Thread: Slow fishing

I made my first trip down to the pier the other day and it was slooooooow. I'm from Nashville so I'm not too educated on the pier down here but is it usually that slow in the summer? And everyone down there was so helpful and nice. I'll definitely be making another trip down to the pier while I'm still in town

It is only going to get worse over the next month or more. Dog days of summer. If you are generally to have any luck it will be first light or right at sunset. It gets so hot that bait goes back to cooler water and so do the fish that feed on them. There will also become an abundance of jellyfish which creates a hazard fishing because it gets hard to steer your line around them because there are so many and then you run the chance of getting stung. About the only fishing I start dong this time of the year is inshore at night from my kayak.

Rockinchef has a good handle on the situation. Once the water heats up, the fishing cools off. The stretch between the middle of July and the middle of September can be pretty poor for catching fish---from the pier, anyhow. Get offshore, and you're in business.