Week of September 30: Stormy weather, two-day park closure, quash the fishing action last week
Today’s forecast calls for mostly sunny skies, a high of 89 degrees, ESE winds at 10 mph, and two to three-foot seas. Partly cloudy on Tuesday and Wednesday with showers or thunderstorms expected during the remainder of the week.
And now for our weekly fishing report from “Snookman” Wayne Landry:
“Good morning, all my Sebastian Inlet peeps! I hope you had a great weekend despite the rain and thunderstorms brought by hurricane Helene. This report is one of those I don't like doing, but I call it as I see it. The storm threat closed the park on Wednesday and Thursday, nobody was fishing, and water quality over the weekend was poor due to winds, waves and stormwater runoff.
While I was down on Saturday and Sunday, there were all sizes and shapes of mullet, countless greenies and pilchards, but absolutely ZERO predator fish after them! The mullet schools were so relaxed they looked like they were on vacation! About the only thing I saw on either day were just a handful of Spanish mackerel being caught, and they were kind of small, and a ton of those pesky catfish everywhere; heck, even the boaters were catching catfish. Not good. I didn't see the boaters catch any snook or redfish either. So yeah, it was a bad weekend to say the least. Even a few of my "hard core" jetty pros worked real hard Sunday to catch something, but nothing. It will get better, it always does after a storm rolls through, it just takes a few days for the cleaner ocean water to come back in and rejuvenate the area to an acceptable salinity level the fish are comfortable with. The baitfish can tolerate it, but not the gamefish. We will see how this week goes, and hopefully it cleans back up pretty quickly. And that's all I have my friends. Have a great week!” — Snook man.