There’s a moment every backwater tarpon angler knows…You’re sliding through a quiet creek at first light, or maybe easing along a mangrove edge in that low, humid stretch just before sunset. The water looks lifeless at first glance; dark, still, almost closed off from the world. Then it happens. A soft push of water, a flash of silver, a roll that breaks the silence.

Knox Robinson plays “money ball” with a dusty, bottom-rack, bargain-bin Yo-Zuri lure for $4.96. The discounted and discontinued 90F Pencil SW still put points on the board!

I have been hitting the water as much as I can! From Northern Merritt Island, down to Long Point, and two days in the salt marshes of Coastal Georgia, I have been catching a ton of fish, and having a blast doing it. So today I decided to do a “spring inshore round up” to summarize my last few weeks, and talk about some trends I have been seeing, as well as sharing a few of my launch spots.

If you’ve been waiting for things to heat up on the Indian River Lagoon, well, here we go! Across Brevard County, water temps in the lagoon system have jumped up here recently in a, and that spring warm-up has the Seatrout bite on fire right now.

Last week I talked about the rising cost of a cast. Things like fuel, travel, and the quiet math we all do before deciding how far we’re willing to go to fish. But there’s another side to that equation. If we’re spending more just to get to the water, it makes sense to lean on lures that don’t just work, but consistently work; and most importantly, work without draining the wallet.

We all feel it at the pump—and most people understand tariffs are driving up the cost of just about everything—but what does that actually mean for fishing? From the price of tackle on the shelf to how far you’re willing to drive or whether you book that next trip, the ripple effects are hitting closer to home than you might think.

Last week we talked about the philosophical side of forward-facing sonar. The mystery of fishing, the uncertainty that makes every cast feel like a tiny gamble. Generation after generation of anglers cast into water filled with possibilities they couldn’t see. Forward-facing sonar pulls back that curtain. Once you start thinking about that shift, a bigger question starts to emerge: If anglers can suddenly see everything… What happens next?

Forward Facing Sonar is a technological game changer in the arena of competition bass fishing — but when a sport built on mystery suddenly lets you see everything, it’s worth asking what that changes. Not just in how we fish, but in why we fish…

I hope everyone is doing well, and enjoyed a warm weekend because this morning was chilly! We are still in that wonky weather pattern of a few warm days followed by a sobering cold snap. It’s quite a roller coaster! This can make fishing challenging, because things are so all over the place.

I hope everyone is doing well. Today I am going to break down a recent trip I took to Lake Mary Jane, this is a lake that forms the northernmost boundary of the “Alligator Chain” of lakes that is technically also connected to the Kissimmee Chain. My goal is to work my way down and fish as much of this chain as I can that is accessible to kayak launching.

One of the Bass I caught from the cove on the NW corner of Poinsett near the SJR Channel.

Hopefully this will be the first of many kayak Bass trips we get to take together. And yes, I did give her a hard time for the using the grippers on a small Bass.

There are a ton of Lily Pads on Lake Osceola, the Frog bite was really good when we were there this past weekend.

A trip south to Lake Ida is not just about Peacock's, it's a great place to catch Largemouth too!

I went back to Fox Lake Saturday, here are 3 of the species I caught Saturday afternoon.

The Bass fishing on the freshwater side took the cake, but this was my most exciting inshore catch on the Eau Gallie River this weekend. I have not caught very many of these guys in […]

While this is certainly not anything to brag about in the size category, I thought this fish was really cool looking in how dark it was. I know that Largemouth Bass are known as Black […]

My boys and I had a blast last night at Wickham Park. We caught 4 StumpKnockers in roughly an hour of fishing. Each one we landed brought tons of joy and excitement.

I caught this on my last inshore trip on the 4th. It was in the shallows off the mangroves close to the radio tower in Downtown Melbourne.

I caught this on my last inshore trip back on the 4th. The warmer weather led to a much better bite.