We went fishing offshore yesterday, east of Sebastian Inlet, and caught a bunch of fish including several short cobia. We didn’t have a net, so we ended up losing two keepers while messing around at the rail trying to gaffe them. Trying to stick a 15 pound fish with a gaffe made for yellowfin tuna is not easy! On the bright side, we are now convinced that cobia really like the clams.

This week has been some fantastic tarpon fishing! From inshore to offshore the tarpon bite couldn’t have been better! As for the beach, we have finally had some consistent bait activity, from some mullet pods to larger pogie pods and this has made for some great fishing.

Our first attempt to do some surf fishing was at Ponce De Leon beach, but there were way too many surfers to fish. Next, we headed a bit south of Sebastian Inlet and caught some catfish and few other random species.

Hurricane Florence bore down on the east coast last week and we can still feel lingering effects of high swells to Space Coast’s beaches. Most surf fisherman have been forced to resort to the Cape Jetty or Sebastain Inlet to catch that slot snook! As for me, I rarely take part in that fiasco and would rather take the time to get ready for the coming fall mullet run and Pompano season! Let’s just cross our fingers in hopes that these forming weather patterns don’t ruin it for us this year…

Monday I was joined by Tom, a regular client/friend who often takes advantage of my “scouting trip charters.” If you are a local angler who can go fishing on MY schedule you might want to sign up. The discounted fee is attractive and the particulars are posted at the bottom of the home page on my website.

The recent hurricane we had off our coast has made the water very dirty which is causing our sharks, tarpon and king mackerel to spread out and not be in any one focal point. We recommend getting live baits where you can and trolling them around the bait in the dirty water. A recommended technique is putting some weight on your line to get your bait lower in the water column.

We fished inshore most of the week with a good bite on the Storm 360 GT Coastal baits and Rapala Twitchin Minnow. We fished the shorelines with bait pods and were able to get some Snook, Trout and redfish along with some Jack Crevalle and Ladyfish.

Well, I would love to tell that the fishing was epic this past week, but that’s just not the case. That’s also what’s cool about Spacefish — they will report if it’s good or bad. Unfortunately, this past week was just terrible for us.

In the canals and around Mather’s Bridge we are still catching mangrove snapper, trout, a few snook and some small reds.

The snook bite at Sebastian Inlet is still pretty good. Live croakers are the go to bait for these fish. You will probably catch some redfish to while chasing your slot snook. There are quite a few tarpon being caught in the river on live pinfish and shrimp.