The fishing continues to be hot across the waters of New Smyrna Beach and Mosquito Lagoon. The weather has been cooperating for the most part this past week making for some great sight fishing in the shallows.

Fishing has been absolutely phenomenal lately, with the only obstacle being the wind! When we’ve been able to get out, I’ve been targeting a variety of structures, including flats, mangrove shorelines, and docks.

Today, I am going to write about a trip last weekend in which I fished, but put more of my focus in exploration. There are several reasons that I chose to spend a day doing more exploration. Honestly, it is something that I need to do more often.

First, let’s clear up a common misconception. There are no alligator gar in central Florida.

This report is going to be another brief one due to the ocean conditions we had the last several days, gusty ESE winds, and big 5-6 ft seas, not making it good to fish, but there were some fish biting.

We had a little bit of wind last week which has been the continuing story this spring. Wind and cold fronts that are making the fishing harder than it should be this time of year.

Finally, an artificial bite is happening on Headwaters this past week! I only fished this past Tuesday before the wind fans kicked in to Gail force stuff.

Finally, one of my favorite times of the year! Spring is typically a few of the more windy months throughout the year, but thankfully our inshore fishing really starts heating up and the wind has little impact most days and can even help in some situations.

The fishing has been good from Daytona Beach south to New Smyrna Beach and Mosquito Lagoon. The redfish and trout have been up on the shallow flats mixed in with the bait pods.

With the consistently strong winds last week it pretty much had us focusing on shark trips near shore and boy oh boy it didn’t disappoint.

We’ve had some great fishing with the new moon targeting schools of redfish and black drum.

With the high winds, bluebird skies, and weird temperature fluctuations – my confidence has not been super high when gearing up to fish – so I decided to make a trip to Crane Creek, and explore some areas that I haven’t been to before and do my best to catch a Tarpon.

Good day, all my Sebastian Inlet fishing fans. I hope everyone had a great weekend; the weather sure was nice! Here we go with another installment of what’s happening at the inlet, or in this case, what’s NOT happening.

I hope everyone had a great Spring Break last week. It gave me an opportunity to get on the water with my grandson and wet a line together which was way overdue for us.

It’s been a fantastic week of fishing here at Fineline Fishing Charters. Now that the pollination has subsided spring has truly sprung.