Fishing in September is still great out of Stuart but what usually needs to happen is you need to expand your tactics and take the good with the bad. The good is that you can consistently keep the rod bent, the bad is that most people want to eat everything they catch and a lot of the rod bending bites are not really edible. We have great light tackle fishing along the beaches for bonito, kingfish, sharks, snook and tarpon. These fish are plentiful and tight to the beaches in the bio mass of bait schools that migrate up and down the coast. Great fishing exists from 3 feet to 55 feet of water the entire month of September.
Keep in mind even if you don’t care for bonito or kingfish, cobia continue to roam the beaches and inshore wrecks. If you are fishing for dinner and have one good eating fish bite for every 20 “nondinner” fish, this is still good and not to mention plenty of fun.
If you feel like venturing offshore, you can expect some incidental contact with sailfish, blackfin tuna, dolphin and wahoo. Your best chance for table fare is to fish around Push Button Hill for blackfin tuna and wahoo. Day and night fishing for swordfish will remain strong through the month of September and you still have a great chance of catching a wahoo or two early in the morning or late evening shing from the Loran Tower, south to Lake Worth Inlet.
Till next time, tight lines!
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