Any Recent Beach Reports?

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by reelguy1

Started at Little Florida yesterday morning as the sun was coming up. The water looked just like Speck Wrangler's picture above so I won't repost a picture of the water there. The tide breakers are further out in the water than the ones farther down at the east end toward Holly Beach and we couldn't get close enough to the rocks to do any good because the water was just too deep there. We moved east to the breakers that were closer to the beach.

Threw the cast net and caught several finger mullet when we got there. First cast by the rocks there was a huge blowup by my cork, which went straight down but came back up a second later with an empty hook. At that point I wasn't as disgusted at losing the big fish as I was excited that there were trout there. I baited up again and threw around the same spot. After popping the cork a few times it went down and started running. I was able to pull this one in and get him in the net (fish on the bottom in the picture). Not too long after moving to the next set of rocks, I landed the other one. At that point we ran out of the finger mullet and could not catch any more. We then switched to top waters and matrix shad plastics but they wanted the finger mullet and we didn't get any more bites there.

We decided to try the ship channel and the jetty pier facility beach but didn't even get a bite. There was no bait in the water there. After tasting the water there I found out why. It was very fresh, not even half as salty as the water down by Holly Beach. I read somewhere that the specks need good salinity for their eggs to float and I'm guessing that they are in spawning mode; so they are going to be where the salinity is higher.

Swim out to the rocks next time. A pair of fins help with a strong incoming tide. Majority of the time I catch on the gulf side of the rocks anyway especially on an falling tide.