Stuart / Jensen Beach Inshore Fishing Forecast: May 2014

My buddy Marty L'Heruex working the dark hours, hooks an over slot snook while fishing with Capt. John Young of Bites On Charters. PHOTO CREDIT: Capt. John Young.
My buddy Marty L’Heruex working the dark hours, hooks an over slot snook while fishing with Capt. John Young of Bites On Charters. PHOTO CREDIT: Capt. John Young.

The night bite around Sewall’s Point docks and the bridges will be good for snook and trout this month. Try free lining a live shrimp or mullet near the dock lights or flipping swim baits along the shadow line for good action. Busting of bait under the docks is a good indication that you have found hungry fish. Number one rule: Be quiet and the bite might stay hot, get noisy and you will shut ‘em down. Big pre-spawn female snook are chunking up for the summer spawn and a selection of live bait or artificial will work. Look for big bruiser jacks up to 40 lbs. in the green water off the beach if you want to hear your drag scream and see line disappear quickly off your reel. Let the green horn (rookie) light them up with a big top water plug for fun. Good month for gator trout and reds on the flats throwing topwater plugs early and then switch to D.O.A. soft rubber baits. Look for the potholes and edges of the grass flats this is where they set up to ambush. Tarpon will begin showing up around the inlets and back into the St. Lucie River so start looking for them. Anticipate the swim pattern of the tarpon and cast a live mullet or pilchard in front of the rolling fish. Keep the waterways clean.