Jetty Walking Weekend

This weekend was interesting! My brother and I wanted to take advantage of the fishing before the end of the year, so we went Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On the Saturday morning we headed out and were very optimistic, I was a clear day with an incoming tide. When we got to the Island Jetties there were a lot of people that were catching bull reds, skipjack, spanish mackerel, and other things like a flounder here and there, so we were very excited! Throughout the day we were using both cut bait and lure and get some good runs. We landed some spanish and I lost about three red runs because of the crappy line I was using (which was more frustrating than anything else). The schools of reds were coming in and seriously they were big schools, but I didn't get to sight cast into it because....
There were some older men that came up next to us and fish but sometimes there is the thing of being too close to the people next to you, it's more of a fisherman's etiquette. Well, when I saw the school coming in I was getting ready to cast and one of the old guys just ran infront of me and casted, (oh my gosh, you don't do that) of course he hooked one and it was a nice fat red. At the end of the day, all we had were about 7 spanish and a tan.

On the second day, we only got out for a couple of hours in the morning. The thing was that the skipjacks was circling around thick, and yes they are much fun to fight, but they aren't really game fish. The people around were pulling then out left and right, but not the thing that I'm into.

On Sunday, we were determined to make up for the day previous. There were a lot of people out there, eventhough the winds were strong and the sun was out strong. It took a while to get some bait but when we did it was game time. We started out at the mid-point of the jetties for a couple of hours and there was nothing, not even a nipple so we decided to move out farther to the tip, and there was also nothing! We couldn't believe it, the two days prior the fish were everywhere and from one day to the next nothing! That just shows how fishing can be so unpredictable, one day they can be in thick and the next day nothing! I'm still glad we went out, it was relaxing and I good reason to get out of the house for the weekend. I'll never give up. By the way, I set a goal to one day limit out on everything: red, trout, snook, flounder. One day it will happen!