Palm Beach In & OffshOre

Welcome to the Coastal Angler Magazine July fishing report for The Palm Beaches. Get yourself ready for some wahoo trolling action! High speed or planer fishing is the way to go. The black & purple Island Lure is the color of the pros. Work the depths from 300’ to 90’. These fish will be feeding on bullet bonita. If you want to catch a monster wahoo or a blue marlin, you will need to catch a bullet and live rig it to a 50lb. class setup. For the hoo, use wire with a big stinger hook and for the marlin try a 200lb. leader. Good luck!

Bottom fishing will be on fire in July. Muttons and yellowtails will be eating dead & live sardines. Light lead and long leaders are a must. Work the Juno Beach area, 70’ to 200’. In the mix will also be kingfish. Having a flat line out when bottom fishing is a smart idea. You never know what’s swimming around the boat. Tight lines!

July is a calm month to head offshore and make a drop. When heading out, look for floating structure. Anything with bait fish swimming around it will produce. There could be dolphin 50’ down. Dropping a jig or a live bait down may get you a wahoo or dolly. Chunking is a good way to get fish to come up too. Let’s now talk about swordfishing, the humps of Palm Beach hold pumpkins. The 2-rod setup is how we get the bite at reelintensefishing. com, it doubles your chance to win. Don’t forget a couple of gaffs and a harpoon, you never can tell when you may hook a beast.

For the inshore anglers, the snook fishing will heat up in the inlets. This is the time of year they will be releasing eggs in the tide. Along with snook, tarpon will be roaming the beach looking for baits to slurp up. Having a well with live sardines or herring will help to get the most bites. Need live bait? VHF Channel 68 will get you connected to the bait guys. Well, I have to get back to fishing, good luck, and remember “you can’t catch them from the couch”.

Happy July 4th! The Palm Beaches inshore fishing offers a plethora of species to target. Snook, tarpon, sharks, and jacks will provide explosive action.

Snook fishing will be fantastic, as anglers can target them along beaches, in inlets, and inside the ICW. The snook will school up in local inlets, along deep channels, and beach fronts. Live bait schools are prevalent just about everywhere you look. Greenies are my bait of choice for snook, but pinfish and mullet will get the bite as well. D.O.A. lures work great for the snook along the beaches, nothing beats a D.O.A. C.A.L. 3” Shad Tail in bayou tiger or pearl color. Rapala Twitchin’ Mullets are also great to use while fishing the beaches or drop-offs where snook are lurking. The average size of the snook ranges from 5 to 30 pounds.

Silver king action will be explosive. The tarpon can be found lurking along the beaches and near deep channels. Tarpon school up, and early morning risers get the best shots at bigger fish as they are less spooky. The fish on the beach range from 50 to 130 pounds. The silver kings in the inlets and Intracoastal are willing to devour any greenie in their path, but don’t shy away from artificial baits. The D.O.A. Bait Busters and D.O.A.

TerrorEyz in root beer or pearl, will provoke drag screaming action.

The ICW will offer great fishing for big jacks, sharks, bluefish, and even some big triple tail. Docks, seawalls, and mangrove shorelines are great areas to locate these fish. Look for bait fish in the area as a tell-tale sign that predator fish are nearby. Live baits and Rapala Skitter Walks or D.O.A. TerrorEyz will get your drag screaming.

Well, that is the fishing report, hope you all enjoyed. Get out there and get your drag screaming. Tight Lines!