Other inshore species

There are times when you can catch more than 20 species in a single trip — and much of that diversity comes inshore.

Roosterfish, cubera snapper, mullet snapper, rock snapper, broomtail grouper, bluefin trevally, jack crevalle, horse-eye jack, needlefish (giants that might run four feet long), amberjacks, almaco jacks, hawkfish, and other species of grouper and snapper. We even sometimes catch wahoo inshore.

When one of the live-bait rods goes off, you never know what's on the other end. When a popper disappears in a surge of whitewater, it could be anything. That's just part of the charm of inshore fishing here.