Happy Bait Update - Rumors of Finger Mullet

C Timothy O'Connor September 10 at 7:22am
Jeff: I've heard reports of fairly large schools of fingers up around Ft. Pierce. Not sure if it's the front end or the tail end of the fingers up there. I fished the ICW Monday and so no sign of fingers yet. They're way overdue. Tim

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