SPACEFISH REPORT

This week belonged to the tarpon. Massive schools of 70–120 lb silver kings lined the beaches from Sebastian Inlet north through Melbourne, with multiple charters reporting the best early-season action in years. Meanwhile the offshore […]

Finally into our summer patterns for more than a couple days. Calm seas and afternoon thunderstorms with some bait on the beach and gamefish close behind.

Every angler who spends enough time on the Mosquito Lagoon eventually runs into the same problem. You’re cruising a shallow flat when a redfish pushes a wake through a patch of turtle grass. Maybe a trout explodes on bait in the middle of a grassy bottom area. You make a cast, your lure lands perfectly, and then…Grass. You retrieve your lure and come back with enough salad to feed a family of four.

A slower mixed bag week on the Indian River Lagoon with a lot of experimenting mixed into the usual inshore pattern. Some time was spent off the normal routine targeting triple tail around channel markers and searching deeper water with the fish finder, but most of that bite stayed quiet.

We finally had a great week of fishing thanks to the weeds moving out! Lots of summertime fish are cruising the beaches, including big whiting, black drum, snook, and tarpon. It has definitely been hot, that’s for sure!

The Ocean Obsession out of Sunrise Marina at Port Canaveral has had their customers on the MEAT! Mangrove snapper, lane snapper, grouper, triggerfish and cobia are just some of the species they have caught lately.

Sometimes you plan a spot that really works to your advantage. Right now, whether it’s a jerk bait, suspending jerk bait, or lipless crank bait, if you find the school, the fish are on fire. It’s a catch on every cast and that’s what’s going on right now at the Stick Marsh.

Good morning, all my Sebastian Inlet friends and fans! I hope everyone had a great weekend! The weather was good, but not so much the fishing, again. I was down 3 days, and saw very […]

Fired Up Charters has been flat out dialed in the past couple of weeks for their customers. Both trolling and bottom fishing has been successful. On top, the main focus is slow trolling live bait […]

We have definitely moved into our summer time pattern here in the New Smyrna Beach area with the summer time temps and afternoon showers. The bite has continued to be good throughout the backwaters and the flats are holding a lot of bait fish.

I had the pleasure of joining a beach tarpon charter with Capt. Glyn Austin and his guest, Tony, this last Friday. From the moment they scooped by at the inlet, the experience was equally as beautiful as it was exhilarating.

Summer is here! For my wife, our kids, and I that means time off from school – and even though it’s 10,000 degrees in the shade hot, it gives us a chance to go do more fun things than we would normally do during the school year. This past weekend that involved a family camping weekend at Manatee Hammock in Titusville, and I took advantage to go and fish Mosquito Lagoon.

This week’s focus shifts away from the usual snook bite and lands squarely on one of the most consistent and exciting inshore targets right now: the Spotted Seatrout. Across multiple trips this week, both early […]

Well gang, it’s finally happening…. The tarpon are showing up along the beaches in good numbers. I am really happy that they have arrived and that there are plenty of baitfish to hold their attention, so that they don’t blow right through the Space Coast for points northward.

Good morning all you Sebastian Inlet anglers and outdoor beach goers, I hope you all had a great weekend! This report unfortunately is going to be another disappointing one as the water conditions and lack of our “summertime” baitfish have kept things on the slow side most of last week, and through the weekend, plus the fact that the water temp has dropped back down to 81 degrees as of this report, where it should be in the mid 80s for this time of year.