The bite has been great this month! From the bridges to the flats. The trout bite has started to heat up with the water cooling off enough for us to think it's time to invest in new waders again. Look for sandbars on either side of the river and you will find trout. The bite has been in 3-5 feet of water. The Unfair Lures Rip-N-Slash or the D.O.A. Shrimp have both worked very well. Ryan put his buddy, Shawn on his biggest trout ever, it was just shy of 27 inches!
The big schools of jacks have been everywhere in the Indian River from the Jensen Causeway to the power lines. They are all 15 to 30 pound fish and in schools of hundreds. We've been lucky enough to catch them passing by the west side a few times and they will hit just about anything you throw. During a Joupdog Wading Adventures trip, one client was lucky enough to hook into one of these bruisers and land it after about a 20 minute fight!
The redfish are starting to show up a bit more around the mangroves on the east side and the shallows of the west bank. The redfish bite should only get better with every cold front.
Away from the flats, the bridges have also been extremely good lately. One night, we set out to catch tarpon and ended up jumping off four of them. Later that night, we landed two big snook that hit at the base of the pilings. One taped out to 36" and the other to 40". The past week the flare hawk bite has really picked up too. Every night we have been, we have managed at least one over slot fish and often three fish or more. Most of the fish are over slot, but the occasional slot fish is mixed in.
The bite has been great and the mullet run is on the decline. November should have some interesting fishing in store for everyone and we can only hope it is as good as this month!
David & Erica
Treasure Coast Tackle
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
How to Work the Unfair Lures Paul's Dinkum Shrimp 85 (Floating)
Not sure how to work the Unfair Lures Paul's Dinkum Shrimp 85 (floating)? Use this technique and you'll be sure to catch them!
The real key is to make a long cast, retrieve it very slowly and don't stop...that's the ticket. If you stop, it's going to pop back up to the top and you're going to have another 6 or 7 feet before it actually gets down to the depth you want it.
David - Treasure Coast Tackle
The real key is to make a long cast, retrieve it very slowly and don't stop...that's the ticket. If you stop, it's going to pop back up to the top and you're going to have another 6 or 7 feet before it actually gets down to the depth you want it.
David - Treasure Coast Tackle
Wading the Indian River (10-21-13) Video
Wading trip which included a snook, a bruiser jack, lots of trout action and...a SHARK ENCOUNTER!
Friday, October 11, 2013
TROUTMANIA Leader Board (10-11-13 through 11-03-13)
PARTICIPANTS TROUT 1 TROUT 2 TROUT 3
Akers, Todd
Amengual, Jose
Avera, Michael 11" 15.25" 14"
Blake, Shawn 17"
Bossio, Colin
Bower, Matt 17" 18.5" 19.5"
Broach, Jason 14.25" 16.75" 24.75"
Brust, Steve 25" 17.75" 19.75"
Custer, Taylor
Escalona, Javier 18" 19" 21"
Gavanditti, Michael
Gray, Richard
Jackson, Richard 17.5" 18" 18.25"
Johnson, Chris
Jordan, Zachary 21" 25" 26.5"
King, Luke
Lue, Stan 15.50" 17.50" 20.25"
Mendietta, Tino 20" 28.75" 29.50"
Oliveira, Chris
Orlofske, Matt 14" 16" 17"
Pecora, Jasen 20" 20.5" 21.75"
Pierschke, Shea
Racine, Olin 12" 13" 13.5"
Salser, Rodney 10" 15.5"
Spessard, Noah 17.5" 19.25" 20"
Surrencey, Shane
Thompson, Erick 20.5" 21" 23"
Thrasher, Rick 18".75 20" 24"
Valcarce, Michael
Varady, Collin
Weilage, Evan
Weilage, Leanne
Young, Steve
** Last updated 11-03-13 at 5:00 p.m. **
Akers, Todd
Amengual, Jose
Avera, Michael 11" 15.25" 14"
Blake, Shawn 17"
Bossio, Colin
Bower, Matt 17" 18.5" 19.5"
Broach, Jason 14.25" 16.75" 24.75"
Brust, Steve 25" 17.75" 19.75"
Custer, Taylor
Escalona, Javier 18" 19" 21"
Gavanditti, Michael
Gray, Richard
Jackson, Richard 17.5" 18" 18.25"
Johnson, Chris
Jordan, Zachary 21" 25" 26.5"
King, Luke
Lue, Stan 15.50" 17.50" 20.25"
Mendietta, Tino 20" 28.75" 29.50"
Oliveira, Chris
Orlofske, Matt 14" 16" 17"
Pecora, Jasen 20" 20.5" 21.75"
Pierschke, Shea
Racine, Olin 12" 13" 13.5"
Salser, Rodney 10" 15.5"
Spessard, Noah 17.5" 19.25" 20"
Surrencey, Shane
Thompson, Erick 20.5" 21" 23"
Thrasher, Rick 18".75 20" 24"
Valcarce, Michael
Varady, Collin
Weilage, Evan
Weilage, Leanne
Young, Steve
** Last updated 11-03-13 at 5:00 p.m. **