Randy, Pier Master of Juno Beach Pier, reports exciting Fall crossover migrations. This includes pulses of bluefish and finger mullet, and also a rare showing but welcome appearance of slot size redfish! We’re also seeing resident 6″ to 10″ pompano appear like ghosts in the lightly silty aqua water, and early and late appearances of jacks and ladyfish as large as 6 lbs. Croakers and small sand perch are also showing up in solid numbers.

The presence of karenia brevis cells (red tide) have not yet been found north of Sebastian Inlet in the daily water samples tested by FWC. However, Brevard residents across the county are observing conditions on the beach that are synonymous with outbreaks of the toxic algae, e.g., dead fish, itchy throats, etc. We’ll be providing updates as the situation continues to develop and we welcome you to share any of your own personal observations.

Really awesome fishing this week! From Bull redfish and speckled trout to juvenile tarpon and large black drum the inshore bite remains strong!

The Mullet Run is finally getting going with a lot of bait in the lagoon and the beaches getting some action as well. Inshore bite has been good with a lot of trout as well as slot redfish and some snook.

Water in the Sebastian River is still dirty. There’s a lot of catfish, glass minnows, pinfish and some croakers, ranging from around 8″ – 12,” but no sign of mullet around. We’re still waiting on cool air and water to push the trout and pompano to the Wabasso Causeway. And to all the people affected by Hurricane Micheal — we all have your backs, hang in there, it will get better!

This week has been a very good week, the winds were down and the ocean was fairly clean. Bunker have been in the port almost every day and pretty easy to get for a change. We have had no problem getting kings on 8A and pelican.

Fishing can be tough. Sometimes you can wait around all day without even getting a bite. Whose got time for that? Certainly not Ryan Wood. In his latest video, Ryan goes shark fishing at the beach and shares his secret trick to eliciting a quick strike.

Inshore we have noticed an increase in the trout activity around the docks on both sides of the Indian River. Using top water baits in the morning and swapping over to twitch baits as well as subsurface lures as the sun starts to come up, seems to be the best way to get a positive response from these fish.

We only made it out a couple of times this week because I decided to wait for the winds back off a bit. I fished the central lagoon region with top-water Tony on Friday. As usual Tony tossed his Skitterwalk at schooling mullet and quickly scored a lower slot redfish.

The redfish bite as Sebastian Inlet has been insane. Slots and lots of overs are being caught mainly on finger mullet. Seaweed has improved slightly, but it’s still been pretty windy.