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
The month of November was just plain terrible for fishing offshore. The wind was crazy the seas were rough and the water was just dirty. If you did venture out you had to go to deep water to find anything.
The mullet run is just about done but a few schools are around. This is the time of year when we will be looking to bottom fish for the last few fish that are still legal to keep, don’t get me wrong we can still get in some great fishing and rod bending fun. If you do go out start looking for fish around the 60-120ft depthBrevard EditionDec 1st, 2014
The dock pilings, rocky edges and rock jetties within the confines of Port Canaveral usually become havens for sheepshead this month. Anglers using small live crabs- that are usually readily available at local tackle shops- will have the best chances of landing a quality stringer of these tasty fish. Rigged on a small stout short-shank hook these baits are irresistible to the sheepshead on most days. As a general rule the rougher the weather conditions, the better the sheepshead tend to bite. Other species that should be available should include flounder, jack, weakfish, pompano, and whiting. Most of these other fish species will hit live or cut shrimp. Outside of the Port, water temperatures are going to dictate what species will be available this month. If the water temps stay on the warm side (68-72 degrees) anglers should expect cobia, redfish, shark, and tripletail to all be potential catches, especially around pogie pods. If the temps dip below the 68 degree mark, then bluefish, weakfish, whiting and possibly tripletail will be the most likely catches anglers can expect to find.Brevard EditionDec 1st, 2014
