Ponce Inlet Fishing Report, 1-1-13

I have been wanting to get with my dad and give the sheepshead a try down at ponce inlet. I called him at the last minute last night and we put together a plan for this morning.

We met at the Port Orange bridge to catch some crabs and scrape up some barnacles for bait. As usual, dad was there early and pretty much had the gob done. I helped him load his boat and we headed south for the inlet.

The water in the river is as clear as you will ever see it right now. You can see the bottom in 5′ of water.

The good thing about having dad along was I caught a tow over to the docks we planned to fish that saved me a pile of paddling.

The tide was probably half in and we were expecting to really see some pretty good action. A guy that was launching at the same time we were related that he had been catching some 16-18″ sheepshead at the jetty on both the inside and the outside.

Well, I guess it just wasn’t in the cards for us on this day. We put in about three hours of fishing and only put three fish in the boat.

We fished about a half a dozen different docks with both barnacles and crabs. There were a pile of other boats that turned up to fish the same spot so I feel some fish are around.

At least the temp.’s were mild and it was a nice morning to be on the water.

Good Luck,

Larry S.