FLORIDA

Moderate winds this past week have driven bait and seaweed into the palm beaches. Water temperatures have been great allowing for a steady bite.

Snook continue to ambush baits along points and near docks and seawalls. Moving water great areas to find snook, live ...

Nice spring weather continues here on the Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon at New Smyrna Beach Florida, cool mornings, warm afternoons, with a nice spring breeze, schooling fun inshore gamefish Jack Crevalle, Bluefish and Ladyfish are easy targets for light tackle action, also ...

Plenty of sunshine and drag screaming action for anglers this past week. Beautiful weather a few scattered showers to cool water temperatures, the fish are hungry.

Snook fishing provided plenty of action along docks and seawalls using live baits and DOA C.A.L. 3” ...

Spring 2022 has arrived to the intracoastal waterway here at New Smyrna Beach and Mosquito Lagoon Florida, water temperature on the rise, bait fish and game fish moving back north through our area after a winter down south. Jack Crevalle, Bluefish,Ladyfish, Pompano, Spanish ...

Temperatures have been up and down this winter of2022,early season chilly, middle winter warm to mild, and now chilly again, water temps in the backwaters between upper 50’sF and 70’F,as the winter has turned colder again, water clarity has improved with nice clear water, winter ...

Cold fronts are finally reaching us here in East Central Florida at New Smyrna Beach, some cool nights into the 50’s, still waiting for some colder temperatures which will drop our water temps as we move towards winter, the dry season will lower water levels which still remain ...

Fall 2021 is knocking at the door here in East Central Florida, the mullet bait fish run has started, schools of swimming bait will be moving south down the coast along the beach and some of these schools will be coming down the intracoastal waterway into my backcountry area ...

September marks the beginning of the fall bait migration on Florida’s east central coast. Consisting primarily silver mullet, baitfish numbers will be increasing as we progress into October and November. It is hard to predict exactly when or how strong the mullet run will be, ...

Fishbuster Charters Captain Dave Hanson reported, "Jeriah and Amory Whitcraft fished 19 miles west of New Pass on Monday morning, 8/23. They used squid and cut-bait to catch a large number and variety of fish. The couple released six red grouper shorts to 19 inches, a 16-inch ...

Fishbuster Charters Captain Dave Hanson reported, "Andy Wawrzyniak and his fiancé, Daria McCracken, fished a catch-and-release trip in southern Estero Bay on Friday morning, 8/13. The couple released eighteen mangrove snapper. We spotted several snook, but they were being ...

The heat is on and it Looks like it is going to be an active season for summer squalls, but if they stay away fishing along the beaches and in the inlets will remain equally as hot.


The Labrador current (cold water upwelling) as it is known by many anglers ...

Is a fun summer here on the Indian River at New Smyrna and Daytona Beach in the backwaters of Mosquito Lagoon, summer catching has many different species with my style of variety fishing, Speckled Trout, Snook, Black Drum, Redfish, Mangrove Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Ladyfish, ...

Fishbuster Charters Captain Dave Hanson reported, "Carson Trania, his dad Robert, and Carson’s girlfriend, Alyssa Chetti, fished twenty miles west of New Pass on Thursday morning, 7/22. They used cut-bait and squid to catch and release fifteen red grouper shorts to 19 inches, ...

Fishbuster Charters Captain Dave Hanson reported, "Bob and Lauren Peelman and their young children, Cameron and Dylan, fished a catch-and-release trip in southern Estero Bay’s backwaters, using live shrimp, on Tuesday morning, 7/13. They released eight mangrove snapper, ...

Fishbuster Charters Captain Dave Hanson reported, "After Tropical Storm Elsa finally cleared our area, I fished in Estero Bay’s backwaters on Thursday morning, 7/8, with Jacob Siebert, Dave Mungo, and friend, Brandon. They used live shrimp to catch and release thirty-one ...