Florida Spanish mackerel fishing

[jnashed]

I posted a longer report on the Cheasie board, but here is the fly fishing details. I went to Jupiter Florida last week to visit family and got one day to fish. Hard to pick aday out of a hat and have it be perfect weather wise and it was not. Air temps in the 50s with rain but water temps in the mid 70s off the beach. We stayed close to shore and went after the schools of spanish mackerel invading the beaches this time of year. Needless to say we had agreat day. I soon broke out one of the captain's 8wt with floating line and a 30lb flourocarbon leader. Any fly would have worked with the agressiveness of the fish, but a sharp, fast strip was needed to entice strikes and follows. I used a green and white deciever which soon caught many fish but lost many of its trailing feathers to short hard strikes. The fish would keep attacking the fly enen when it got as short as the hook shank though. The fish weere very agressive. I caught 12-15 fish on the fly and many more on spinning rods too.







Ended the day cahsing schools of mackerel mixed with Jacks. Poppers worked great on these. Again a fast strip was the key. Very fuin day indeed despite the cooler Florida temps. Never made it offshore as the gulf stream ran 6 ft with chop and rain.

Jim

[Brandon]

Jim

Thanks for the , looks like a blast. I am headed down to start fishing Florida soon, going to have to make my way a little north to see if I can get into this action with the fly rod, looks like too much fun not to try!

Thanks for putting together the report and pictures!

[Glub]

Great Report! That is extremely fun fishing.

[KJosenhans]

Nice report Jim! Macks are a blast on a fly rod.