Thread: If you could pick

One month or one week out of the year to fish the pier when would it be?

I'd have to go with October.

April is my favorite.
With the week leading up to the full moon the best ;-)

My first choice - What Pier#r said!
My second choice - What Haywire said!

I like sheepshead fishing and just before that full moon in early April - It can be magical. There's also the first good king bite, Spanish are also usually schooling and then there's always the Cobia migration to look forward to.
Similarly, there can be epic days on the pier in October, where Spanish and King Mackerel are in and hungry. It's also when I do my best speckled trout fishing of the year. There's usually a great whiting bite and the cooler temps usher in croakers (big ones).

+1 on October.
If it weren't still in hurricane season, that would be my #1

The reason I picked Oct. over April is the fact that there are so many frontal systems coming through in April. Hurricanes in October are more rare.

I usually come down for a full week and at least a long weekend in April and a week in October. IMHO the fishing is better in April if the weather cooperates. Sheepshead, BIG pompano, speckled trout, flounder, whiting, Kings, and Spanish are usually around in good numbers. The weather and water clarity is usually much more stable in October.

and no spring breaks in october

... ahh, but Spring Breaks are usually over by mid April ;-)

If we could only repeat Oct of '08 and '09.