We continue to have high water with the flooding. And gotta be honest, a lot of it smells pretty bad too. It does have a septic-like smell, especially towards the Sebastian River area. I was expecting the fishing to be absolute trash but to my surprise, we had an absolutely amazing week of fishing. There was Spanish mackerel, bluefish, and jack’s, large ones, absolutely demolishing bait up and down the channel from Melbourne Beach all the way to Vero Beach and I’m talking absolutely demolishing it all day long!

The pompano have made their way to the river, although it’s really hard to target them with all this dirty water. The real stars of the show this week were snook, big ones and in numbers. Not very much luck on the outgoing tide and that’s including the backcountry waters but once the incoming made its way, the bite turned on and it was hot using lots of live mullet in various sizes and using mangrove shorelines and oyster beds as structure points.