A Rainy Day At Playalinda Beach

It was a rainy day at Playalinda Beach this afternoon but I just had to try some surf fishing.

From the reports I was getting from the locals and guides in the area, the surf fishing this year is top notch.

I loaded up a couple of 9 foot surf rods and stopped down at Mosquito Lagoon Bait and Tackle to get some bait and an up to date fishing report.

The owner said `that the guys in the surf were catching whiting, bluefish, pompano and some Spanish mackerel, so I picked up a bag of fresh dead shrimp and another of cut mullet to dunk in the surf.

The weather was balmy, it was raining sporadically but the air temperature was in the low 70s.

I normally fish lots #9 thru #11 but I decided to stop at #4 to see what was happening.

The workers from the State who were attending to the walkway told me that the fish weren't biting today.  They said the seaweed was making the fishing a real pain and nobody was catching anything.

I filed the information and took a couple of pics of the beach to see what was going on.

The beach at lot #4 was almost deserted.  There was a family trying to get some sun through the clouds and a group of kids playing farther down the beach but nobody was fishing.

After looking at how the waves were breaking I decided to move on down beach and check out the other areas.

I stopped at lot #8 just as it started raining again.  Since it wasn't coming down very hard I decided to "rough it" and set up a rod or two.

There were two areas with an abundance of shells on the beach that looked "fishy" so I decided to start there.

The tide was coming in and the wind was at my back.  This created a rough surf and true to what the workers told me, there was some seaweed in the surf.

I baited up a homemade tandem rig with shrimp on the small circle hooks and clipped on a 3 oz. pyramid sinker.

Today I was after some whiting for dinner.  I've had enough turkey for this holiday season.

A long cast to the second trough hooked me up with a small whiting on the first cast.

The fish wasn't big but good enough for dinner so I flipped it into the cooler and put on two more shrimp.  Actually, I was peeling a shrimp and putting half on each of the two hook rig.

My second cast into the same area produced another whiting a little bigger than the first fish.

It started raining again and some nasty looking clouds were coming in fast but I thought it would pass by so I continued fishing the same trough.

I caught a total of six more whiting and a small bluefish in the area before the rain finally drove me to the car.  I didn't bring any rain gear along and it was starting to get chilly.

It was around 4:00 pm when I finally left lot #8 with my dinner.

All the time I was fishing the area, I only saw one couple walking down the beach and they weren't interested in fishing.

That is what I love about Playalinda Beach.  It is almost desolate during the week, and especially during the winter.

Although it was a rainy day at Playalinda Beach, it turned out to be a productive day fishing.

Maybe next time I'll pick up a pompano or two.

Tight Lines.

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