Fished the Dyment family visiting from Connecticut. Young Devin caught dinner for the family with 2 nice pompano. One fish was 13" to the fork but the large pompano was a whopping 21" and weighed 6.4 lbs which makes that fish the largest pompano ever caught on Catch 22 Fishing Charters in 33 years. Truly a fish of a lifetime.

Fished the Martucci party this morning group of 5. A nice mix of catch and release mutton snapper, ladyfish, jack crevelle along with croaker, sheepshead and pompano for the dinner table. These pompano are just starting to show up and will remain here thru April of next year. All fish today were caught with shrimp on trollrite jigs.

With calm seas we had the opportunity to target Spanish Mackerel along the beach. Normally these macs start showing up in the Stuart area in December but this year thses fish stayed just north of us in Fort Pierce and Vero Beach until mid February where a recent cold front did push them south. Mackerel were caught while casting glass minnow jigs. Someze nice sized sheepshead over 4lbs and a bonus flounder on the bottom.

The last 2 trips with smaller groups aboard we had the opportunity to fish livebaits using a combination of croaker and greenies. Some snook and a nice tarpon release. Also fishing with shrimp we are still catching some croaker and snappers.

Snook season has opened up here on the Treasure Coast and will remain open thru December 14th. Regulations remain the same with one fish per person with a 28-32" slot. Snook and tripletail charters are up to 3 anglers with all other species targeted are good up to 6 people.

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.