Week of August 5: Storm-churned waters dampen the action
Today's (Monday) forecast calls for scattered showers, thunderstorms in the afternoon, a high of 88 degrees, S 20 mph winds becoming SSW at 18-20 mph, and two to three-foot sease. Expect wind and rain on Tuesday and showers and thunderstorms throughout the week. If you'd like to be featured as the Angler of the Week, please send your photos to www.sitd.us/contact-us. Don't send them via Facebook messenger. And remember, we love details! Please include your name, hometown, species of fish and (if you want to share) the bait or lure that worked for you!
Our fishing guide, "Snookman" Wayne Landry, describes how the fishing action plummeted once the weekend's foul weather arrived:
"Good morning, Sebastian Inlet fans! I hope everyone had a decent weekend and stayed dry.
This is going to be one of those ‘not so good’ reports, due to the nasty weather at the inlet all weekend. But it is what it is. Friday, when I was fishing early morning, the water on the north side was pretty clean beachside. Before I arrived, a few of my friends did pretty good on the mangrove snapper and Spanish mackerel on live greenies; then, as the sun climbed, the barracudas arrived, devouring their mackerel and snapper, so they left. I fished for about two hours at the beginning outgoing tide, caught nothing and saw nothing even hooked. Even the boaters weren’t hooking any of the snook schooled up at the tip of the jetty. The water was clean enough; you could see the snook, goliaths, cuberas, some spadefish and barracudas, but nothing wanted to bite.
I noticed big mats of sargassum weed floating out in the current tide rip; it's getting to be that time for it to show up. I hope it doesn't, but it was there; now it's on the beach. Another impact to fishing is the massive amount of slimy, nasty ‘snot weed’ flowing out of the inlet. It gets on EVERYTHING and makes it hard to fish.
Then the weather changed Friday late afternoon, winds picked up, and the rest is history to what we have now. The conditions at the inlet all weekend were just nasty. The entire inlet turned into a muddy mess, front to back, which made it unfishable! We have to wait for it to clean back up and calm back down.
That's it folks, sorry. But you know motto: I tell it like I see it. Have a great week.” — Snookman