Fishing on the Treasure Coast this month is off to a great start!! Inshore fishing for snook, jacks, & tarpon has been excellent with warmer water temps and plenty of bait on the Treasure Coast as of lately. Pilchards, threadfins, croakers, bunker, & mullet are all working well for targeting snook, jacks, tarpon, sea trout and the occasional redfish when fishing live bait inshore. Early morning and sunset has been best for targeting larger snook. Topwaters like the Strike King Sexy Dog are working well along seawalls and around docks for some great surface strikes from snook, tarpon and jacks. Nearshore fishing has been picking up this week for kingfish and cobia. Live bait has been best with light wire leaders. Cobia aren’t too picky, find the fish and present a good cast with either live bats or a cobia jig and chances are you’re going to hook up! Offshore has been very good for mahi, tuna, sailfish, kingfish and grouper. Trolling around the 8-mile Reef will yield good action for sails, mahi, tuna. Live bait slow trolling or trolling with rigged ballyhoo will be your best methods this month. Bottom fishing with grouper rigs is producing good numbers of red grouper and gag groupers. Reel them in fast!! The sharks have been bad so if you don’t hustle on the reeling expect to come back with a fish head.
