I hope everyone’s holidays and New Years was awesome and safe! Just want to say thank you to everyone who helped me out this past year. Without our fishing community being so friendly to one another all the time, fishing would be way more difficult at times. Part of doing well out here is knowing where they’re chewing and sometimes relying on the help from fellow captains. Thank You!Brevard EditionDec 30th, 2014
Deeper canals and dredge holes in the Merritt Island and beachside canals are good places to start your search for redfish, speckled trout, and black drum on most mornings this month. The cold overnight temperatures usually bring these fish species into the deeper more stable waters located here. Live shrimp are the number one choice for bait danglers fishing here. There can also be very good action when using lures like a white, chartreuse, brown, or black colored HookUp buck tailed jigs. The buck-tail flows and moves well in the colder water, and when combined with Bang! or Pro- Cure scent products, can even out produce live shrimp on some days. Whiting, silver trout, sand trout, and weakfish, plus sheepshead are other species that anglers are likely to catch this month while fishing these deeper areas. If we get a few days of warm weather between fronts redfish may push out onto the shallow flats to sun themselves and forage for shrimps, crabs, and small bait fish along many of the shorelines along the Banana River and also into the Newfound Harbor and Sykes Creek areas.Brevard EditionDec 30th, 2014
Welcome to January and a brand new year of surf fishing the Brevard County Coastline. I am expecting good catches of pompano and bluefish during this month punctuated by a number of cold fronts. I do think the January fishing will be much different from Decembers’ in weather or surf fishing conditions. Watch for the cold fronts coming through followed by warming periods. If you can track the fronts you can be a successful angler during this time. Anglers fishing before and after the fronts manage to take home many
fish dinners.Brevard EditionDec 30th, 2014
Happy New Year, Gang! I hope you’ll spend another year with us at Coastal Angler Magazine. We would not be here if not for you in the fishing community and your support.Brevard EditionDec 30th, 2014
Happy New Year, All! Its real winter by now and unless we’re having odd weather patterns you can bet the cold fronts are lining up. The biggest key to fishing the cold season is timing your fishing trips between the cold fronts. Brevard EditionDec 30th, 2014
Well, 2015 is here and the sight-fishing is on fire! On behalf of LocalLinesCharters.com I would like to wish you all a happy and prosperous New Year.Brevard EditionDec 30th, 2014
December usually triggers one major change in my choices of fishing lures. Don’t think I’m setting aside my trusted favorites entirely. I’ll still be throwing my Exude RT Slugs for a while yet, but at 5 inches in length they will soon be longer than I like for our cool water period. However, the Exude Dart is nearly an inch shorter with a slimmer profile. This lure can be manipulated by the angler to approximate an injured minnow/mullet or a live shrimp, though it actually resembles neither.Brevard EditionDec 19th, 2014
Anglers should start to see more fish making the transition from the shallow flats they have inhabited over the summer and fall months to areas with deeper water like residential canals, and dredge holes. As the waters cool, these deeper areas usually have more consistent temperatures and become favored places for black drum, redfish, and speckled trout. Live shrimp or fingerling mullet on a weighted rig or jig head can be one of the best ways to get these fish to strike. Brevard EditionDec 1st, 2014
