There’s a Storm Brewing!

Happy Monday Spacefish!

I hope everyone is doing well on this 7th day of October in the year 2024. We have a big storm bearing down on us, and the weather yesterday was unpleasant to say the least; I had to chaperone our MCC homecoming dance Saturday, and with the weather bing cruddy I was not able to get out this weekend, but I was able to squeeze in a brief solo trip last Sunday. I wanted to do a solo follow up to Long Point, after writing about my father-son trip there.

It wasn’t a great trip for me personally, I’ll go into the details below. But don’t let that dissuade you from going – the area I fished was loaded with bait, I hooked up with two large Snooks and lost; and was under a time constraint due to having an open house at the school that afternoon.

As good as the summer is to me when it comes to fishing; the fall is brutal on me – getting back into the swing of the school year as a member of the faculty combined with football season and I am on the back foot when it comes to fishing sometimes – but hey that is life, and for all of us that aren’t full time professionals; that is the way it is.

For what it’s worth, football is going really well for yours truly at the moment – your MCC Hustlers are currently 5-1, we’re on a 3 game winning streak that has seen us score 131 points over the past 3 games (I guess I get to keep my job for the time being haha), and we’re currently ranked #6 in the state in our classification, and my QB, Brogan McNab leads the state in total TD’s with 20 combined passing, and rushing TD’s in 6 games. He’s also a pretty bad @$$ angler too; once the season is over I’ll go fishing with him and turn it into a report, and who knows, maybe Kayaks By Bo will get him signed on to an NIL deal now that it’s become legal in HS sports.

That’s enough football talk for this week, let’s dive into the report!

Solo Fishing at Long Point

So on this trip, I launched from the same spot I mentioned last week when I was fishing with my boys. I launched from the boat ramp at Long Point Park and immediately went north towards the area listed on google maps as the “mud hole” – which I have to admit, is not the most flattering of names for a fishing spot.

Pictured above are two areas that provided good action for me – unfortunately I lost two very quality Snook on this trip. The first of the morning I hooked up on topwater on the point just south of the island I circled. On the way back in, I lost what would have been a top 5 all time Snook for me. I was fishing a Vudu Shrimp in “natural” with a chartreuse tail. I was using a 30 pound leader, I thought I had her, but she went on a run back in the mangrove roots and I got tangled up and broke off.

I was able to manage a few smaller Snook throwing the Salt Strong Mulligan in the Lebronze color. I haven’t thrown this bait in a while; but with a bunch of Mullet in the area I was looking for a bigger profile soft plastic swimbait, that I could rig weedless and this was the biggest I had. It’s a great bait when you are looking to bomb something weedless across a flat, and it also skips really well under mangroves. It brings a lot of versatility to the table and is a fantastic bait for this time of year.

What’s New at Kayaks By Bo?https://www.shopkayaksbybo.shop/

Hurricane Milton

As I conclude this week’s report, I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the potential harm that is heading our way in Hurricane Milton. I ask that you join me in extending our thoughts and prayers to all that live within the path of this storm, especially our friends on Florida’s Gulf Coast in the greater Tampa area.

After the damaging effects that Hurricane Helene had on the Big Bend and North Florida, as well as Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolina’s I think we’re all ready for this season of tropical storms and hurricanes to be over. While we are not taking the direct hit over here on the Space Coast, I hope that everyone reading this will be kept safe from harms way. Hopefully we do not get much damage from the winds, and heavy rain.

Now would be a good time to pray for Florida, and the rest of the southeastern United States that have already been going through it. The prayer pictured above is what I will have my classes at Melbourne Central Catholic saying these next two days of school. Stay safe friends! Do not panic, but be prepared, and pray for others that may be getting it worse than us!

I hate to end on such a somber note, but that’s just the way life is sometimes. Stay safe, be happy, may your power stay on, and your homes be protected from storm damage. Until next time!