Well..... Here we go starting off a new year, hopefully everyone had a great holiday. The fishing has been ecstatic the last few weeks. We've caught lots of fish and broke some new personal best records to end the year. The inshore bite has been off and on in the lagoon. The bait is plentiful all throughout the river. Lots of finger mullet, pilchards, pig fish and pin fish. The fronts are messing up the bite a bit though. Some days are a little slower than others but that's fishing. We've caught some nice reds, snook, and trout along the mangrove shorelines and the spoil islands using live shrimp on popping corks and chunks of mullet. These are the areas you gotta have patience for. Lots of casting and moving if you're using artificial or just sitting and waiting if we're still fishing. Sebastian Inlet has been spectacular when everything lines up. There has been tons of action on bluefish and Spanish mackerel. A few flounder and pompano too. When the bite is on the big bull redfish are all over you. The snook have been there but like usual picky as all hell. Night has been the best for snook at the inlet the past few weeks. We also had a good tarpon bite right before new years eve right outside the inlet. Surprisingly some of the big Goliaths are still hanging out around the north jetty. You'll see them under the boat on an outgoing tide just waiting for you to hook one of those snook. Unfortunately the Goliaths haven't learned the regulations yet ?. Offshore has had some excellent fishing lately. The waters have been quite warm for this time of year. We've been catching some solid cobia hanging with the sharks and numerous amounts of snapper (mangroves, Lanes, and muttons) on our bottom fishing trips. Not only that there have been kingfish and mahi being caught in 60ft while trolling pink/white and blue/white skirts with ballyhoo.

Santa is being very generous with the fishing lately, the fish are biting and the coolers are filling. Some of my customers might be having fish for Christmas dinner instead of turkey this year. We've had some cold fronts come in which has chilled the water down a bit in the lagoon and the ocean but it hasn't stopped the fish from biting. The lagoon is producing decent amounts of slot reds as well as some smaller snook fishing the mangrove shorelines and not to mention numerous amounts of spotted seatrout. Sebastian Inlet has been pretty hot lately, the big reds are hanging around for the holidays and slot to over slot snook are being caught pretty consistently. Flounder season is open now and I've seen some decent size doormats and a bunch of medium size flounder being caught. Spanish macks and bluefish are also stacked up in and around the inlet. Offshore has had a fabulous snapper bite this week. Some of the lane snapper we've caught are the biggest I've ever seen. There are also quite a few other species hanging around like big mangrove snapper, cobia and kingfish. I've talked to some other captains that have been catching mahi out around 150ft while trolling. We usually don't do many offshore trips during the winter due to the rough seas though. There are a few days still open for December but January is wide open for bookings. Give us a call and let's get y'all hooked up. Due note: the rental house is booked up from February 1st to April 30th.

Well, ladies and gentlemen Captain Shane is back in action again. Been down for about 10 months waiting on a new engine to come in from Suzuki but it's here and we've been hitting the saltwater. From September through November is my favorite time to fish the Indian River. Bait is normally plentiful and the big fish are hungry. We've been doing a lot of scouting the last couple weeks just trying to get back in the saddle again. Caught some decent snook, reds, and trout along the mangrove shorelines. Finally got to jumped in the mix at Sebastian Inlet the other day and landed some solid stud bull redfish. November aka Blowvember as I like to call it, is living up to it's name as the month gets started. The winds are starting to kick up and the temps are dropping this weekend with a little cold front. The colder temps should start pushing the flounder up into the inlet but unfortunately the FWC has closed the harvest of flounder from October 15 to November 30, so no door mats for Thanksgiving. Snook is still open until December 15 though. Give us a call and let's book a day, I'm so excited to get back at it hooking people up on big fish

Well..... it's been an interesting past 6 months. I'm literally still waiting on the new engine to come in. Supposedly the world is in utter chaos due to Covid 19 and nothing can get shipped out or built but whatever life goes on. Anyways down to fishing, I recently inherited/acquired another boat to use while I'm waiting on my new engine to come in. It's a 21ft Maverick Flats boat with a 225 hp Yamaha Vmax. It's been a little tough getting back in the swing of things as well as juggling a full time job doing airboat tours at Camp Holly. We've done a few inshore/nearshore trips in the last few weeks and things have went pretty decent. In this flats boat I'm limited to what I can do with her but we've still been able to produce some decent fish. We've caught some nice sea trout, snook, goliath grouper, kingfish, flounder, snapper, blue runners, and small sharks. If the seas are real nice, we've been able to get out to some of the closer reefs catching snapper, kings, and flounder. If the seas are rough it's been drifting the inlet for snook, redfish, and jack crevalle, or fishing along the mangrove shorelines for snook, redfish, sea trout, mangrove snapper, etc... From what I've been told, hopefully the new engine will be in by the end of the month or mid August. The new airboat is also in the process of getting finished and hopefully that will be getting done about the same time the engine comes in. I want to thank all my loyal customers who have been hanging tight and being patient with me, it means the world to me that you keep in touch and I promise we'll be slaying some fish soon enough.

