Snook, pompano, and some sheepshead caught this past week around Johns Pass and the occasional mackerel too! Snook are starting to head back into the pass and onto the beaches as the water temps warm up and the bait schools show up more and more often. We are seeing most of the snook caught during the outgoing tide around the jetty and start of Madeira beach just north of the jetty using the flairhawk style jigs or large swim baits or live pinfish or big green backs. However, the snook should only become more and more prolific in our local areas and all the passes in the area as waters continue to warm and they gear up for their summer time beach front spawn.
Pompano really have heated up this past week with the nice conditions on the beach, when the waters are clear and calm the pompano really start to fire up chewing on live shrimp, fiddler crabs, or sand fleas. We are also catching them using docs goofy jigs or Nekid ball jigs bounced along the sandy bottom along the jetty or beaches, when you bounce them you are just barely making it twitch, you don’t want it moving more than 4-6 inches off the bottom when it bounces. Mackerel love the casting spoons or gotcha plugs retrieved quickly or live green backs 3-4ft under a bobber or free lined out into the pass.
