Indian River Trout Are Still Eager To Please

The Indian River trout are still eager to please any angler who cares to wet a line and go after them.

I hadn't planned on doing any fishing today, but late this afternoon after finishing most of my chores, I managed to sneak in a few casts from the docks in the small park across from the Wachovia bank.

The weather was beautiful with only a slight wind to ripple the Indian River.

I walked down to the docks with the spinning rod that I usually carry in my truck loaded with 30# yellow power pro, an 8' fluorocarbon leader and a green DOA jig head with a green 3X Strike King jerk bait on the business end.

My first cast parallel to the dock landed me a legal 17" sea trout. The fish put up enough of a battle for the people around me to ask what I caught it on, and how many fish I caught.

I released the fish and continued casting underneath the dock pilings and after a few more casts landed another clone to the first sea trout. I released this one and continued casting until I lost the jig combo underneath one of the dock pilings.

I switched to a small gold Johnson spoon and after about a dozen or so well placed casts, picked up another sea trout slightly larger than the other two I caught on the jig combo.

After releasing the fish, I continued casting the spoon and missed three more fish before deciding to call it a day.

My wife called and wanted me to pick up a pizza for dinner. It sounded good to me so I packed it in and headed for Lil Ceaser's.

Indian River trout are still biting readily on a variety of baits if you can manage to fish them slowly. Today there were at least five other fishermen on the docks casting jigs, spoons, shrimp or swim baits in the exact same spots I was fishing and I was the only one catching any fish.

The only difference was the technique. Instead of cranking like hell to get the bait back, I just inched the lure through the vegetation on the bottom of the river.

It pays to fish slow during the winter time even on bright sunny days.

Till next time, Tight Lines.