Yeah I catch your drift I'm leaving now to try and catch some fat snook with some buddies

I wish you well in your endeavor, but with the decreasing water temperature the snook are few and far between. I may suggest the El Rio canal in Boca on high tide, the snook may be holding up in the warmer water.

The bite is Palm Beach County has been poor, but the bright spot for me has been barracuda. Generally its too cold for them now, but they have been around and we have caught a few. We throw surgical tubes on the incoming tide hopefully with a calm wind. They come around like a wolfpack 30 minutes before tide change.

Cudas seem to be one of the more difficult fish I have ever caught on artis, you just don't get them everyday. Amazingly how picky they can be. They will chase that lure down at 30mph then turn on dime within inches or if they hit half the time they miss the hook.

When they run over 40" they give one heck of fight.

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I use something like this but I make my own.

That is a great report. No snook in two days of fishing, but two medium barracudas. That is an interesting lure there. Is it supposed to be fished like a jerkbait?

As I mentioned it has been poor latley and I haven't caught a snook in weeks.  The last 2 days have been producing east winds between 20-30mph with swells up to 6' or more.  This is a positive not a negative, the rougher the water the better the fishing, but this year there has been a lack of baitfish and the baitfish bring in the gamefish.  It's feast or famine, there are many times you get a hook up on almost every cast, then you can go for days without a strike as is the case now.

At an inlet you have to play the tides, snook and tarpon on the outgoing as they like dirty water, other species like clean water so it's the incoming for them.  I'll give ya a tip, after spending hundreds of dollars on every lure known to man, it boils down for this.  All you really need is a silver spoon, a feather, swimbait if you like them and a topwater.  So many of the old timers that catch tons of fish walk around with only a spoon nothing else.  Nothing catches more fish than a generic silver spoon for $2.50. lol.  I go overboard myself as I like to try different things, but really isn't needed.

Is it supposed to be fished like a jerkbait?

NOPE.

No science here, cast it out and reel it in fast, these cudas don't bite, they attack!  Best to use a 4-5000 spinning reel with rod rating of 25# from the pier, off the beach you can go a tad lighter.

alright thanks I will have to try that

If I run into you I'll give ya a tube, I make them up. Bass Pro in Dania sells them as well as some of the small tackle shops, a good brand is Sea Striker.

Word of caution....Handle these guys with care, they will go after you. Let them calm down for a few minutes and secure them. Last year one guy had his hand severly bitten.

Pump up reel down      

ten four, over and out, roger, and affirmative. I definitely would let a big cuda ware itself out before I would handle it now