Central East Region

By Captain Tom Van Horn We have all heard the adage, “If a frog had wings, it wouldn’t bump its butt when it hops”. Well if is the key word when trying to predict fishing quality and conditions on the Indian River Lagoon Coast in July. Two major phenomena can directly impact our offshore waters during the summer, and predicting their influence is anyone’s guess. First, during the early ...full report

Another Day, Another Dolphin. Our bottom fishing trips out of Port canaveral have been bringing us at least a Mahi a trip back. While we are anchored over structure, we always chum, and flat line a few baits for whatever swims by. This past Friday we managed to boat 15lb young bull Mahi, and 2 nice "Fat Alberts" (False Albacore). This of corse aside from the bottom catch. A few additional ...full report

Summertime Fishing at its Finest One of the great things about the summer inshore fishing along the Space Coast is the wide variety of species roaming in our shallow-water lagoon system. So much variety, in fact, sometimes it is hard to narrow down our targets during the half-day and full day charters. We had a number of trips this past week where we set out to target one species and wound up catching ...full report

INSHORE So the song says.....Feelin' Hot - Hot - Hot! That sorta sums up the weather around the Treasure Coast this week. Getting out early in the mornings or late in the evenings has a more profound meaning lately around here. Look out for afternoon thunderstorms this time of year, too. The best bite will be at first light or late evening as things ease off a bit. It's summertime! July ...full report

INSHORE The inshore fishing this week has been a little on the slow side with all the hot temps and the shortage of live shrimp. But, the early risers have managed to find a good Trout bite when using top water baits in 2 to 4 feet of water and fishing around the spoil islands to the north of the North Bridge. There has also been a good late afternoon Trout bite when using live Pigfish. The catch ...full report

Offshore about ten yards with schools of Pompano and Whiting searching the backwash from the shore break for crustaceans. A short cast into this trough, tighten the line just enough to feel the weight on your line, and minutes later, you feel the familiar "TAP TAP" of tonight's dinner taking your bait. You set the hook and reel your prize in, quickly rebaiting your hook(s) to get your line ...full report

Father's Day morning the wife and kids slept in and let Daddy have a little morning surf fishing unwind time. Was a perfect day, light surf with times of glass, 3-4 ounces were holding most of the day. Was tons of Sharks out today, first fish i reeled in (whiting caught on the only sand flea I could find around) was missing his rear half. Used the rest of him for cut bait and also used some ...full report

Went out in Lake Monroe 6am this morning. Trolled under and around power plant off north Nnterprise Road, using black and blue June bug worms nailed 3lb Largemouth Bass 5 min into start, nailed a couple more then had to go to work.  ...full report

Went to the NMZ today, on the water by 6:00am (don't really like being on the water that early becouse of the gator that lives at the launch) First cast of the day landed a 27-in Trout. After that it was pretty slow... a few small Sheepshead, schoolie sized Trout, and the largest Puffer Fish I've ever seen. Around 8:00 I decided to paddle down to the restricted cove, because everytime ...full report

Got there about 10am using Shrimp as bait caught 5 nice fish within an hour. I'll upload some pictures as I'm not sure what type of fish they are but they sure tasted good! ...full report