These past few days have been really beautiful here on the Space Coast. It has allowed me to get out along the beach and chase the variety of fish that have shown up after this last cold front. If you like variety, now is your time to get it. We still have some warm water species like snook, redfish and speckled trout along the beaches, but we also have others like pompano, whiting tripletail, and black drum that have recently shown up with the drop in water temperature. Shrimp on a jig head or sliding sinker rig is the easiest way to catch most of these fish, however on some days, the pompano and redfish will only eat sand fleas. In fact, you can actually see the redfish washing up in the waves along the shoreline around the tip of Cape Canaveral trying to catch the sand fleas as they move about in the surf break. In some cases, they look like an orca trying to get a seal off the beach, because they slide their bodies up onto the sand and then wiggle back down into the water.

It’s a great time to get out and fish so if you’re looking to do just that, please give me a call and we’ll find some time to get you out on the water and get your fishing rod bent.