Last Updated on June 11, 2014
My wife, Carl and I decided to spend the morning fishing from a private dock on the ICW near Ponce Inlet. We arrived at the dock 30 minutes before the sun started to show its self with a bucket full of live shrimp and my cast net ready to catch Greenbacks.
Before the sun came up both Carl and I tossed a live shrimp near the channel and I waited for sunrise to throw the net. While waiting my first cast led to a small catfish and so did Carl’s.
Carl then landed a whiting and I followed up with another catfish! By now the sun was starting to peak out and I could see where the green backs where hiding. My wife helped me spot them and in one cast I had a bucket full of small greenies!
The plan for the day was to have a greenie under the pier for snapper and a shrimp near the channel for what ever else was hungry, and this plan worked out well!
My wife, Caryn, started to land a few whiting and a pair of small lane snappers. Carl landed a few more catfish a few whiting, a blue fish and a small sting ray, and I caught all of the above except a blue.
Over all we had a fun time and here is the total tally:
Catfish: 5
Sting Ray: 2
Whiting: 12 (up to 14”)
Bluefish: 1
Ladyfish: 5
Lane Snapper: 6
Sheepshead: 1
Daniel Hagan has been fishing Florida’s shores since 1985 and writing about it for more than 20 years. As Managing Editor of FloridaShoreFishing.com, he shares firsthand experience covering surf and pier fishing, tackle, techniques, and Florida’s coastal species.
