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The sheepshead have been filling the cooler this week! They put up a great fight and are even better tasting.

The sheepshead bite was slowing down in the last week or two as water temps rose, but as expected, the recent cold front fired them right back up! Water temps were back down in the 60’s, and like clockwork, these tasty fish were ending up back in our cooler. Book your trip while the bite is still hot!

With calm seas we had the opportunity to target Spanish Mackerel along the beach. Normally these macs start showing up in the Stuart area in December but this year thses fish stayed just north of us in Fort Pierce and Vero Beach until mid February where a recent cold front did push them south. Mackerel were caught while casting glass minnow jigs. Someze nice sized sheepshead over 4lbs and a bonus flounder on the bottom.

Fished the Martucci party this morning group of 5. A nice mix of catch and release mutton snapper, ladyfish, jack crevelle along with croaker, sheepshead and pompano for the dinner table. These pompano are just starting to show up and will remain here thru April of next year. All fish today were caught with shrimp on trollrite jigs.

The past week has been relatively slow inshore. But today it picked up with a mixed bag of Black Drum, Spanish Mackerel, Mangrove and Mutton Snapper, Jacks, and more. When it’s calm enough, we might even sneek outside the jetties to pursue spanish mackerel. Inshore fishing in this area isnt known for filling the cooler with edible fish, and many inshore captains wont even entertain the idea. But here at 1 Fathom Sportfishing, I am always up to the challenge of sending people home with bags of meat. Today we did so successfully.

After a historic freeze here on the treasure coast, the snook bite has been nothing but abysmal. But today, we saw our first signs of life as water temps get back to normal. I expect snook activity to continue to pick up in the next week!