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Week of June 9: Too bad the fishing isn't as hot as the weather

A person in sunglasses and a cap holds a fish near the ocean, on rocky terrain.
Angler of the Week: We received this photo of a catch-and-release snook from a contributor named Harold C. He writes, "(We) went out yesterday, 6/8/25, and was slow for the most part on the south jetty. Group of anglers at the tip were using small pieces of shrimp and sandfleas and catching big mojarras/sand perch and black margates on the outbound tide. After the tide changed in the afternoon, some nice blues were being caught casting into the inlet on metal lures or poppers, mainly ranging around the 15” area. Lots of mullet were swimming around the jetty on the outgoing and incoming tides, even small schools of mojarra were present. Castnetted a few but they were down deep and next to the rocks. There was also a snook blitz on the mojarras in the afternoon incoming tide, but it was super fast, didn’t even last for 10 minutes, but one of the guys there got one hooked and landed it, as seen on the photo." Keep sending us Angler of the Week photos, folks. Please send in a picture and the details of your fishing trip to the inlet by using the Contact Form on our website.  Pictures work best vertically and if you center the person with their catch, leaving room on the sides.(NOTE: Snook season is closed from June 1 thru August 31. Details at www.sitd.us/files/b4491938e/quickchartoct24.pdf )

Today’s forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, a high of 87 degrees, SE winds of 12-14 mph and zero to one-foot seas.

Our fishing guide, “Snookman” Wayne Landry, shares his lamentations on this dismal fishing at Sebastian Inlet last weekend:

“Hello, Sebastian Inlet fans and friends; I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend, even though it was scorchingly hot! Unfortunately, this week’s report is dismal once again. Yeah, I know, it's been a weird year due to the constantly changing water temperatures combined with SSE winds keeping the water dirtied up on the south side all the time. It’s tough to target anything with assurance, but there are some fish being caught — just not many, or what should be aught this time of year. It doesn't help that the north jetty and north wall where the snapper fishing is good, is still closed. It's all good, patience is a virtue, and good things come to those who wait! So, I'm told. Anyway, here's all I have.

Nobody was fishing the north side over the weekend. Maybe one or two anglers, but they were catching nothing. On the south side, the only action was at the tip of the south jetty and the beach pocket area — outgoing tide — where they were catching really nice sand perch, or silver mojarra (which is their real name), along with decent whiting and plenty of puffers! Cut shrimp was the bait of choice. I don't have anything to report about the incoming tide as it was late in the day and I had left by then. Back in the T-dock area, it was Deadsville as well, nothing. Even the boats that were around weren't doing anything. With snook season closed until September 1, most anglers won’t be out because snook is what everyone is after. The surf on the north side was absent of any anglers; all beachgoers there. The south surf, as I mentioned earlier, sand perch and decent whiting and puffers, and an occasional bonnet head shark to keep things interesting. 

That's all I have to report for this one, mostly due to the outgoing tides being poor for fishing the south side because it is so shallow, the SSE winds making things dirty, and NO baitfish found on either side. I wish you all a great and safe week. Cheers!” — Snookman.