SPACEFISH REPORT

The weather has subsided this past week with some beautiful warmer sunny days throughout the New Smyrna Brach area. This weather looks like it will be short lived as they are calling for a cold front to slip in early next week.

Today, I am not going to break down any particular spot, I am going to talk about a color.

It’s a color that will mean nothing to someone who does not fish. I know this because I recently complimented a high school student on their new pair of “chartreuse” shoes.

Good morning all my Sebastian Inlet fans and friends! I hope everyone had a great weekend. The weather was great, but unfortunately the fishing wasn’t so good due to the poor water quality in and around the inlet.

The bottom bite was good for the customers at Fired Up Charters this weekend. Capt. Joe put on a bottom fishing master class. Red grouper, cobia and triggerfish were all caught on this trip.

Another week of wind and dirty water put a slight damper on the fishing. If you can grind it out you can get some decent fish but the bite was difficult most of the week as we had our first real cold from of the year which made for some tough fishing.

The snook and trout bite has been pretty solid lately along mangrove shorelines and around docks. Most of my trips this week were early mornings, with one evening trip mixed in.

The water temp was 71 degrees when we started this morning. The artificial bite has been excellent since the water temps have dropped. The live bait bite is still excellent. My guys went through 8 dozen baits in under 4 hours today.

What a turnaround we’ve had! The recent cold front fired things up along the beaches, and the bite has been solid. People in Cocoa Beach down through Cape Canaveral and Patrick, have been bringing in plenty of whiting, a few black drum, and a good mix of pompano—mostly small ones, but with some solid keepers in the mix.

With the cooler weather, the schools of redfish and black drum should be moving onto the flats. A great approach is a jig head with shrimp for the black drum and redfish.

I fished on both the Stick Marsh and Headwaters this past week. These two lakes that are very close neighbors are so different in many ways.

The weeds and water were clear for the first time in a month or so in Melbourne Beach, so it I finally got some surf fishing in. Conditions were great and the bite was pretty good, too. Ended up bringing home a half dozen whiting for dinner!

Got out for a couple of hours Wednesday morning and fished over near Richardson Fish Camp in the grass and lily pads.

This past week, I focused mainly on the spoil islands, targeting areas out of the direct wind with plenty of bait activity. Smaller paddle tails in the 3–4” range and topwater lures have been the […]

Bass fishing can really become explosive this time of year through the early winter, and one of the places you might want to check out is East Lake Toho. I won’t describe this lake as “overlooked,” but it does get overshadowed at times by big Lake Toho. I like fishing from East Lake Toho because it is a closer drive from Melbourne, and like all of the lakes on the Kissimmee Chain, it holds quality fish!

Sea Leveler Charters out of Sunrise Marina at Port Canaveral made the best out of the last weather window we had to get offshore.