SPACEFISH REPORT

It’s been another good week of catching these giant Speckled Perch- a. k. a.- Tripletail. Live shrimp are the best way to target them but we also catch them on small soft plastics jigged next to structure and weed patches.

There’s a moment every backwater tarpon angler knows…You’re sliding through a quiet creek at first light, or maybe easing along a mangrove edge in that low, humid stretch just before sunset. The water looks lifeless at first glance; dark, still, almost closed off from the world. Then it happens. A soft push of water, a flash of silver, a roll that breaks the silence.

Here we go with this week’s Sebastian Inlet report — it’s still kind of slow, but there are some fish being caught. The water has cleaned up pretty nicely on the north side, but remains a little dirty on the south side.

The bite has stayed active over the past few weeks, and lately we’ve been seeing a little bit of everything: snook, redfish, trout, flounder, bluefish, and jacks all in the mix.

We had a good week of fishing on the beach and inshore! The beach weeds mostly moved out over the past week, allowing lots of whiting, bluefish, black drum, and margate to eat our baits.

Last night’s rain we received in the Palm Bay Area was a pleasant relief finally. This past week the Stick Marsh has been showing more and more of what were submerged stumps now sticking out of the waters.

Inshore fishing was pretty good this week with a lot of bait around and plenty of snook, trout and jacks.

New Smyrna Beach had received a little taste of some Summer weather this past week and I will say it got toasty.

The trout bite has really turned on using popping corks and Gulp baits this last week with lots of bait starting to show up. We have tarpon on the beach as well as starting to show up in the creeks.

The 2026 Atlantic red snapper season will go on in two phases, summer and fall, for a total of 39 days!

Florida’s 2026 Statewide Alligator Harvest Permit season is officially underway, and Phase I is the first shot at some of the most coveted tags of the year.

Pretty water, but pretty weedy. Definitely fishable, far from optimal. The weeds were present (and thicker) at high tide, as well, but was hoping to see a more significant reduction at peak low.

This week’s Space Coast fishing report, honestly not a whole lot has changed over the past couple weeks, and that’s been a good thing.

NOAA finally released the official details of the Florida 2026 Atlantic Red Snapper season. They are somewhat different than the details announced earlier.

The opening of grouper season did not disappoint. We were able to put our clients on some great fish and buch of different species to boot.