SPACEFISH REPORT

It’s time for those hot summer bites! August is one hot month, but the action can be incredibly good even though it feels like you just walked out the front door into a bowl of soup at 5 am on your way to go fishing.

Greetings Gang; it’s been a long while since my last report and I’d like to say, the fishing is quite good!

Kingfish, red snapper, cobia and dolphin were the main species caught this week. The fishing has been relatively consistent. Slow trolling live or dead baits on both 8A Reef and Pelican has proven to be the winning formula.

Had a great week of nearshore fishing. Tarpon bite was a little slow with the cold and gin clear water but we found some permit as well as a few cobia and redfish that were willing to eat artificial and live baits.

I thought I was done with ICAST, but this past week we cranked up football, and this past weekend I was in Georgia for my nephews birthday party, so no fishing for me. I decided to write a piece about the new VoyaX MOSSA series of fishing kayaks. These two boats won the best in show award for Best Boat or Watercraft this year at ICAST.

The summer pattern is in full swing, and the early morning bite continues to produce quality bass.

This week’s report isn’t about my fishing from last week but what’s it going to be like for this week and more. Running water will be the key to finding fish. There are so many ways to catch them.

Hello there all you Sebastian inlet fans and family, I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend despite all the rain we had. This first report for August is going to be another brief one as most of the action has been on the north side where the water has been a lot cleaner than the south side. So here we go with what I have.

The trout bite has been strong all summer long with lots of trout over 20 inches being caught daily. We’ve started getting some small glass minnows along the beach that have been holding tarpon as well as the pogie pods.

The fishing from Daytona Beach south through Mosquito Lagoon has been firing on all cylinders this past week . We have been boating great numbers of redfish , trout , snook and black drum . The snook , jacks and tarpon have been working the deeper shorelines through Daytona Beach and into The backwaters of New Smyrna Beach . Plugs , soft plastics and live bait have all been working well to trigger a bite . The black drum , redfish and trout can also be found throughout the waters of New Smyrna Beach and in the shallows of Mosquito Lagoon . The drum have been working the shallow mud bottoms as the trout and redfish are mixed in with the bait super shallow on the grass flats . Plugs , spoons and soft plastics early in the morning have been working well . Moving over to live bait as the sun gets higher and the water warms has been working out well . It looks as though we will continue to get our summer time afternoon showers moving into next week but the bite should continue to stay strong .

Summer surf fishing is a huge BUY HIGH this week! Westerly winds will continue to make for some calm days on the beach, where the bait has been absolutely stacked right on shore, and the bite has been fantastic.

Last week I wrote a tackle review after our trip to ICAST. This week I wanted to wrap up ICAST, and give some of my final thoughts on the show as a whole. I chose a cool fishing picture to put as the cover because for years, I imagined ICAST as Disney World for fishermen. As a kid paging through tackle catalogs and magazine articles, it felt like a mythical place where every company unveiled revolutionary new products and the future of fishing was decided in a convention hall somewhere in Orlando.

Most of my trips this week took place during the early morning hours. I had a few productive days mixed in with a couple slower ones, but that’s been pretty typical lately.

Another good week of fishing offshore for the customers of Fired Up Charters. Kingfish were the primary target and they came to play.

Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet fans and fanatics, I hope everyone had a great weekend! This is going to be another one of the reports I really don’t like doing, but like I always say, I call it like I see it.