Fishing Report: Sept 21 2013

It’s Saturday and if you’re traveling north off the sandbar you need to allow your self extra time to cross the Wright Memorial Bridge.  The northern connector is closed for resurfacing and the southern span will be two way traffic and a choke point during times of high usage (read that as weekends).
Today’s weather will be seasonal with partly cloudy skies, a high about 81 degrees, winds S @ 5 mph early shifting to SW later building  to 10-15.  0 % chance of rain during the day with a 60 % chance of thunderstorms this evening.  Sunset is 7:03 pm, sunrise tomorrow is 6:49 am.
First tide is low at 3:32 am and high at 9:07am
Second tide is low at3:39 pm and high at 9:26 pm

Most of the piers are reporting bluefish, some spanish and puppy drum.  Sea water temps are between 72-74 degrees.  In the surf catching is good for sea mullet, pompano and puppy drum – sand fleas are the bait of choice.  We hear there is lots of bait in the surf but the fall speckled trout run has not kicked in yet – if you want to catch a trout, focus on the sound for now.   Popping corks with berkley gulps are a good bet.

Offshore action is about as good as gets.  It’s not going to last forever so if you’d like to make a lifetime memory this is the time.  Yesterday’s marlin bite was incredible plus the meat fishermen had lots of variety.

If you’ve got an interesting fish story, come on in and share, we like fish stories.  Take a kid fishing,  Coolbreeze out