SPACEFISH REPORT

The Space Coast summer pattern has fully locked in — tarpon are working the beaches from Melbourne to New Smyrna with bait pods driving the bite, while Mosquito Lagoon seatrout have turned on hard this […]

The Ocean Obsession out of Sunrise Marina in Port Canaveral has had their customers playing tug-o-war with some great fish.

Last week’s full moon really slowed down my schooling bass activity. Each day I was out was slower than the days before. By Wednesday, there was no sign of schooling whatsoever.

Like a lot of anglers around the Space Coast, I tend to spend most of my free time poking around the Indian River Lagoon in my kayak, chasing redfish, trout, snook, and the occasional tarpon. I also enjoy kayak bassin’ all over Central Florida. But every now and then it’s good to switch things up, and that’s exactly what I did this the week before last.

The water has cleaned up really nicely, and it has warmed back up to the 84-85 degrees it needs to be for this time of the year, and some more bait fish have shown up too. Greenies around the jetty, and tiny majorra back at the t-dock that the mangrove snapper like to feed on.

This week my wife and I took a quick trip down to Islamorada in the upper Florida Keys. The weather was calm and the water was hot. On most days the water temperature was 91 to 92 degrees and in a few places it hit the lower 93 degree range.

Fired Up Charters has continued to take advantage of the calm seas to put their customers on some quality fish. They are “firing” on all cylinders!

Another good week fishing the nearshore beaches and reefs. We did well on tarpon, jacks and cobia and there are some kingfish mixed in as well.

Fishing patterns across the Indian River Lagoon have remained very consistent over the past week, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Trout fishing has continued to be very good using pigfish in the Mosquito Lagoon. The larger tarpon have shown up on the beach as well as in the river.

The weather has been hot and so has the bite. This past week has been a steady bite through Mosquito Lagoon. We have had several slams this past week with snook, redfish and trout.

Another on the water report today from stick marsh. I pulled into the parking lot. The moon was setting. The sun was coming up the bites much slower for my first hour.

I was on the water just about every morning this week, along with one nighttime trip, and the fishing continued to be very productive.

The surf has been a little up and down this week. Well, not so much up, but it’s definitely ranged from “meh” to “mehhhh.”

The fishing has been good offshore. Slow trolling both Pelican and 8A reefs we are catching kingfish with some dolphin mixed in.