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Fort Lauderdale - The ocean today was totally different than it was yesterday, and so was the bait. There were mild strains of Happy Bait up and down the beach from Oakland Park Blvd. as far south as Las Olas. The birds were alot harder to find, and therefore so was the bait. It's still Happy Bait, but no mullet. Its pilchard, cigar minnow, and sardine. But you know if anybody got bait today, we got bait. We sent out the Tweet this afternoon, and one fellow tweeter actually showed up! Grimm got our tweet about the bait and drove all the way from Davie, and ended up getting 3 snook, and a tarpon.

We couldn't find the slot today, which shows just how pathetic the limits are, when you can't even get a fish in the slot even when you are fishing with chump baits like pilchard and sardine. Forget getting keepers on mullet, which is pretty much what the whole game is about anyway, but lets save that rant for another post. Anyway, it was sight casting time today. If you had a decent pair of polarized glasses you could see the snooks, swimming solo, in pairs and in threes, right off the beach. The biggest challenge was getting your baits infront of them without a Bait Hawk picking off the sorry white bait.

This Snook was over slot, and released all fine and dandy for those of you that worry at night about how fish are handled and released.

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  1. zeenman1September 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM

    ReelReport (9-7-09) pilchards were on the beach pretty thick. Not much birds. You have to look for the flashes of the baits back and sides. Cast netting was doable but I was using sabiki's. 0-3 on cuda/snook.


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