Help a newb out!
Sweman
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So I'm visiting my girlfriends who's doing her PhD in NC. We are coming down to stay in the sunny isles area (Fort Lauderdale).
My girldfriend is not to keen on fishing, but have expressed some interest in catching some tropical fish.
Going to do some multi-species fishing, but I would like to try to get her on a snook or a tarpon.
The problem is I got my drivers liscense, among other things stolen in London on my way here. So we can't rent a car and will have to rely on Uber, so Iwould like to find some spots close to where we are staying.
With both of us being students we would like to minimize unnecessery expenses!
Would love any tip I could get, feel free to send a PM as no one wants to give a way their spot
Best regards
Victor
My girldfriend is not to keen on fishing, but have expressed some interest in catching some tropical fish.
Going to do some multi-species fishing, but I would like to try to get her on a snook or a tarpon.
The problem is I got my drivers liscense, among other things stolen in London on my way here. So we can't rent a car and will have to rely on Uber, so Iwould like to find some spots close to where we are staying.
With both of us being students we would like to minimize unnecessery expenses!
Would love any tip I could get, feel free to send a PM as no one wants to give a way their spot
Best regards
Victor
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Good luck
Have no problem handling the fish for her, usually not in to the while "party boat" thing.
Just easier when you can quit when she gets tiered of it and something else 🤣
Only place within 15 minutes of walking is newport pier.
Is the fishing from the pier any good ?
All this private property and no fishing just boggles me. Back home i'm annoyed that there Is a 1 mile stretch of river that is private. You're allowed to fish pretty much anywhwere else aslong as you have a lisence.
How do you if you just have like an hour or 2?
I am not too familiar with that area
Right now the tarpon fishing has been quite good on the west coast in the canals and small dead baits are working best while the live ones get ignored, guess the crappy weather here lately made them more sluggish. The snook fishing has been decent right after dark, live finger mullet has worked best for them recently. Not sure how these fish are reacting to lures right now though, I never use em. Just gotta fish what you have available, thats a nice looking collection you’ve got there.
I get that people want privat and that you can't really compare because of a lot of factors like crime and just the sheer size of population.
But har the same problem in raleigh, NC state owned lakes and properties and you get to fish a designated fishing area that isn't even 1% of the shore line.
Found a rivermouth that is as close as it will get, about a 40 minute walk. Can't be go East var hing fish i guess 😂Going to rent some kayaks tomorrow and paddle the end of the river out in to Biscayne bay. Looks promising, wont be able to fish it from the shore unfortunately.
Will try to catch some bait in the morning, otherwise we will do our best with some artificials.
I'll post my results tomorrow 👍
The kayak thing sounds like a good idea to help keep the girlfriend interested and occupied since you mentioned she isn’t too much into fishing.
Well we caught a few smaller snook of the kayak, no tarpon tho. Caught a small blacktip of newport pier, a few bluefish and bunch of smallfish.
Lost a big King that bit through my wire after going airborn 3 times. Probably wouldn't have been able to land it anyway on my 4000 stradic of the pier.
Probably wont get another chance, bit trying my luck tonight.