So just when we thought that Spring had arrived here in Central Florida ole Winter had to make another appearance. We had a small front dip down over the weekend bringing wind, rain and cooler temperatures across Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach and Mosquito Lagoon.

This past Friday Valentine’s Day, February 14th. This date marks a special anniversary of sorts for me, as this was the day my family and I moved to Melbourne in 2020. Weirdly enough that date was also on a Friday that year.

As we continue with some beautiful weather again this week the fish still continue to chew well. The weather here in the New Smyrna Beach area has been great with highs in the low 80s and calm winds.

This past week has been an exciting one on the water! As a new fish finder owner, I’ve been learning a lot about the underwater landscape and behavior of our local fish species.

The weather is the same but the bite has definitely changed from last week. The giant schools of black drum we reported last week all but disappeared this week.

The story this week has been all about the black drum with large schools of both slot size and breeder size tailing in the flats and eating a well placed shrimp.

It seems almost as though winter has completely stopped and Spring is here in Central Florida. Although I believe we still have some more winter weather coming before it’s all said and done.

It’s been a few weeks since we have had anything of substance to report, but this past week we got back out on the water and had some fantastic black drum action.