Plenty of sailfish and Cobia action in Stuart Fl
Capt. Nick Cremasco
February 4, 2012
Stuart - Saltwater Fishing Report
Fishing for the past couple of weeks has been good to world class for sailfish and cobia. Let's put it this way it has been harder to catch quality live bait than it has been to catch sailfish. We had a week long stretch of charter fishing where we caught 67 sails and the deepest we fished we fished was 60ft. The most sails we caught in 1 day was 16.
Most of the action has been North of the St. Lucie Inlet in 40-60ft of water fishing around large schools of bait. The downside has been that the bait is all horn bellies. Not commonly preferred by fisherman for being used as bait. BUT when you can't catch anything else and the sails are there you might want to just match the hatch. I know of 47 sails that were caught on horn bellies by professional crews during this stretch of great fishing.
During the inshore fishing around the junk hole and donaldson reef structure Cobia action has been great. Cobia were flocking to kite baits 4-5 at a time and if you fished a down bait your were rewarded with Cobia in the 35-50lb class on a regular basis. As long as the bait remains the fishing will remain. If you like to live bait no matter how shallow you catch the bait from now till middle march put a bait out while your bait fishing you will be very surprised at what you catch.
Stuart Fishing Forecast:
Great inshore fishing for Cobia and Sailfish. Good to great fishing for swordfish over the next two months. Manta Rays should arrive in Stuart soon so be ready for some awesome Cobia action
Target Species:
Sailfish, Swordfish, Cobia, dolphin, wahoo, grouper, amberjack
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