Spring is by far one of my favorite times of the year to fish here in east Central Florida. We are transitioning away from our winter patterns which typically provides us with better weather days to get out on the water. It’s obviously not as hot and calm as the summer months, but there are still plenty of advantageous opportunities to go fishing.
One of the things I enjoy most about fishing is that it brings people together. There is nothing like you and few friends spending a day on the water and coming home victorious with fish in the cooler and stories to tell!
The plan was to hit the surf early Friday morning… that was the plan. However, we enjoyed thanksgiving so much, apparently, we were not ready for it to end Thursday evening so my brother and I decided to stay up to the wee hours of the morning solving all of the world’s problems with Captain Morgan.
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We had several days of calm seas this past week and some of the guys with bigger boats ventured to the Otherside to look for yellowfin tuna. They did pretty well for themselves, to say the least. Adrian Martinez of Handler Fishing Supply in Merritt Island and some friends were among those with really impressive hauls. Nice job, guys!
Capt. Troy Perez happened upon this redfish FRENZY yesterday off Port Canaveral. What an amazing sight!
For the past few weeks we have written about cooler weather and the migratory species that it brings to our coast. The talk has been largely about pompano and bluefish, which are popular targets in the surf this time of year; but, there’s more yet coming to be excited about this season, such as one of my personal favorite species: flounder.
My brother Darren was in town this past week so we decided to hit the surf here in Satellite Beach for some late afternoon fishing. My youngest son Dylan joined us as well. He is a fishing fool and I love every minute of it! I have noticed mornings and evenings seem to be the most productive time lately. We only had a couple of hours of daylight to work with. Before going, we visited Man Overboard Bait & Tackle to pick up some live sand fleas. We had a nice collection of baits with us which consisted of Native Salt Clams, frozen shrimp, Fishbites and live fleas. For tackle we were using a Pompano Rigg’s by Couture set up with white floats and a 4 ounce pyramid sinker.
Dan and his son, Cooper, has a pretty good day fishing in the lagoon around the Mathers Bridge area. Dan reported, “In the morning, the mullet were running hard and we were seeing huge tarpon everywhere! Our tally for the day included two big trout along with lots of small ones. Two huge ladyfish, and we also hooked up on two tarpon but didn’t land them. Coop left his bail open and didn’t realize he had a tarpon on until he saw the line tearing out. Closed the bail but it came off 50 yards away and gone! That’s fishing!”
Spacefish checks in with the Mark Moses Show on Sports Radio 1960AM THE FAN to talk some Space Coast fishing! Tune in every Friday at 4pm to hear the show live!
Here is a photo of Brian Walters, son of Kyle “bass master” Walters, with a 40lb. gag grouper!
Ted Kimmey with his son Graham. They landed this tarpon this afternoon.
Laila caught this nice tripletail while out fishing with her dad!
Steve with a big black drum he caught while fishing with FSFA Grand Master, Chris Pashos. He was points fishing and nailed this one and a couple other fish, which promoted him to “Master Angler” status in the Club. This brute was 41.2 lbs and he caught it on 15 lb test.
Steve Goff of Sunstate Pest Management and crew crushed the red snapper this weekend out of Port Canaveral on his boat, Southern Charm.
Darren & Curly cleaned up on the final weekend for red snapper out of Port Canaveral.
Mark Justine and friends enjoyed snapper time in 180ft!
Many of Fiberglass Florida makes it SNAPPEN over opening weekend of red snapper season!
Congratulations to Fadi Kanazeh! His grand prize boat raffle ticket was drawn at the 2019 Central Florida Shootout Awards Party held at Grills Riverside! Fadi was present at the event and took home a BRAND NEW Nautic Star 215XTS from Boaters Exchange powered by a Yamaha 150 4 stroke motor. The boat also included a jack plate, custom powder coated t-top from BT’s Welding, Power-Pole Total Boat Control, and many other features.
This is Bryce Gagen with the second place dolphin in the FIT Tournament this weekend. They got bumped out of first place by one ounce, crazy!
