Pompano Fishing Pier 2012 "ONLY REPORT"

[koji52]

After day break there are some good sized sardines and pinfish...sometimes a perch or blue runner will get snagged on the sabiki.

[bulld0g62]

Was there today for bait, pilchards all day at the T. Heard about a snook and some tarpon caught but wasnt there for that.

[chris21]

I love messing with the tourists!

if they look very googanish JAJA!!! I will usually mess with them in a nice way, would love to get something like that on camera.

[koji52]

Lots of yellow tail smaller today...barracudas and tarpons as well. Didn't catch the cudas or tarps though just suffered cut and broken lines (no wire rigs)

[dankind64]

LOTS of blue runner this morning from 7-11 AM. brother got up one mangrove off the northern end of the T (near the rocks). saw plenty of cuda and snook in the water picking off pilchards from the school (only one was hooked up, snapped the angler's line).

[koji52]

Fished from 4:00 to about 9:00pm...caught two macks in the middle of the pier along with a number of blue runner. The macks were delicious!

[clarence2society]

anything happening at pompano pier, early morning or 4 til 6 pm??? im thinkin bout goign out and jigging in the morning and before work.. you can pm me if you dont wanna throw it out there. thanks

[goodolmikey]

Well I havnt posted on this thread in awhile but I still fish the pier every morning or 6 days a week,,, for the last 4 or 5 weeks we have had alot of blue runners,,, some mangrove snapper from under the pier and a few mac's here and there,,, been losing alot of lures to the tarpon too. The only reason I havnt posted is because I dont get real excited about catching blue runners.

[BEOWULF]

Had a snook hit my Gotcha today, that was pretty cool
Other then that, boo-runna fest; couldn't keep a snapper bait down more than a minute cause the runners ate everything.

[Lauderdale Hook]

Went out there today, nothing but blu-runnrs. Few small snappers. Saw some guys snagging some nice size jacks and a few Pompanos

[goodolmikey]

got out to the pier this morning and there were ribbon fish still jumping before dawn... all in all alot of undersize muttons lately but I did manage to get 3 nice mackeral yesterday. cant wait till the n.e. winds

[BEOWULF]

Weekend at Pompano:

Sat: morning-noon, totally dead till around noon when for a brief spat of action lasting all of 5 minutes there was a tiny jacks invasion, then I hooked a nice AJ, only to have it shake the hook.

Sun: tried the sunset shift, dead again, crazy wind, figured I'd try a chunk of mullet for blues... when BAM!!! Fish takes off like a torpedo, never stopped. I got spooled, all my braid gone bye-bye.

[BEOWULF]

So I reloaded my reel with new braid and went out again on Wed around 4pm. Wind was absolutely insane with intermittent blasts of rain.

Plenty of Jacks around, mostly in the 12" range, but one bruiser was landed, looked about 12lbs. Blues & Runners as well, but oddly no Macks at all.

Pier was elbow to elbow, it amazes me how so many are willing to fish under these conditions.

[Cookinman]

Pier was elbow to elbow, it amazes me how so many are willing to fish under these conditions.

They all wanna be there on " THE DAY " like NOV 4 last year....

[ericdavid]

caught a couple of small macs last friday

[BEOWULF]

Pompano's open again?

[BEOWULF]

Anybody know if Pompano Pier is open again???

[Lazy Pelican]

Yes, Pompano pier is open.

[drago4951]

I was at Pampano from 7 am - 12pm. Although there were fish caught I got skunked. There were 4 nice size mack's pulled on the pier. One guy lost a really big one just as he was about to pull it over the rail. There were quite a few blue runners caught a couple AJ's and an occasional common jack. If you didn't have live bait then you probably got skunked like I did.

[goodolmikey]

Fished yesterday from 6:30 am till 1 pm. got lots of cut offs using live sand perch... took home 3 nice macs,,, as we were ready to leave I saw a small pomp come over the rail so I decided to try the jig,,,, 2nd cast I hooked a really nice pompano

[drago4951]

seasoned I guess I left a little early. I was the guy with the cart you showed your two Mac's to as I was leaving about noon. What time did you catch the pompano?

[goodolmikey]

caught him about 1:15... left right after that,,,,, was out this morning caught some short pomps and then the mackeral came in ,,, took 11 with me,,,, only fished from 6:10 till 7am

[rshields]

Nice plate size pomp, Congrats

[Cookinman]

Thats a nice Pomp !

[BEOWULF]

New Method fo Catching Spanish Mackeral

1) Have your girlfriend's hat fly off into the drink
2) Start throwing a Gotcha at it to snag it
3) See mack explode on lure
4) Hand rod to girlfriend and watch her have fun
5) Assist her in pulling up a nice fattie

Happy Thanksgiving y'all

PS: Thanks also to the guy who offered sanitizer after said mack sliced open my thumb!

[SaltLife27]

What time has been the best for macks? Thinking about going early around 8am but some friends said later afternoon around 3 or 4 has been better

[goodolmikey]

they have been coming thru almost daily,,,, being there is the only way to know when they show,,, they run on their own schedule,,,, got some at 1st light this morning

[EssentialSportsman]

Got a few two days ago from 4-5, lost a nice 4 pounder on the way up to the pier.

[SaltLife27]

I went out yesterday morning and got 5 macks in about 45 mins. They came around 645 and were solid until 8 or so.

[drago4951]

Went out this morning from 7 to 11. Boy was it dead. The water was flat and the wind was coming from the west. I got a couple of blue runners. The big guy was pretty big and I caught it on a sabiki rig. I saw a few more runners come over the rail but other than that there was nothing biting, not even bait.