Fishing Report -- 12-23-12

This is just a warning right up front that I am going to whine about the wind. Today was brutal. 20 + mph NW wind and temperature of 46 degrees at the boat ramp this morning (not considering the wind chill). For us South Florida boys that is just plain cold. Grandfather and grandson Boyd and Bill were on board today and hats off to them for braving the cold. Sometimes with a strong NW wind we can still get out into the ocean close to the beach and still have good day on Bluefish, Spanish Mackerel, Sharks etc however not today. Swell was miserable and ocean rough. So we were pretty much confined to the Palm Beach inlet. Which this time of year is not necessarily a bad option. The Jack Crevalle fishing can be very good, there are big Cudas around and if lucky can see some Permit. The Jacks were around today and the big Cudas were there too but they both had serious lockjaw. The Jacks were about as uncooperative as I have ever seen them. We were fly fishing but eventually I threw some jigs, swimbaits and lures at them but they were totally disinterested, which is somewhat unusual for Jacks. The company on the boat was great and grandfather & grandson had a great day taking jabs at each other (all in good spirits) however fishing was terribly slow. Not sure what had the Jacks all finicky today, perhaps some big sharks moved into the inlet or they just didn’t like the weather either and were protesting.                      

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