SPACEFISH REPORT

Trout fishing continues to be very good with many larger over 20 inch fish being caught in the Mosquito Lagoon mostly using pigfish.

Snook season opens in about a week and the late summer bite is red hot! Big snook are crushing our live baits right now. Menhaden and mullet are the two top baits they have preferred for the last few weeks.

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Let’s be real — the Fall mullet run is not some endless conveyor belt of bait moving down the coast. Maybe it used to be, in its hay day, but that’s not the reality now, not any more.

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Water on the beach warmed up and the fishing did as well. There are schools of greenies but I didn’t see any mullet despite reports of the mullet run going on that people keep talking about on social media.

Hello there all my Sebastian Inlet fans, fanatic’s and rookies, I hope everyone had a great weekend and got out to fish, it was still pretty good there.

The fishing offshore has remained solid for the customers of Fired Up Charters over the last month. Slow trolling live bait on both Pelican and 8A have produced kingfish, sailfish, wahoo and mahi.

First and foremost, let’s address the elephant in the room. The esteemed Captain Glyn Austin is really sticking to his guns on the mullet run not having arrived yet. I called it last week and I’ll do it again now — that stubborn sonuvagun is dead WRONG! This is not just a few random early bait pods. I’m seeing clouds of bait every dang day, no matter where I go. Beach? Bait. Causeway? Bait! Sebastian Inlet North Jetty? BAIT!!! And literally tons of it. Sorry, my dear friend, but put down the calendar, look at the water, and the answer could not be more clear!

Some lures catch fish because they look incredibly realistic. Others catch fish because they do something that a predator simply can’t ignore. For me, few baits demonstrate that better than what I loosely call the dart bait: a small, slender soft plastic without a paddle tail, curly tail or other appendage doing most of the work.

This past week I mainly focused on night trips, and there was quite a variety of fish showing up. I caught some good snook, redfish, and even a tarpon. Oddly enough, though, I didn’t see very many speckled trout.

Fired Up Charters put on an absolute clinic this week! Their customers have caught BIG kingfish, some random species like rainbow runner, and a HUGE 68 lb. wahoo. These are the drag screaming fish you love to catch while slow-trolling the reefs offshore. Book a trip with them now if you want to give this a try.

The beach fishing is on fire and toothy rockets are blasting off through the bait pods and our slow trolled offerings. Yep, king mackerel have finally hit the beaches in good numbers this week.

Hello all you Sebastian Inlet friends and fans, I hope everyone enjoyed the nice hot weekend we had! This weeks report is a lot better than the last one, mainly because the water has stayed pretty clean on the north side, and throughout the inlet as a whole, and not too bad on the south side.

Spent the week fishing nearshore and inshore. Inshore bite is pretty good — still early and tapers off mid morning as the water temps rise. Snook, redfish and trout are all in the mix. Live bait has been most productive but soft plastics have been working well early morning also.