SPACEFISH REPORT

By the time we reach the dog days of summer, bass fishing in Florida can feel like an endurance test. The sun gets high early, the air feels like you just opened the door to your dryer midway through drying a load of wet towels, and much of the shallow water that looked promising during spring can suddenly seem lifeless.

The fishing has been pretty good lately, and the lagoon is starting to show some signs of the fall transition.

Beach fishing was good this week. Plenty of tarpon, sharks and jacks along the beaches. Inshore is decent, but it’s an early bite.

Hello all you Sebastian Inlet fans and fanatic’s, I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend. It wasn’t too awful bad, hot, but not as hot, and a few storms around. The fishing at the inlet has held on for another week, still pretty good for several species of fish.

This week in the Melbourne Beach surf, sand fleas remained hard to come by. At least for me — until Sunday when they made themselves abundant in number and in good size. Maybe they were triggered by the full moon…

The bite throughout the New Smyrna Beach area continues to be strong as we approach the end to August. We have been boating several different species both in the shallows of Mosquito Lagoon and also throughout the Intracoastal.

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!