5/3 SSP report

[GoinDeep]

Headed out the the SSP today on a whim to fish for a few hours. Lotsa slimy grassy crap floating all over the shallow part of the water almost till the baithouse.

Went to the end and played around with some mangos for a while, got 3 keepers. The tide was a rippin pretty good, couldnt keep a 3oz weight on bottom...

Sent a few decent sized grunts (couldnt find any pinfish) out to the rocks (weighted). Got a couple small grouper, too small to even say what size they were lol...Got rocked up by a decent sized one though, couldnt get him to come out, ended up breaking off after about an hour.

At my spot near the end got snagged too many times again, lost about 6 rigs due to snags

Also got a speeding ticket on the pier from State Law Enforcement by the baithouse. Was doing maybe 17 mph. Cited me for driving "too fast for conditions" because he didnt clock me and couldnt give me a specific MPH over ticket. Whatever.

[montylfl]

You get a speeding tickey but the Guy near the end with the short Grouper gets a grouper sandwich for dinner. Go figure

[steelcity]

you better fight that thing. how the heck can he prove anything. Whats he gonna say to the judge, I went on a hunce he was going too fast. There should be now way that could hold up.

[SkyJay]

Now that's some crappy luck...


A speeding ticket on a fishing pier.


No wonder he's patroling for "speeders" though, the way some folks HAVE been driving out there lately...


Sorry to hear it had to be you though.


Fish On Gang


J.

[GoinDeep]

Yeah alot of folks DO drive too fast, and when the piers pretty much empty early in the morning sometimes I go a little faster where there are no people or vehicles, but I always go slow when I come up to people or cars.....the speed I was going today didnt warrant a $123 ticket, IMO.

Thought about fighting it, but I got a ticket for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign 3 months ago, so It wouldnt look good...Before that stop sign ticket, I hadnt even been pulled over in 12+ years.

Oh well. Back to the fishing, I didnt see anyone get any keepers of anything besides a few snapper near the end. Was only there for a ocuple hours tho.

[GoinDeep]

Flipper did steal a blue runner I freelined out, and he also stole a fish I was reeling in about 40 yards out...Wasnt anything too big, but the fish went from coming at me to running parallel to the pier then SNAP! Stupid porpoise took my whole rig on that one (and by stupid I mean too smart for his own good)

Friggin flipper.

[fishintj]

I got there about 7:45am. Bait was kinda hard to catch as I didnt have my fast sinking cast net. Tried a sabiki rig but they didn't like the one I was using (Lazer sharp) won't buy that one again. Switched to a tsunami sabiki and no problems. Caught two short groups and 2 short snaps, and then hooked into something big but lost it as someone had hooked into my line (Fishing too close to us). No clue what it was but pretty sure it wasn't flipper. Then saw about a 250 -300 lb ray come right by us 5 minutes after I lost the fish.

[ripnlips]

got tothe south pier about 7:30 am near the first bathroom. green snot everywhere in the water. decided not to throw my net there. fished past the last bathroom until the tide change. nothing until tide went slack. jeremy and i jumped a total of 6 tarpon today. one of which gave us a good show. 3 big jumps and a back flip. the bite was on for about 2 hours.

[ripnlips]

sorry, just realized today was the 4th.

[SkyJay]

Asome... Glad to hear you got to stick some steel in some face, and get a few Jumps. Good report!

[fishonfishoff]

That's what I get for leaving early. Jeremy is gonna be sore in the am.