Hot beach snook fishing

[SteveGibson]

Headed for Manasota Key and found the same conditions: fairly calm Gulf of Mexico with rollers breaking on the beach. That stirred things up and made sight-fishing tough.

However, I discovered that the snook had baitfish balled up close to the beach. I'd cast around the baitfish and started catching snook. Later, I got snook over the rocks and I'd cast to them whenever I'd see them on top.

Totals for outing: 19 snook, 4 mangrove snapper.

Largest snook was 26 inches. All were more than 23. Lost one fish right at the beach that took me a good ways into the backing.

All fish were taken on D.T. Special flies.

Into the backing:



Baitfish and D.T. Special:



Typical beach snook:

[shadow]

Sounds like you had a ball! Thanks for the pictures. :D

[wrwest]

I have to agree with shadow, sound like a good day fishin. Looks like fun too.