Today’s (March 31) forecast calls for mostly sunny skies, a high of 81 degrees and winds of 8 to 10 mph. Seas will be two to three feet.

Our fishing guide, “Snookman” Wayne Landry offers up this brief fishing report:

“Good morning, Sebastian Inlet fishing fans. I hope everyone had a great weekend — it was a bit windy, but nice. This report is brief  once again thanks to several days of gusty ESE winds, and big 5 to 6-foot seas, which wasn’t conducive to fishing, although there were some fish biting. And another reminder: When fishing the north side around the bridge, you ARE NOT permitted to fish anywhere on the rocks east of the fencing marked with the three "NO TRESSPASSING" signs. Also, anywhere along the rocks all the way out to the jetty, and you ARE NOT permitted to climb under the jetty at the beach/jetty point either; it is also marked with signage stating that entire area is designated a construction area. FWC will cite you for trespassing. It is for your safety. Thank you.

Now on to the fishing. It has been a little slow, but while I was down over the weekend, there was a fairly good snook bite for a change: most were small undersized, but plenty of them, and I did see several mid-slots taken as well.  

The snook bite was decent on sides of the inlet, and during both tides. There were a lot of shorts, but I did see several slots kept, and some oversized released. South jetty incoming tide,  use shrimp and threadfins; in the back, south side, mojarras, thumper shrimp jigs, and threadfins. The mojarra were plentiful. The hot spot in the back was by the T-dock and cleaning table, both tides. At the north side I saw several snook caught in the back where the mangroves start, along the rocks, incoming tide. Boaters were catching quite a few snook west of the bridge along the shoreline, which is inaccessible to shoreline anglers due to construction. Saturday was active;  the best I have seen in a few weeks! The north side baits were live threadfins and mojarra. That's pretty much it — I didn't see much of anything else being caught except for a few kitty fish, jacks and a couple of small nurse sharks. On a good note, the water is gradually warming up, (73 degrees as of this writing). With the easterly flow of winds, the water will continue to warm. The winds need to calm down and clean back up. That's all I have for now, guys and gals. Expect a great week all week with more seasonal spring-like weather — two to three-foot seas and lighter winds (no more than 15 to 25). Grab your gear, water, sunscreen and catch some fish!” —Snookman.