SPACEFISH REPORT

The ocean did not exactly roll out the welcome mat for our recent surf-fishing trip to Melbourne Beach. We had rough, post-storm conditions, dirty water, and a bite that was slower than usual. Live sand fleas were hard to come by, too.

The last day we had decent weather was Monday the 6th and it was on fire on the reefs! We caught mahi, kingfish and cobia. Slow trolling live bait or frozen minnows both worked fine.

Sunday’s red snapper trip is in the books! We had ourselves a full limit with some studs and a few bonus variety snappers. Check us out all week, the weather looks good and the fishing looks better.

Inshore bite around Grant/Sebastian has been tough. There’s been very little bait the last several weeks most likely due to all of the rain, but there is some decent numbers near the inlet.

Hello there all you Sebastian Inlet fans and friends! I hope you all had a great weekend despite all the rain we had both days. This week will be much better, no rain in the forecast the next few days, and some cooler temps with that.

Water temperature is holding around 80°, and the topwater bite has been producing some great opportunities this week! The lake is up a good 12”.

The spillways are flowing with vengeance this past week which made for some tough conditions at our area lakes. Last Monday’s report I wrote while sitting in front of the SE spillway at Stick Marsh.

Rain and wind kept me off the water for most of the week, but I was able to get out Sunday and Monday evenings.

With the recent stalled front that has sat on Central Florida for a couple of days we have made up for any drought conditions.

Well, in last week’s report I said be ready and I hope that you did just that. Sand fleas have been hard to find so FishGum was the ticket.

The bait is here, the fish are feeding, and the predators are happy!

There were a few mullet schools along the beach this week but mostly finger mullet. Some had tarpon and sharks in them and some seemed empty. Got quiet towards the end of the week.

The Ocean Obsession which runs out of Sunrise Marina at Port Canaveral has done a great job of keeping their customers on the fish. There have been a number of different species caught like mangrove snapper, dolphin and cobia to name a few.

It’s that time of year again where I start taking more anglers into the lagoon system rather than fish on the beach everyday. The reason is twofold.

The spillway on Stick Marsh was closed this past week for me on the day I went out to fish it. So I did some exploration recon on other areas of the lake.