The mullet run continues to be the best fishing action along the Space Coast. Captain Justin and I have had several fantastic days out on the lagoons and near-coastal waters this past week.

Our fishing in July and August has been very interesting this year. We have had some very good days and also some very slow days. This isn’t what I would consider to be the normal pattern for these two months.

Wow! What a crazy week of fishing we had in the Indian River. The aftermath of hurricane Debbie brought cold water upwelling’s to the near-coastal waters, and this pushed lots of “beach fish” into our lagoons over the past 12 days.

Captain Justin and I are sticking close to the inlets at Canaveral and Sebastian this week. Cold water upwelling’s have taken over the near-coastal waters after hurricane Debby rolled past the west coast last week

Our Summertime snook and tarpon bite is as hot as the weather. Tarpon finally showed back up in good numbers this week along the near-coastal waters around Port Canaveral.

It’s summertime and you know what that means for us here at Fineline Fishing Charters? That’s right, the snook fishing is just about as hot as the heat index on most days.

The weather has been cooperating, but it has been hit or miss for baitfish along the beaches over the last week. The reefs and wrecks in 60 to 90-feet of water are holding king mackerel, barracuda, red snapper, and shark when we’ve been able to find baitfish to slow troll over these structures.

It’s that time of year again when anything can happen on a fishing charter along the Space Coast. We’ve been catching big redfish, snook, tarpon and black drum over this past week with our clients.

It’s been a few weeks since my last Spacefish Report. I’ve been guiding down in Islamorada for most of the month of May.

Bait, bait, and more bait. There are excellent numbers of small pilchard’s, pogies and glass minnows in our local waters right now, and these baitfish are the preferred dinner choice for just about every predatory fish that swims in our lagoons.

“If you want to!”

A big daddy black drum caught with Capt. Jim Ross!

Red Snapper soon is just around the corner with dates soon to be announced…

Capt. Jim Ross says he catches mangrove snapper like this one with light leaders and small hooks, which will get you more bites on the mangroves than standard bottom tackle.

Beating the storm, hitting that black drum bite!

The black drum bite is still booming in the Lagoon!

Big barracuda caught with Capt. Jim Ross