Spring is usually one of the best times of the year for giant seatrout, but what’s really had my attention lately is the nearshore fishing around the inlets, from Ponce to Sebastian, even down to Fort Pierce and everywhere in between, the fishing is all pretty similar. Most fish are on edges of the rock jetties and drop-offs in search of large live baits, including jumbo shrimp, pilchards, pigs and pin fish. Match your bait with the appropriate hook from 3/0 circles for shrimp and threadfins to 6/0 j style hooks for your larger thicker baits like mullet and pin fish.

Spring is in the air! Finally a break from the cold, windy, and down right miserable weather! Spring is here and providing multiple options when it comes to fishing the flats.

This week, and really the last few, have been spectacular fishing, to say the least. The snook and trout bite has really been off the charts! Even on the windy and cooler days the snook have really been responding well.

What a wild month we have had! It seems Mother Nature can’t make up her mind. Cold, windy, hot and calm — this has been one weird winter!

Sheepshead seems to be the talk to the town! I have had numerous requests on information about how to catch sheepshead! Most everyone knows that this time of the year sheepshead are a popular target. These fish make great table fair, reproduce quickly, and give for a pretty good pull on the line!

Where oh where have all the redfish gone?! It seems as if all of our redfish have mutated into black drum! I’d be lying if I wasn’t a little concerned about this lack of redfish. Although, winter usually isn’t the best for redfishing, this year has been exceptionally slow, which is why I press harder and harder in encouraging everyone to catch and release!

Windy and cold means think deep! This week is expected to get really cold! If I said the fishing has been easy I’d be lying, between the crazy winds, up and down with temps changing the fish don’t really seem to know what to do!

It’s that time of the year! Throughout the entire region from Sebastian to cape canaveral the beach is finally turning on. Weather permitting typically on northern or westerly winds this time of the year the beach usually provides lots of opportunities from tripletail, pompano, whiting, to one of the common favorites the bull redfish, this week the redfish seem to be holding around the baitpods in 10-20 feet of water and are hungry for just about anything you can get to the bottom.

Merry Christmas! This week has been a roller coaster with the weather and the fishing! Cold then hot, and rainy and windy. Mother Nature can’t seem to make up her mind. But with the wild weather, the one fish that still remains consistent is the black drum.

This week I turned my attention to fishing the beach. With the calmer seas I was able to stay a hundred yards off the beach or so and was very happy with what I found.

Capt. Alex Hughey took a day off from guiding clients to treat himself to some tripletail.