KayaK Fishing Forecast with

Offshore

c apt. brian nelli

Inshore

Spring is in the air! We have had a much dryer start to the year this year and clean water has been much easier to find. Snook, redfish, and trout will still be along mangroves and in between docks. Focus your time on points in the mangrove line and docks with the most current. Throwing D.O.A. Shad Tails and jerk baits will work well matching the hatch of glass minnows in the water. There will still be some pompano action around as well. Fish the channel edges with D.O.A. Shrimp and goofy jigs.

Fishing will start to pick up this month with larger kingfish and more mahi swimming through. The sailfish bite will continue to be good as well. Cobia in March has always been good for us. These fish will start to move from the beach to the reef line. Fishing Jupiter to Delray Beach reefs bouncing the bottom with jigs, sardines, and pilchards are your best bets. Put your time in and you should find a few.

Freshwater

The last few cold fronts slowed things down a bit, but the peacock bass, largemouth, and clown knifefish are still biting. Live shiners and/or shad are your best bets. All 3 of these fish will be looking for deeper water when the water temps get colder. Find the right depth and you will find the fish.

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Pompano Beach (Hillsboro Inlet), FL - Mar 2023

March is finally here, the month we’ve all been waiting for. This is the start of the allaround best fishing season for Fort Lauderdale. During the months of March through May, just about everything is biting. Wreck fishing is just plain awesome. Amberjacks stack up around the wrecks from 200-400 feet of water in great numbers. They are so aggressive; you sometimes can’t even drop your bait fully to the bottom. Amberjacks are big, often 40 pounds and sometimes even bigger. They fight like a truck, and I believe they are one of the strongest fighting fish in the ocean. Amberjacks, almaco jacks, cobia, and various kinds of grouper are all present on the wrecks this time of year and make for great action. For you really big game anglers, we are fully into shark season as well. Hammerheads, mako, and thresher sharks have all already been caught in the past couple weeks and we’re getting more sharks moving through our waters every day. The ‘Shark Train’ as we call it will last until the end of May.

Offshore dolphin fishing is also hot in March. Every year, like clockwork, there is a two-week period (it’s always when there is a hard east wind for a couple days) when the dolphin bite goes offthe-chain and the dolphins come right into 100 feet of water to feed. It’s always the roughest days to fish, but the dolphin fishing is unbelievable for that short window of opportunity. Kite fishing and trolling work very well for dolphin fishing on the reef, as does slow trolling live baits from the outriggers. When the dolphin bite happens, they bite just about everything. Blackfin and yellowfin tuna, wahoo, sailfish, and even white and blue marlin are all also out there and available to be caught this month. Incredible fish are caught over the next few months here in Fort Lauderdale. Get out there and catch some of them; good luck everyone, and tight lines!