10/15/17 NSP

[ft86tt]

Headed to the NSP and arrived by 7 AM with incoming tide with a friend who is also a member here. Second cast hooked into a good sized Spanish Mackerel that did a back flip and unhooked himself (Must be taking acrobatics courses with flipper). After that bite was reaaaally slow. Prime time for me was around 7 AM and 8 AM and was able to keep 3 keepers. We later moved to SSP for outgoing tide and there was much bait fish over there, however we didn't get anything. Really wanted to stay till evening but forgot the sunscreen at home and I was burning. Called it a day around 3 PM. 

[karneei]

Nice! Macks and a Pompano, will make a good meal. I've forgotten the sunscreen too many times also. Now I just keep some in the trunk so I can't forget it.

[georgekingfish]

Nice job!
At least you found some early bird macks. GK

[Mackerelman]

Catch all of those Fish that You can before I get back out there.
I don't want to hear anyone "Whining" like what happened 2 years ago.

"That Damn Mackerelman caught all of the Fish again. Now We don't have any Fish to Catch."      

FISH ON PEOPLE !     

[bacchus]

I went in 10/16 to the mangrove coves just north of the NSP where they're redoing the rest area. Not much was biting even though I was seeing huge fish jumping around the entire time. I'm assuming they were mullet since they weren't biting anything I was throwing their way. I did hook a huge sheephead but he jumped off my hook while I was trying to get him to shore since I was surf fishing about waist deep. I also hooked another decent size trout but he also jumped off my hook right as I was about to grab him. :-(

Thankfully I had caught a Bonnet head shark earlier that morning over at the Gandy bridge on the south bound lane side. Thing swam right up to my feet practically, so I reeled my line in, flipped my shrimp in front of him and he grabbed it. So at least I had that catch that day or it would've been a bust.

[pinfish44]

Nice catch ff86tt. Was out there too on Sat morning. Got a couple macks and a bonnethead before 8am, then the bite ended...gave up by 10.

[hillbilly]

I went out Mon 4AM near the bathroom area and caught a bunch of ladyfish, small and large mostly on small bucktail. Bite stopped @ 6:30, caught a keeper Mack on a spoon and that was it. Moved to SSP @ 9:00 and went to where there was baitfish (there was a bunch) and hooked Blue Runners and small Jacks on my first nine casts, landed eight of them, lost count on total catch. Used a spoon, the Runners were rather large, 10 in. Great fighters. I was catching them almost under the pier where the shadow hit the water. Saw a few Macks come over the rail but not in great numbers. Probably going back Sat with my son to hopefully do some more damage.