Southern Mayhem Fishing Charters

5.0/5 (228 reviews)

State licensed

401 Ramp Road, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931, United States–

Up to 3 miles

Cocoa Beach, FL, United States

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22 ft

5.0/5 (228 reviews)

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A day on the water with Southern Mayhem Fishing Charters has endless opportunities. Depending on the season, weather conditions, and what species you would like to focus on targeting, Captain Cheyne can put you on fish from up to five miles out of Port Canaveral to deep in the Thousand Islands area of Cocoa Beach.

One of the things that is unique about this charter service is the versatility in locations to fish. Places you can go fishing include the Indian River Lagoon, Banana River Lagoon, Sebastian Inlet, Port Canaveral, and the beaches in between.

Here in the Space Coast, each season presents new and exciting opportunities. It's great to pitch live and artificial baits under mangroves, docks, and other structures within the river. This tactic typically provides trophy Snook, Redfish, Trout, and Tarpon year round. This way of fishing also comes with the excitement of the unknown. You never know when a huge Snook or Redfish is going to come blowing out of a mangrove, and explode on your bait!

In the wintertime and springtime, the water quality in both lagoons typically improves, which allows for some exciting sight fishing for monster reds in the Cocoa Beach area. Sight fish Tripletail and Cobia, or go after Snook.

With Southern Mayhem Fishing Charters, something's always biting. The only question is - when are you coming?

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Catch cleaning & filleting

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Popular features

Fishing license

Live bait

You keep catch

Catch cleaning & filleting

Drinks

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228 reviews

5.0

Boat & equipment

5.0

Captain & crew

5.0

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Matthew White

Texas, US

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Member since 2025

5.0

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Great Experience with an A+ operation

Full Day Trip on June 11, 2025 • 2 adults

Went on an 8 hr trip. Captain East is top notch. He put us on fish all day. His equipment and boat were well kept, clean, and performed great. He was great with my son, patient, knowledgeable, and worked his tail off for us.  We will book with him again if we ever come back. We caught the grand slam and other species as well. My son is still talking about it. Can't recommend him enough. Fishing doesn't mean tou will catch something, but Cheyne will put in the work to give you any opportunity there is to get on fish and give you a memorable experience. A+++++

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Christopher Maier

Ohio, US

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Member since 2026

4.7

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Half Day Trip on May 12, 2026 • 2 adults

Captain Cheyen may be young but he has an old soul. Very knowledgeable about fishing and went above and beyond to put us on the fish. Though we only cought a few that wasn't his fault, the fish just weren't biting. Remember you cant catch fish from the couch.

Robert Suchan

Repeat angler

New Jersey, US

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Member since 2024

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2 trips

5.0

Verified

Great trip. Caught about a dozen fish and had a bag of filets!

Half Day Trip - 3:00 PM on January 16, 2026 • 2 adults

Had a great time with Cheyne who was on time and very personable. There were two of us for a half day PM trip in-shore. We caught a number of sheepshead and a red drum. We had a good time for a reasonable price. Highly recommend. We also fished with Capt Cole in the past and is just as good as well.

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Brian Parker

Tennessee, US

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Member since 2025

5.0

Verified

Awesome Trip Ok Weather

Half Day Trip on December 30, 2025 • 3 adults

The weather man missed the mark but the Captain did not with the miss the mark with finding fish. He put us on fish and as soon as it would die down we moved to another spot. He kept us on the fish the whole time and we caught so many we were throwing them back.

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Matt Price

British Columbia, Canada

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Member since 2026

5.0

Verified

Great Captain!

Half Day Trip - 3:00 PM on January 21, 2026 • 2 adults

Captain Cheyne took us to the money spots! We had a great time fishing all the local species and even had an inshore slam. Redfish, Snuk, Trout and caught some scrappy sheepshead as well. 
Highly recommend this charter company.

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2 Hour Inshore Special

2 hour trip starts at 7:00 AM

US $300