Good week fishing, inshore, and off the beach, but a slow end of snook season in the lagoon.

This week on the Indian River was incredibly productive! The larger female snook are starting to make their way to their spawning grounds, although many can still be found in the backwaters. While their numbers are beginning to thin out, it’s still a great time to target these fish.

This past holiday week has been some banner fishing from Daytona Beach south into New Smyrna Beach and Mosquito Lagoon.

It was a non-nonstop fishing fest this week as I hit the water all 7 days! A few key trends emerged that I’d like to share…

It’s gator season! Gator trout, that is! The last week has been some phenomenal speckled sea trout fishing here on the Space Coast, with some rainfall, lighter winds and a huge influx of finger mullet the fishing has sparked up in general.

Spring has been pretty good but now that we are transitioning into summer, the big trout are chewing throughout the Indian River in Mosquito Lagoon.

Well, it’s the start of tarpon season in the New Smyrna area with schools of bait fish along the beach. Tarpon are starting to show up in the rivers as well as the inlet.

The lack of rain and shifting winds from the south has brought a little dirty water into the north end of Mosquito Lagoon and the backwaters of New Smyrna Beach.