The fall mullet run stacks snook, tarpon, and jacks against the beach and jetties at Sebastian Inlet. This breakdown covers when the run peaks, how to read a feeding school, where each fish sets up, and the live baits and lures that earn strikes from mid-September through October.
Most anglers obsess over which lure to buy and ignore what actually gets bit. This is the trolling breakdown: the plugs, feathers, cedar plugs, and spreader bars that raise yellowfin, blackfin, and bluefin, and the speed, position, and color calls that make any of them work.
Summer heat drives kingfish, wahoo, and tuna below the surface, and a trolling planer is how you follow them down. What the size numbers mean, how deep they run, wire and bait choices, and the staggered two-line spread that comes through every turn without a tangle.
A swordfish bait fails in three ways. It spins, it collapses on the drop, or it tears apart on the first bill strike. Get those three right and the rest of the daytime program has a chance. Squid, belly baits, whole fish, hooks, crimps and floss, rigged the way working crews actually do it.
When yellowfin refuse chunks and lures, a healthy bait swimming on its own is the answer. Bait selection, livewell discipline, hook placement by depth and drift, free-lining versus weighted, and the live chumming that manufactures a feed.
