With the recent cold temps it has been a little brutal on us Floridians that are not accustomed to below freezing for long periods of time.

Resilience is one trademark of big black drum. These fish can handle colder temperatures better than many of the other gamefish species that we target in the wintertime here on the Space Coast.

It seems as though our recent spring time weather here in the New Smyrna Beach area has gone to the wayside for upcoming week. Here in the Central Florida area we will be experiencing some much cooler conditions then this past week.

Ok gang, every year there are certain events that happen that I try to predict in advance, but often even us so-called “professionals” don’t get it exactly right. Obviously, my crystal ball isn’t 100 percent correct all of the time. Maybe it needs a tune up. Lol!

Had a really great week of fishing with some beautiful reds and some really large black drum being caught. It looks like we have two weeks of really cold weather which means you don’t have to start your fishing trip at the crack of dawn.

Full week of wind but the fishing was very good despite the cold front early in the week with 57-degree water temps in the lagoon and 15-25 mph winds most of the week.

I only made it out a few times this week, but it was still a productive one. I landed a nice snook and a fairly large winter backwater tarpon.

Fishing for schooling redfish and black drum has been on fire, especially with the cooler water temperatures.