Things are really heating up here on the Space Coast, especially the snook bite! Although snook season is closed, they are still a great game fish and can be caught throughout the entire east coast — anglers from land, boat, lagoon or ocean — all have great opportunities to target this awesome fish!

Spring is here and the fishing is falling into its typical spring pattern…

Spring is in the air and the temps are finally climbing! We have had a pretty consistent cool winter here on the Space Coast. With fishing between fronts being challenging at times and brutally windy, consistency is on the way!

It’s tripletail time here on the Space Coast! Tripletail are one of the best eating, fighting, and all around coolest gamefish in my personal opinion the space-coast has to offer.

One thing that never changes much is seasonal patterns. New year, new moon, new anything, most fish and animals in general will stick to their same patterns noted throughout the years. However, sometimes it may be off by a warming trend, a cooling trend or small variables which set these patterns off by days or even a few weeks.

It’s been a brutal windy few weeks across the Space Coast, but luckily the inshore fishery thrives with these kind of conditions.

This week on the Space Coast the weather is throwing us a bit of a curve ball. Luckily, the inshore fishing has been red hot! October is notorious for being a great redfish month and while this holds true, anglers can find a great redfish bite across the entire region.

The first of the month marked the opening of snook season and the bite has been pretty much wide open. With little to no cool down, the snook are thriving with warmer water temps. From residential canals and thick mangrove shorelines inshore to fishing the beaches and inlets the bite couldn’t be much better.

The weather may be hot but the fishing is even hotter! The last few weeks on the Space Coast have been really good, with a bit of a slow start the tarpon fishing is finally getting to be how it should!

Space Coast fishing has been on fire lately! From nearshore action slow trolling the beach tinshore tarpon fishing, but the best of it all has been catching these big trophy snook. Throughout the entire region, the snook fishing has been really, really good. Inshore, the spoil islands, mangrove shorelines and residential docks have been the top producers for these linesiders.

Capt. Alex Hughey took a day off from guiding clients to treat himself to some tripletail.