Congratulations to Mark Johnson from Vero Beach becoming Catch 22's newest member of our 20lb tripletail club. We target tripletail pretty much all year. Similar to livebaiting for snook, ideally its a 2 person maximum on these trips. Tripletail are one of the best table fare fish on the planet.

Fished this morning with Fred Hepper from Bernardsville, N.J and Mark Johnson from Vero Beach again on our first snook trip of the season. These guys fished with me a few weeks ago catching 3 nice tripletail. Today while livebaiting with greenies they went 3 for 3 on snook keeping one in the 28-32 " slot.

As we head into springtime, the tripletail bite along the Treasure Coast picks up nicely. In the past month we have caught some decent size tripletail on our half and 3/4 day trips. This bite only gets better as we head into the summer months.

As we approach the new year, look for our winter species to arrive. Pompano, Spanish Mackerel and Bluefish will be around December thru April. Also the sheepshead, flounder, croaker, whiting, tripletail and black drum bite picks up this time of year.

Today I fished Stan Pierce and Jeremy Granger down from Cortland, N.Y. Mixing it up fishing with live greenies and shrimp we had a few nice snook, a few black drum along with a bonnethead shark. These guys have a busy day planned with a wedding to attend after fishing at 5pm.

The snook bite gets better and better in the summer as they head each year to the inlet and along the beaches for their annual spawn. Snook season reopens September 1st with the same regulations ( 28-32" slot, 1 per person). While livebaiting for snook, expect to see jack crevelles, tarpon, Goliath grouper and cubera snapper also chewing. Some really nice tripletail so far this year but the normally seen sheepshead and black drum has been slow. Outside with calm seas a few miles offshore while livebaiting look for kingfish, mahi, sailfish, barracuda, bonita. On these trips I require calm seas of 2 foot or less and available on 3/4 and full day trips.