SPACEBYTE REPORTS
Check out the most recent reports submitted by our readers and regular contributors!
Clean Water, Abundant Bait, and Awesome Fishing
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 [...]
Summer Rainstorms Make Fishing Hard.
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 [...]
Canaveral Offshore Forecast: July 2020
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.
The Beach is the Place to Be!
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.
Off The Beach & Offshore
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.
Crushing it Offshore
This week, we absolutely crushed it offshore out of the Port. Too many sails to keep track of every day. Consistently hit limits of kingfish up to 45 lb again. Plus, random cobia and dolphin have been in the mix every day! Bunker have been fairly easy to catch this week, as well. Maybe it's the flat, calm ocean thats helping keep them around right now.
Nearshore & Lagoons
The nearshore bite this week has been very good. Live bait like menhaden, pilchards and greenies have been working very well on a variety of species including tarpon, cobia, Jack crevalle, barracuda and king mackerel. This action should continue to get stronger as we near the next full moon phase.
Beat the Sun for the Bite
Make it short and sweet on the waters as by 10am it’s as I say, it's “AFRICA HOT" outside by then. The early morning bite is still your best bet for a productive time.
Reporting from Fort Pierce
The best bite from Fort Pierce right now is offshore. The Mangrove snapper and Mutton snapper have been chewing. Live and cut bait is catching plenty of them along with most other bottom fish. The Dolphin bite is especially good and I think every boat in the area was chasing them this past Friday!
Shrimp Boats Thick off the Beach
The shrimp boats have been thick off the beach with lots of tarpon, sharks, bonita and a few cobia within the bycatch. In the river, the trout bite is starting to get better the further we get past the new moon and the tarpon bite continues to be very good.
Kings Patrolling the Troughs
In the canals and the river around Satellite Beach we are seeing some really nice tarpon and snook. There has also been a lot of red drum and black drum being caught and of course more catfish than you care to count. We have also seen quite a few stingrays being caught as well. However, the talk of the town is the mangrove snapper bite around the bridges. It is absolutely phenomenal and anglers are catching a lot of keepers using live shrimp and light line for leader.
Sharky Sharks & Tarpy Tarps
Join host Ryan Wood on a summertime kayak fishing adventure targeting sharks and giant tarpon off of the Florida Space Coast.
