SPACEFISH REPORT

It was cold and windy, but with largely a dominate west wind, the surf remained very fishable all week. I had a few limited opportunities to get out there and took them, and the bite was pretty active.

One of my go to bites this time of year is large black drum. These fish are hard fighters, usually are pretty cooperative, and can be caught various ways including fly and spinning tackle!

Hope everyone stayed warm over the past couple of weeks with all the cold fronts that rolled through. This week and next week look like they’re going to warm up, and hopefully that helps warm the water up a bit too, because the cold has definitely been taking a toll on the fish.

Fishing has been decent despite the coldest weather we had in 15 plus years. Still some pompano around as well as some trout, bluefish and ladyfish.

Hello, Sebastian Inlet friends and anglers; here we go with this week’s report for the happenings­ —or not — at the inlet. It’s quick and short, as nothing has changed at the inlet from last week’s report except that the water has gotten dirtier, rougher, and remained very cold, 59 degrees as of this writing!

Warm days are ahead this week with the overnight temperatures staying in the low 50’s. These temperatures will give our fish in the backwaters a little break from the cold.

What a great time to fish! The Mosquito Lagoon has clean, low water with large schools of redfish and black drum, so this is the perfect time if you want to try sight fishing.

The Southern Kingfish Association (SKA) is proud to announce the launch of Division 6 Space Coast, bringing competitive kingfish tournaments to Florida’s east-central coastline and creating a new home for anglers and families across the region.

Some fishing stories start with a bent rod. This one starts with a 17-year-old kid from Pennsylvania who had never seen the ocean…

I wish I were bringing you more joyful news, but…Florida has found itself in the throes of a true winter gut punch. A prolonged polar vortex has pushed cold air deep into the peninsula, dropping water temperatures across rivers, lagoons, canals, and backwaters. For Florida’s tropical and subtropical fish species, especially snook, this kind of cold can be devastating.

Under the FWC’s new regional management rules for spotted seatrout in the Indian River Lagoon region…

Pic. From after the big freeze. caught on chatter.

With the recent cold temps it has been a little brutal on us Floridians that are not accustomed to below freezing for long periods of time.

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.