Melbourne beach surf snook

cuetoster

Got out to the beach just after sunrise for some mullet run beach action. All week the surf has been pretty stirred up with boat loads of weeds floating around resulting in 90% of my casts catching sargassum clumps. This morning, probably because it was the last few hours of the outgoing tide, the weeds were absent and the water was much clearer. Between the first and second sets of waves were tons of finger mullet so it was game on!

Started out using a 1.5 ounce silver spoon. After a dozen or so casts, caught and released two small jacks. Switched to my go to yozuri shallow diving plug and started working north. Was able to catch a nice 28.5" snook. After a quick photo and resuscitation, released her for another day.

The Fit Adventure

Very nice, congrats on that snook! I was doing the same on Friday and caught a smaller snook, had a bigger one on but it came off. Also saw lots of tarpon feeding on the mullet.

duckmanJR

Nice work!

cuetoster

The Fit Adventure wrote: »

Very nice, congrats on that snook! I was doing the same on Friday and caught a smaller snook, had a bigger one on but it came off. Also saw lots of tarpon feeding on the mullet.

Thanks! Some 3-5 foot sharks crashing the mullet schools as well. Didn't happen yesterday but I've had one of these sharks hit my spoon literally within a poles length from me

cuetoster

duckmanJR wrote: »

Nice work!

Thanks! I've only caught a handful from the beach but they're definitely worth the extra time and effort to catch

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