Cold Water Red Snapper
752 views · Published 5 July 2013 · 3:28 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: SaltyKayak · 2013 · Sports
The river on the New Smyrna Beach side of the inlet is experiencing a bad algae bloom which has practically shut down the bite. So I headed to the jetty top for some action and found there has been a cold water upwelling that has penetrated all the way to the beach and radically slowed the bite. So I braved the swells and headed to a nearby reef and caught lots of small grunts, black sea bass and ruby lips but this Red Snapper is the only fish worth bragging about. Unfortunately, our Government erroneously claim they are over-fished and we have to throw them back.
