This is a great place for kayak and/or wade fishing. Since the waters of the pocket are protected by the long North Jetty, the waves are usually small and the water is shallow for a long way out. If you return back to your car at low tide, you will have to drag your boat across the first sandbar.
Once you launch, please paddle out way past the wade fisherman and then paddle west toward the jetty. On a summer time Saturday morning, you may see up to 25 wade fisherman in the surf and most of them will be catching fish. They don’t care for kayakers getting close to them.
The tides look great for this day, strong high tide 1.5’ at 9:31AM and low tide 8” at 5:05PM. Good movement all day.
You can fish the surf, fish in the “pocket”, which is marshy and right next to the North Jetty and you can fish the “Fish Cut” in the North Jetty. Fishing the pocket is probably best on the outgoing tide so I would recommend fishing in there after 10AM. There are lots of little drains where bait will be escaping into the months of big fat reds.
If you fish the ”Cut”, please be prepared to dodge power boat traffic. Just anchor up north or south of the cut near the rocks. And you will at least need a 25’ anchor line because it is deep. Lots of fish move thru this cut. You can catch trout, redfish and flounder. Trout are more likely to be in the surf and at the cut, back in the pocket is where you will catch reds and flounder. You may also run across Spanish Mackerel and skipjacks in the surf. Don’t worry about the sharks, just hit them in the nose with your paddle if they give you trouble.
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