SPACEFISH REPORT

I haven’t been out fishing very much at all over the past few weeks, but I was finally able to get out for a solid trip Monday morning. With sheephead season starting to pick up, I figured I’d spend the morning seeing what the sheephead situation was looking like.

Fresh off the press from the guy that brought you first word on the most recent Fall mullet run: the pompano run is now in session! Between Friday and Sunday, we hauled in 23 pompano from the surf in Melbourne Beach.

It’s been a minute since I’ve been on the water. I’ve been on my 2026 deer hunting tour for the past two weeks. I traded my fishing rod for a bow and a bolt action rifle.

After the recent rain that fell upon our area last week it has done major damage and filled our lakes and lagoon. The North fork of the Sebastian River is closed just east of the spillway area due to a levee collapse and the Fellsmere Grade road leading to the Stick Marsh is also closed due to high waters.

With all of the flooding and all of the runoff, I really thought the fish were going to suffer and fishing would be slow in the lagoon as it was still too rough to run the beach and look for tarpon and sharks.

We continue to have high water with the flooding. And gotta be honest, a lot of it smells pretty bad too. It does have a septic-like smell, especially towards the Sebastian River area.

Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet fishing friends, I hope you all enjoyed the weekend, was pretty nice out, even for the fishing, finally! Some relief from the boredom of nothing. Lol.

The fall bite is on. We’ve got clearing water and hungry fish. Both redfish and trout have been feeding aggressively on top water most mornings as well as live finger mullet. Chunk bait has been working really well for large redfish along shore lines.

The bite throughout the Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach waters has been really good this month and will only continue as the Fall weather begins to set in.

All our spillways are flowing and yes also the C54 canal that goes into the north fork of the Sebastian River. Thursday was a great bite at the Stick Marsh spillway and a total of 56 bass were caught with none bigger than 3 pounds.

Cudos to all the guys that were out there this week fishing — you psychos! I, like other normal humans, did not get out there this week. I just wanted to drop in to keep everybody up on the pertinent fishery management rules.

If you’ve spent any time around the Space Coast lately, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve had more than our fair share of rain; and while a little freshwater falling from the sky is certainly nothing unusual in Florida, prolonged periods of heavy rainfall can have some pretty significant consequences for our beloved Indian River Lagoon system.

As you can guess, guys, we’ve had a pretty rough go-round of weather this week. Rain and wind kept things scattered as far as charter days go. The inlet itself was absolutely terrible. The water was filthy and full of seaweed, debris and the current was ripping beyond belief.

We have high and clear water and still have a good amount of bait around which has had the redfish and trout very active so sight fishing should be on fire the next few weeks.

Last week was the windiest week of the year. Rough seas and high winds kept anyone from goin near the ocean but a couple days the indian river lagoon was fishable.