sunrise and I am really for the mackerel and snapper this time. I just bought a new castnet for bait!
About 45 mins to an hr, bam pompano hook up. Darn... it's a tad short. >.< See a bunch of mackerel and snapper eating the bait fish again. I then get a good amount of greenies for chum and bait. Then I keep on continue fishing for pompano until it's the tide that I wanted. Every now a then, I would throw a hand full into the water to see if the mackerel are around yet but they don't seems to be yet. I kept fishing and ended up landing 2 keeper pompano.
The other group that was slaying them yesterday came. I joined them and fished for snapper and mackerel. We slayed them today as well. I got my limit of snapper and got out of there... So hot!
The mackerel are here at skyways people! Get out there and catch them up!
8/23/2014
As usual, got there before sunrise and on my third cast, bam, a pompano. Pull it up and measure it... shy of 11" back he goes. Thinking to myself, it's going to be a great pompano day! about every 30 - 45mins, I would get a pompano, until I landed 3. Then while jigging bam! The line started peeling off my spool really fast. Thinking to myself, score! Must be a permit that's running like this. 50yds later, it stopped and I started pumping it back in. When it got next to the bridge, I saw a flash in the water. Damn! It's a stringray. >.<
It ran into the pilling and I pull it out and I landed it. Other than that, I caught a jack, sheephead.
The macks and mangrove snapper were all over the places chowing down on 1" greenies. The group next to me were slaying them!
Total for 8/23/2014
3 keeper pompano, 1 smaller one.
1 jack
1 stringray
1 Sheephead
Most of the bites are before 11am.
8/24/2014
Got there before sunrise and I am really for the mackerel and snapper this time. I just bought a new castnet for bait!
About 45 mins to an hr, bam pompano hook up. Darn... it's a tad short. >.< See a bunch of mackerel and snapper eating the bait fish again. I then get a good amount of greenies for chum and bait. Then I keep on continue fishing for pompano until it's the tide that I wanted. Every now a then, I would throw a hand full into the water to see if the mackerel are around yet but they don't seems to be yet. I kept fishing and ended up landing 2 keeper pompano.
The other group that was slaying them yesterday came. I joined them and fished for snapper and mackerel. We slayed them today as well. I got my limit of snapper and got out of there... So hot!
The mackerel are here at skyways people! Get out there and catch them up!
