Fishing in the entire inlet, again has been pretty slow due to all the dirty water and massive amounts of sargassum weed throughout. Not sure who wanted to install wall to wall shag carpeting in the inlet, but we need the blue clean liquid tile back!

Summer is here and the tarpon are starting to show in good numbers across the entire east coast. Anglers can find fish in the 5-15lb range anywhere around shallow water flats with lots of small silver finger mullet, as well as residential canals and deeper mangrove sloughs.

Well, the red snapper season dates have been announced and may I just say what a joke they are again this year. Captain Justin and I usually do not participate in the red snapper season in Atlantic federal waters (which consists of two whole days of fishing again this year🤣).

Inshore is still very good fishing. Plenty of big trout, snook and some redfish. If you find the bait pods you can find the fish. Mangroves, docks and spoil islands are all holding fish if the bait is there.

Fishing, especially for snook has been quite good in and around the Fort Pierce Inlet lately. While we are targeting snook with live pilchards and threadfin herring we are certainly hooking, though not necessarily landing, plenty of other species!

The bigs are still chewing. We caught several fish seven pounds or bigger on a wide variety of baits this past week.

he Ocean Obsession out of Sunrise Marina at Port Canaveral has had their customers on some quality fish. Lane snapper, mangrove snapper, big mutton snapper, triggerfish and grouper have all come over the rail and into to pail this past week when the weather cooperated.

Get the latest word on the bite with Damon from Spacefish on the Mark Moses Show. We talk fishing every Friday on the air at 4pm.

First and foremost it looks like the dreaded seaweed masses have arrived on local beaches. Fishing the beach in areas from Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, Melbourne Beach and Sebastian Inlet are being affected.

For those of you who fish at or travel through the Sebastian Inlet, there is a survey under way to justify the expense of maintaining the inlet.

We have started to get our summer time afternoon thunderstorms this past week brining some much needed rain to the New Smyrna Beach area. The rain has definitely not affected the bite as we are still boating nice trout and redfish throughout the Mosquito Lagoon waters.

Our tripletail bite has been really good this week here at Fineline Fishing Charters. Captain Justin and I have been catching these fish off floating weeds in the Canaveral area.

Friday and Saturday tuna trips were both successful. Flat calm forecast both days but boy oh boy did that ocean get unexpectedly nasty on Friday.

So this week, I am really excited to talk about what might be my favorite way to kayak fish here on the Space Coast – “Creek Fishing”. I am talking about the Eau Gallie River & Elbow Creek, St. Sebastian River, Crane Creek, Turkey Creek, Goat Creek, Horse Creek (lot’s of generic animal creeks).

With gear rigged and the livewell full of pilchards and threadfins we made our way to the mouth of the inlet. Boat traffic was so active that David could barely stand on his recently replaced knee. We left the channel edges and concentrated on the jetty fish.