The Wind Is Your Friend

A lot of people let the wind control their fishing plans. At Treasure Coast Tackle, we have caught some great fish in the windiest conditions! We are all too familiar with the wind being the deciding factor as far as if we can take the boat out or not. While our boat is extremely stable, heavy chop because of the wind can make getting into position and making an accurate presentation nearly impossible. We had to think outside of the box. We love to fish and were determined to find a way around the wind. That's where wading comes in; if you don't mind walking to find the fish (we have walked up to 4 miles to find them) this can be one of the most rewarding ways to fish!

If you decide to take the boat out and battle the strong winds, the constant running of the trolling motor will spook the fish that are in shallow water and anchoring limits where you can present your lure. It sometimes takes multiple casts on different angles to get the fish to bite. In our experience, when you fish a windy shoreline, the size of the fish will also be bigger! We recently found this scenario playing out on the Indian River; we had three days of north winds blowing 15-20 mph. We found big snook laying in the shallow, murky water under docks. With the strong wind, the snook were just sitting waiting for bait to be blown under the dock for an easy meal! We fed them the Unfair Lures Mullet and Rip-N-Slash instead. Best of all, the "bad" weather meant we had the river to ourselves! I believe if we would have had beautiful, picture perfect weather, we would have never found those fish. It was the most challenging, yet rewarding fishing we have had in quite awhile.

  

                                                                           

So remember, next time you wake up and hear the wind howling outside your window...the fish hear the dinner bell ringing!

David
Treasure Coast Tackle

2013 Florida Sportsman Bash and Tournament

Make your plans to attend the 2013 Florida Sportsman SE Bash and Tournament May 17-18, 2013 now! You can check out the rules here:  2013 Florida Sportsman SE Bash & Tournament: Flyer, Rules and Updates.

Click here to register and pay online.

Click here for the PDF registration form.
                                                         

A Facebook event has also been created for it; you can "join" and you will receive updates as they become available.

We are so honored and grateful that Florida Sportsman has chosen our son, Dylan to be featured at this year's bash and tournament. The proceeds will go to benefit Dylan and help alleviate the burden of ongoing medical costs, as he faces the challenges of 4 rare congenital conditions and more!

We heard last year's bash and tournament was awesome, we can't wait to be a part of this year's and hope you can join us! They have some great prizes lined up for the top 3 finishers in each fish category and some cool prizes to be raffled off. The budget is a little tight without the big sponsors Florida Sportsman had last year. If you are in a position to donate, please do; every bit helps. They are also offering sponsorship positions for the bash where they will put your business name on the t-shirt under "A Good Time for a Good Cause." You can contact the Bash Chairman, Long Nguyen via email at long83nguyen@yahoo.com with questions.

If you are unable to make it to the event but would still like to make a donation, you can donate directly here:  "The Dylan Jouppi Fund".

You can read more about our story, Dylan and his diagnoses here:  All About Dylan.
                                                 


David and Erica
Treasure Coast Tackle

March Jensen Beach / Stuart Fishing Report

The first part of March was relatively slow and not much to report for us.  We had our buddy, Deion down for spring break the last week of March.  Not sure how he is ever going to go back to Central Florida and bass fish after the week we had! We found a great wading snook bite. Waded anywhere from the flats just south of south bridge to the flats just north of the Jensen Beach Causeway, all on the west side. With the strong north winds we had, we didn't see many other waders. The fish were in very shallow water, never being more than knee to thigh deep. We used the Unfair Lures Rip N Slash and the Unfair Lures Mullet all week. Between three of us, we landed somewhere around 50 snook Tuesday through Thursday and broke off/pulled off some monsters. Deion even got a redfish! No signs of trout but that was fine with us. Ventured down south on Friday to see if we could find some peacock bass. Fished a stretch of canal in Ft.Lauderdale for an hour and landed 7 peacocks and 5 nice largemouth bass! Four people ended up catching their first peacocks ever! All in all, we couldn't have asked for a much better spring break and vacation!






  



With April here, we expect to see more of the same!

David and Erica
Treasure Coast Tackle