Gear up to catch fish on all kinds of waters aboard today's high-tech fishing kayaks. From simple "throw-and-go" paddle kayaks to advanced, electric-motor powered mini-battlewagons, there's a kayak for every angler and every budget. This angler has baits out at different distances, hoping to find where the action is.
Might be a few miles up the road, too. When I detect a window, no matter how small, during an otherwise sketchy weather week, I go fishing. If I see that window days in advance, all the better. The forecast graph looked like a roller coaster, so I freed myself up and hit the beach south of Fort Pierce Inlet.
The water color was acceptable, a nice misty blue, by midday with a high falling tide. Wind was light southeast. I was told it was muddy the previous day, so the sediment sure fell out fast, despite the silty material typically laid down south of the inlet. My hopes were high. I baited up three of my and foot rods, and launched 5-ounce sinkers and baits short, medium and long.
The water color gave me confidence. I had caught a 6-fish pompano limit at this spot a couple weeks earlier, but the bite along Hutchinson Island since then totally fizzled, other than a few fish here and there.
Everyone figured the record-warm December was to blame, and anglers well north of us were in fact enjoying a pompano run as far north as St. Augustine, quite unusual in January when water temps normally plunge into the low 60s and even high 50s.
