Today's (December 2) forecast calls for sunny skies, a high of 67 degrees, N winds at 17 mph and two to three-foot seas. Bundle up!

Today’s (December 2) forecast calls for sunny skies, a high of 67 degrees, N winds at 17 mph, and two to three-foot seas.

And now for our weekly fishing report from “Snookman” Wayne Landry:  “Good morning, Sebastian Inlet friends and family! I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving with friends and family! Last week the fishing was pretty dang good with the cooler water temperatures (72) and the fact that it had cleaned up quite a bit and the fish were active. The hotspot was the NE tip of the north jetty, but only the lucky boaters could fish that area. It's all good, because the south side was producing fish as well. The boats, some of them who were fishing with live shrimp and not just live pins, pigs, and croakers, were catching quite a few really nice black drum, sheepshead, pompano, redfish and a lot of small snook, mostly undersized because when the water cools down the juveniles love to come out to play! That all ended on Friday afternoon when the seas and the NNE winds decided to pick up and make it too rough to fish.

 The south jetty was rather good all week as well, up until Friday afternoon until high seas and windy conditions arrived. On both tides, anglers were catching black drum, sheepshead, pompano, and even some small bluefish. Sand fleas and either live or dead shrimp worked for everything. A couple of the guys were using the small goofy jigs to catch the pompano, beachside. The incoming tide along the rock shoreline was producing black drum, sheepshead and black margates on cut shrimp. Some snook were around, but they were mostly the smaller fun ones. Any live bait will entice them, and smaller swimbaits. The water temperature has now dropped to 69 degrees with the north winds. This, in turn, will increase the bite for cool water species, if the water cleans back up.

Flounder season opened on Sunday, so they should be showing; a small number of them were caught last month, but they were small, and closed. The limit for them is 14-inch minimum with a bag limit of five per person per day. Live shrimp, small finger mullet and mud minnows are the preferred baits, but they can be caught on small artificials too. Anywhere along the shoreline you can find them. Incoming tide and at the tide change is best, on either tide.

 Another species that usually arrives with cooler water temperatures and cleaner water is the spotted seatrout, but they are still closed until January the first. The stats for these fish in our area are two per person per day, 15-inch minimum, 19-inch maximum, and one of those two fish can be over the 19-inch maximum, but you can only keep two fish. The south side is usually where a lot of them hang out. Live shrimp is the best bait for them, but mud minnows and small finger mullet can work as well. Also, the smaller artificials work well with them. I did hear that there are a lot of them in the intercoastal, back side of the inlet, along with some pompano. The T-Dock area has been hit-or-miss: some days there are Spanish mackerel back there on small white jigs. There have been reports of some of the black drum and sheepshead being caught on live and dead shrimp. Not much action on the snook back here, except for the nigh timers tossing flair jigs, they are catching a few, but most are too big to keep. The surf is a blown out mess again!!

That's all I have for now, friends. This week is going to be a little brutal with the stiff winds all week,  kicked-up waves, and the cold weather. It should start laying back down and warming up some by Thursday, so we shall see how that goes. Have a wonderful week.” —  Snookman.