Fishing Peanut Island?

[LgMouthGambler]

Any of the S Fl guys fished off Peanut Island? Im going there tomorrow morning for the day, and maybe bring a pole to fish. Is it worth it? I caught a nice Jack from the shore last weekend in Islamirada, and wanted to try some up here. Advice?

[SirSnookalot]

I've fished there dozens of times. Never from the island itself but I have trolled and casted on my way in and out of the inlet. This jack was caught there.

If I were fishing from shore on the island itself I would be looking for jacks and cuda, I've caught them also. If memory serves me correct there will be current around the island, not as fast the inlet, but current non the less. Depending the tide the water gets very low there, best all around lure would be a silver spoon, I'd use wire. The jacks are known to run big there. That inlet produces some great snook too, but the prime spots are fishable by boat only.

[LgMouthGambler]

Cool. Im just gonna bring that same rig I brought to the keys. Its just a spinning setup with 30# braid. I was using frozen squid. Good to hear you can fish off the island. Is there a bait shop close to there?

[SirSnookalot]

I'm not sure where you catch the boat to get to the island, but I know there are 1 or 2 tackle shops on Blue Heron near Broadway. If I were fishing there I'd be using mh 10/20 spinning rod and 4000 reel, my spinners have 20# braid but that's enough. The jack I posted had to be run down with the boat. I have a spot not far from there where the jacks run even bigger, I use a 30# rod and 8000 reel, it's barely enough.........That gets me excited, lol.

Give ya tip about jack fishing, jacks just swim all around looking for bait, then crash it hard. You can wait all day for therm to show up, sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.