All up and down the coast everyone is getting geared up and ready for red snapper season, while most are running out, I’ll be running the beach! From north to south, the surf has been hot. Just find the bait and you’ll find the fish — it’s that simple!

Fishing has been pretty good. We’ve spent most of our time on the beach. Plenty of sharks, jacks, kingfish, spanish mackerel and tarpon. Find the bait pods and you will find the fish.

We’re still seeing lots of action in the Fort Pierce inlet and nearshore areas both north and south of the inlet. Breeder snook are cruising along the jetty rocks and seawalls throughout the inlet.

Surf fishing in Central Florida has been impressive this past week. Up and down Brevard County beaches, anglers are reaping the rewards. Pompano catches continue to impress for this seasonal time period. In addition to the pompano fishing, there’s been consistent catches of big snook, whiting and sharks.

The lagoon and the canals around Satellite Beach are holding lots of mangrove snapper, sheepshead, redfish and trout. For the beach, the snook are plentiful for catch and release and a lot of flounder are being caught in the rocks in Satellite Beach.

From the surf, all the way to the deep, the fishing produced well out of Port Canaveral. Shark fishing was really good in about 15/20 feet of water right outside the pier area. Red drum were mixed in the catch, and Goliath Grouper were plentiful, too! Giants. Tarpon and Kingfish have been nearshore on bunker schools. Finally, a normal summer for a change, lol.

Tarpon have continued to remain very thick inside the river and are starting to show up along the beach behind the shrimp boats. The other great bite this week nearshore has been flounder and large jacks up to 35-40 pounds! Look for pogies to start making their way up the beach to the New Smyrna area over the next few weeks. Once here, the beach tarpon will be on fire!

This week has to be one for the record books on the space coast! The water is super clear and warm on the beach. This has made getting bait very easy! Cast net pogies off the beach where pelicans are diving or sabiki threadfins off the buoys or out of pods. Both baits are versatile and will get you in on a hot summer bite.

This week there were some big fish out but nothing huge to the boat. My dad and I fished the sunrise with topwater and got hit by what sounded like a big snook, but didn’t ever get hooked. After that we couldn’t stay away from jack so we decided to net some bait. Within 30 minutes of cast netting our livewells were loaded with croakers, threadfin, and menhaden.

The positive thinking worked! We could not have asked much more out of June. Flat calm seas, plenty of live bait and great fishing from right on the beach to 100 miles offshore. King mackerel, tarpon, sharks and goliath grouper were plentiful along the beach. King mackerel, sailfish, mahi, cobia, wahoo, mangrove snapper, trigger fish, vermillion snapper and lane snapper from 60 ft to 120 ft. Beyond 120 ft produced amberjacks, almaco jacks, grouper, vermillion snapper, mahi, black fin tuna, triggerfish, sailfish and tunas.

It’s been a great week here on the Space Coast and the fishing has been incredible inshore and along the beach. This week, with the westerly winds, I decided to fish along the beach. This time of the year can be spectacular with a plethora of species, and thankfully, things went as planned.

Spent the week off the beach and offshore. Had some good Kingfish action nearshore as well as offshore. Live bait was the key but we did get some Kingfish on soft plastics as well. The snapper bite was pretty decent with some Lane, mangrove, mutton and red snapper. Best bite was on dead bait and live shrimp.