Snooking @ St. Lucie Inlet

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[font "Arial"][size 2][cool]September 1st and the opening of snook season is fast approaching. Many avid snook fisherman are anxiously awaiting that date with the thought of fresh fillets on their mind. For those who want the thrill of catching snook and can deal with having to release them, then now is still the time for you. With that in mind, Ron, Dave and I traveled north to St. Lucie Inlet today. They wanted to learn how to live bait for snook. We left the dock at about 6:45 am and their first lesson was catching live bait. A miss communication between the two resulted in the depth recorder being left home. No problem, this added a bit of an adventure in finding the bait. It took about 30 minutes to catch greenies (herring) and pilchards. A quick run back to St. Lucie Inlet, rig two (more lessons) rods, hook the bait to an Eagle Claw L197 5/0 circle hook, make a cast, and finally fight the urge to set up on the fish when it takes the bait. The action was fast to begin with, then it slowed, then it came in spurts, and finally it ended with a rush. We fished four different places, two of them twice during different stages of the tide, and had all of our action at one spot. We ran out of bait and had to run back out to catch some more. The final rush that I referred to earlier finished off the last of our baits, and due to some commitments on their part, we had to leave while the fish were still biting. Ron was toying with the idea of catching more bait, however, they couldn't get back to Miami late and we headed back to the dock with thoughts of another trip. The final count for the morning was 24 snook caught and released. I'll leave it up to Ron and Dave to decide who caught the most.[/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 2]Captain Dave Kostyo[/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 2]Knot Nancy Fishing Charters[/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 2]305 620-5896 Charter[/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 2]305 732-2628 Beeper[/size][/font] [font "Arial"][#0000ff][size 2][url "http://www.rnfl.com/knotnancy"]www.rnfl.com/knotnancy[/url][/size][/#0000ff][/font] [font "Arial"][#0000ff][size 2][url "mailto:nkostyo@bellsouth.net"]nkostyo@bellsouth.net[/url][/size][/#0000ff][/font]
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