2 hours in a kayak under the 520 causeway. Windy and only managed some garbage fish and a couple small sheep using live shrimp.

So just when we thought that Spring had arrived here in Central Florida ole Winter had to make another appearance. We had a small front dip down over the weekend bringing wind, rain and cooler temperatures across Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach and Mosquito Lagoon.

Fishing in our area has been incredibly productive over the past week, with many species starting to move out of their winter hiding spots.

Early in the week we had some pretty good weather that allowed us to get off the beach and chase the tarpon and play with some Blacktip sharks. =

We are seeing good catches of Pompano once again as they move north in search of cooler water with the warm weather as of lately. It’s been a busy week but we had a chance to go fishing and we were able to get 5 nice whiting and 5 pompano in a 3 hour trip.

It’s been a week of interesting weather but the bite continues to be fairly good. Most of my fishing has been inside the lagoons for snook, trout and redfish.

We only finished one day last week. The goal is to always try to catch live bait before heading offshore. Some days we do, some days we don’t.

Only one day of fishing for me last week. I chose to head to the Stick Marsh thinking that the crowd would be less than that at Headwaters but boy was I wrong.

This report is going to be a bit short, as there just isn’t anything happening at the inlet to report on, mostly in part to the absolutely crappy conditions down there the last 5 days! With the wind switch from offshore, to on shore NNE, then to SSE, and 15-20, it has made a big mess out of the Atlantic.

This past Friday Valentine’s Day, February 14th. This date marks a special anniversary of sorts for me, as this was the day my family and I moved to Melbourne in 2020. Weirdly enough that date was also on a Friday that year.

The fishing has continued to be great with some very large schools of black drum and redfish. With this cold front, look for the bite to continue to be very strong.

Fished a tournament on Toho Wednesday morning and didn’t do as well as I had hoped to. Started fishing where I thought that they should have been, shallow spawning around docks, seawalls and pads and reeds with only a few bites but no hook ups.

As we continue with some beautiful weather again this week the fish still continue to chew well. The weather here in the New Smyrna Beach area has been great with highs in the low 80s and calm winds.

This past week has been an exciting one on the water! As a new fish finder owner, I’ve been learning a lot about the underwater landscape and behavior of our local fish species.

The weather is the same but the bite has definitely changed from last week. The giant schools of black drum we reported last week all but disappeared this week.