SPACEFISH REPORT

If you’ve been keeping up with my recent winter fishing reports, you’ve probably noticed a common theme: I have been riding a roller coaster of weather changes. Between blustery NNW winds, rising and falling barometric pressure, and water temps bouncing all over the place, this winter has been an exercise in patience.

We only got out one day this week, but it was good, both boats did very, very well. We ended up with six sailfish between the two boats and a pile of kingfish so, as I stated, the fishing was very good.

Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet fans, I hope you all had a great weekend, even though it was BRUTALLY cold both days, and stayed warm.

Resilience is one trademark of big black drum. These fish can handle colder temperatures better than many of the other gamefish species that we target in the wintertime here on the Space Coast.

Fishing has been really pretty epic this past week with crystal clearwater and hungry schools of black drum and redfish eating live shrimp.

On account of the painfully cold and windy conditions forecasted for the week ahead, I was willing to roll the dice yesterday on an afternoon surf fishing sesh in Melby beach. I expected to freeze my ass off, and 100% did, but nothing could have prepared me for the armada of Spice Harvesting Machines from the movie #DUNE that were running up and down the beach all day.

Launched this morning with 54° water temps and a solid bite. With a cold front rolling in Sunday–Monday, expect the artificial bite to slow, but live bait is getting absolutely crushed right now.

It seems as though our recent spring time weather here in the New Smyrna Beach area has gone to the wayside for upcoming week. Here in the Central Florida area we will be experiencing some much cooler conditions then this past week.

Ok gang, every year there are certain events that happen that I try to predict in advance, but often even us so-called “professionals” don’t get it exactly right. Obviously, my crystal ball isn’t 100 percent correct all of the time. Maybe it needs a tune up. Lol!

Before bass tournaments, sonar screens, and Instagram reels, there was the American Shad…one of the original East Coast superstars. Every winter and spring, these hard-fighting fish flooded rivers from New England, down to Florida. Feeding Indigenous communities and early colonists alike. Salted and barreled, Shad helped families survive harsh winters. Legend even credits them with saving George Washington’s starving army at Valley Forge; the fish that literally helped create a nation.

I managed to get out a few times this week, and the pattern was pretty clear. The week started out strong, but as the days went on, things definitely began to taper off. Water temperatures are falling, and you can feel the fish getting a little less comfortable compared to the past couple of weeks. That said, they’re still around, and they still have to eat.

Not much of a fishing report even though I did sneak out to wet a line before the wind machine kicked on. We have had some really nice Florida weather for a few days where the rest of the country is plowing snow.

Hello there all my Sebastian Inlet friends and family, I hope everyone enjoyed the wonderful weekend we had, it was marvelous, AND the fishing wasn’t too awful bad either, a bit slow, but there were some decent fish being caught throughout the inlet.

Had a really great week of fishing with some beautiful reds and some really large black drum being caught. It looks like we have two weeks of really cold weather which means you don’t have to start your fishing trip at the crack of dawn.

Full week of wind but the fishing was very good despite the cold front early in the week with 57-degree water temps in the lagoon and 15-25 mph winds most of the week.