Last Updated on May 30, 2019
I spent the day fishing from the Ponce Inlet Jetties and it ended up being a good day! I got to the New Smyrna Beach Jetties just after sun rise and started the day by tossing a live shrimp out into the inlet.
After loosing a few shrimp a nice drum finally took the circle hook. After a short fight I had my fist drum on ice! This pattern continued for about 2 hours. A few lost shrimp followed by a nice keeper black drum. I put three black drum on ice and released the rest.
My wife and I really enjoy Black Drum and have a few really good recipes for them. Even though it is one of our favorite I will only keep the amount of fish the wife and I can eat with in the a week.
After catching a few nice drum I switched over to mud minnows and started to catch mangrove snappers. For the most part they were all around 8-11”. I kept one that was 12”, my wife’s favorite fish to eat, which allows me to continue fishing with out hearing a complaint!
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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.
