Member since: January 22, 2018
Capt. Jim is a professional saltwater fishing guide based out of Rockledge, Florida.
Hey everybody, as you know it’s fall time, so we’re dealing with windier conditions this month due to the start of our cool front passages through the Space Coast region. All of the high water has left us with only a couple of options in our lagoons.
Spacefish anglers know that the wind has been blowing, but that didn’t keep us from going over the past week. That old adage “the wind is your friend,” couldn’t have been more true since my last report.
Fall fishing is fantastic. The variety of species coupled with the abundance of baitfish has us in the guiding community loving life right now. This week alone using different types of bait like croaker, pogie, mullet, shrimp, and pilchard my clients have racked up an impressive number of fish species.
I have run almost all of my charters along the near/coastal waters over the past month, but with the rough sea conditions we’ve had the past week I spent a lot of time running my charters in the Indian River.
The mullet run is going strong along the Space Coast area beaches. Tarpon, shark, snook, redfish, jack and bluefish are species that you can find feeding on the mullet.
As the ring announcer Michael Buffer says before the main event….IIIIIT’S TIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!!! Hurricane Erin was the catalyst that has started the Fall mullet run along the eastern seaboard.
This week started off with completely unexpected conditions on the ocean outside of Port Canaveral. The seas went from 1 foot at 8 seconds to a northeast 3–4-foot swell at 8 seconds plus another 2–3-foot […]
The redfish continue to please us along the near coastal waters along the Space Coast this week. These fish are grouping up in their pre-spawn aggregation and sometimes we are finding 400 to 500-fish in each school. When they get into this size group they act more like jacks than redfish-attacking everything in their path.
Tarpon season is in full swing here on the space coast and the bite seems to be getting better by the day.
I hope everyone had a fantastic 4th of July weekend last week. I count my blessings that I live in a country where I’m free to go fishing for a living and I owe it all to the men and women who have served and are currently serving in the US military.
“If you want to!”
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
