Snook still smashing on the Treasure Coast as mullet run builds

What's biting

What's next

If the pattern Snook Nook described holds, expect the mullet run to keep building through September as more finger mullet push down the beaches and into the inlets — that's typically when snook, jacks, and other predators really stack up on bait pods along the Treasure Coast beaches and around inlet structure. Anglers fishing live croakers and threadfins around the St. Lucie Inlet and the detached jetty should keep finding snook in the 40"+ class as the shop has been reporting, with the bite likely to intensify rather than taper as more bait arrives over the next few weeks.

Offshore, the sailfish activity that produced Snook Nook's tournament win is worth watching — a strong showing in a local tournament often signals a wider bite window along the same stretch of coast, so anglers running offshore in the coming days may find similar action.

On the regulatory side, red snapper anglers should not plan a South Atlantic EFP-based trip in the immediate term. CCA Florida's reporting indicates the preliminary injunction landed just before the season was set to open, so any recreational red snapper opportunity in federal Atlantic waters is in legal limbo — check the latest state and federal guidance before making offshore plans around that species.

No buoy or gauge readings were available for this region at this update, so treat water temp and sea state as unknowns — check a local marine forecast before running the inlet or heading offshore, especially with tropical-season conditions still in play through September.

Context

A later, cooler-influenced mullet run is consistent with what Snook Nook described this cycle — the shop explicitly noted trends have run behind normal this year and that finger mullet schools typically expected by early September hadn't fully shown yet. That's a useful calibration point for anglers used to the run peaking earlier: this year's push appears to be compressing into mid-to-late September rather than starting in late August as in some years. Snook season itself follows the typical Treasure Coast closure pattern (closed June 1–August 31, reopening September 1), so the current 40"+ snook being caught around the inlet are freshly back in-season fish, not holdovers from a closed period. The red snapper situation is unusually turbulent for this time of year — CCA Florida's reporting shows a season that was approved via exempted fishing permit, then blocked by a court injunction essentially at the moment of opening, which is a more contentious regulatory swing than the typical incremental season-date adjustments anglers are used to seeing. No comparative multi-year catch-rate data was available in this feed set to say definitively whether snook or sailfish numbers are running above or below a longer-term average.