It’s snook season! The big ones are becoming more user friendly now that the water temps have risen into the mid 70-degree range.

Inshore fishing has turned on this last week. Snook bite on live bait has been pretty good with snook from lower 20” range up to the 40” size and in between.

Fishing at the inlet for has remained slow, hit-or-miss, as always, due to water conditions fluctuating between cool and warm, and clean to silty: This keeps the fish in a state of confusion as to what they should be doing.

The weather has been awesome this past week with some chamber of commerce Central Florida conditions. With this great weather has also brought a great bite through out the waters of New Smyrna Brach and Mosquito Lagoon.

Black drum continue to chew and are still schooled up. The trout have been eating top water very aggressively too. Offshore, there’s been snapper but they have been a little bit smaller.

We’re in April folks, but for the past week or so you wouldn’t know it if you get up out of the house before 7 am – it’s been in the 50’s the past 5 mornings in Melbourne at day break, but since the rain we got on Thursday we’ve had 3 straight days of bluebird skies and the barometric pressure has been way up.

The black drum bite has continued to be very good. Tarpon are starting to show up in the inlet and the big news of the day is cobia along the beach.

This past week has been a little on the breezy side making it a little challenging on the sight fishing but challenge excepted.