I’ve lived in the Melbourne area for nearly 30 years, and I’ve lived almost everywhere here — Downtown, Melbourne Beach, Indialantic, Eau Gallie, etc., — not Palm Bay, though, and I never will. It’s always been gross, and somehow it manages to just keeps getting grosser. I don’t even like stepping foot in Palm Bay — let alone smelling the city’s collective poo pile — and now I gotta somehow figure out how to enjoy recreating in it. I just… can’t.
What a nice week we had here at Fired Up Fishing Charters. Very happy customers and cooperative fish. We had kings and cobia with an excellent mixed bag of bottom dwellers. All types of species from beeliners to triggers. Scattered Cobia and Amberjacks. We also got lucky with some beautiful days! Cleaner water and less winds. When the factors line up, you’re gold.
Hit the beach on Saturday to see what’s happening in the surf. I’ve had poor luck lately finding sand fleas, so I decided to try the artificial Gulp variety. I wasn’t impressed, and neither were the fish.
Fellow anglers, prepare to howl at the moon! It will FULL on Wednesday night and the solunar forecast predicts the month’s peak fish activity on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. According to the solunar theory, the best times to fish are:
I just had the pleasure of going on a bomb ass family vacation in North Carolina and thought I’d share a little about our amazing trip. My fam booked a 9 day stay at the old “Sweetwater Trout Club” on Airbnb. It’s an amazing property bordering national forest with water falls, rivers, hiking trails, trout holes, and all the wilderness you could handle, all accessible by foot from the cabin.
If you believe in Moon Voodoo, this is the time of year to try and capture the magic. According to the Solunar Forecast, we’ve got the PEAK of season fish activity this week. More specifically, today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) aligning with the full moon.
The moon and stars may be aligning just right over the next few days to hit limits on pompano. Along with the Full Moon, the solunar calendar forecasts the month’s PEAK fish activity on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I hit the surf in Melbourne Beach at Ponce de Leon yesterday. It was outgoing tide at about 6pm when I got a line in the water. Maybe it was just the sun going down, but the water didn’t look as clean as it did on nearby surf cams just a few hours earlier. There were enough weeds in the water to be annoying, but it wasn’t too bad and seemed to get better as the tide went out. Sand fleas were everywhere and abundant.
The Spacefish team was at the Port Canaveral weigh-in for this past weekend’s Central Florida Shootout. We saw some really nice fish hit the scales, including the category winners for grouper (Katie O’Brian – 46.1#) and wahoo (Ed Wilson – 39.6#). View the full results in the link below. Thanks to all that came out and participated!
No matter how you feel about law enforcement, you’ve got to love this hilariously awesome “Fishing for Fugitives” campaign from Sheriff Wayne Ivey and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. That’s gold.
This 46 pounder hit the scales at Port Canaveral and took home first place Grouper in the Central Florida Shootout.
A few nice fish caught with Capt. Alex Hughey, weighed at Port Canaveral for the Central Florida Shootout.
Friend of Spacefish, John Durkee, got himself some red snapper on opening weekend of the 2018 season.
Fired Up Charters has a big day offshore out of Port Canaveral!
Kyle McConnie got a few mangrove snappers in the surf at Magellan in Satellite Beach.
Jess caught this pinfish in the Banana River Lagoon — perfect bait for a hungry snook!
Matt admires the spotted seatrout he caught in the Banana River Lagoon.
I went offshore this past Friday with pro bass angler, Lionel Botha, who is also founder and chief product designer of Halo Fishing…
Another big fish caught on Capt. Brent Mead’s fishing trip to the Bahamas!