Snook season is back ladies and gentlemen!!!!! It's time to get the croakers and the hand pick shrimp and catch us some drag screaming slot size line siders "snook". The last couple weeks have been beautiful out, mid 60's to 70's and the fish have been chewing. This last month of January has been one fantastic month for catching big snook, redfish, black drum, spanish mackerel and bluefish at Sebastian Inlet. The snook have been pretty picky though. All they've been wanting are those big jumbo shrimp that we've been cast netting. That being said, it has put the customers in a little bit of a dilemma. Do they want to eat the shrimp or use them for bait? These cold fronts have done a number on us for fishing the lagoon. The fish in the shallower areas are a lot more lethargic than the inlet fish. Also with the water being so clear, if you see them, they for sure have already seen you. The key to fishing these shallower areas at this time of year is making long casts with cut bait and patience. If you're gonna catch fish during these low/air water temps you're gonna have to work for it. The nice thing about fishing the winter season is you don't have to get out so early. If you're going to be fishing the flats or mangrove shorelines you're most likely going to be more productive in the middle of the day. During the winter season we fish deeper areas early and shallow areas later. With snook season opening February 1st, Sebastian Inlet North Jetty is going to be a mad house the first couple weeks. Depending on the weather conditions there will most likely be upwards of 15 to 20 boats all around the jetty, let alone all the jetty fishermen as well. I know it will be frustrating at times getting lines tangled with each other but I can't stress this enough to have respect for each other. We are all there for the same reason. With the cold fronts in and out, the inlet is going to be the go to spot for getting consistent bites. Whether it's snook, redfish, bluefish, jacks, sharks, or whatever else. The inlet is probably going to be the most productive place to fish right now. Unfortunately I'm probably going to have to sit most of this month out. Last week we had an unfortunate mishap with the boat engine and we are still waiting to get it in the shop. Hopefully it's nothing to serious but as anyone that knows, ain't nothing cheap when it comes to boats. I can definitely refer some other awesome captains in the area though. For the time being I'm doing airboat tours at Camp Holly in West Melbourne and having a blast. I've been riding and driving airboats since I was about 7 years old. I grew up in the swamp, going hunting and fishing with my dad nearly all my life. Hopefully in the near future Whatever Turns U On Fishing Charters is going to be stepping into the freshwater division offering bass fishing and bow fishing trips along with the saltwater fishing as well. I hoping to have the new airboat up and running by the end of this summer if not earlier. Once we get the new airboat built it will be a whole new exciting adventure with Captain Shane.

Well another year in the bag and here we go for another exciting adventure. We ended 2020 with some tough conditions. The cold fronts were here, then gone, then back again and the winds have been ridiculous. One day the bite was hot then next not. Some days we were making record numbers catching bull redfish one after another then the next day we were lucky to get a bite. The inshore bite in the lagoon has been pretty slow. The cold weather causes the fish to become lethargic so they really don't feed as well during a front. The water is extremely clear throughout the lagoon. We'd pull up to the mangrove shorelines and spot schools of snook, redfish, and trout but they just don't seem to be hungry. We've been able to pull some ladyfish, trout, some smaller snook and also some tripletail here and there. Slow trolling the channel with silver spoons has produced some decent size spanish mackeral as well. The best part of the month has been big jumbo shrimp. We've been cast netting monster jumbo shrimp in the lagoon. It's a lot of work throwing a 20lb cast net all day but it has produced some tasty treats. Sebastian Inlet has been the go to spot and usually is during this time of year. We've been catching numerous amounts of spotted seatrout, black drum, mangrove snapper, sheepshead, flounder, jacks, bluefish and small redfish fishing the shorelines on the inside, west of the bridge. When the seas and winds cooperate we've been running out around the North Jetty or drifting the channel on an incoming tide for big bull redfish and snook. We started off the first two days of the year catching upwards of 30 snook and redfish within a few hours. A couple days before a cold front and a couple days after a front, normally are the best times to fish. Unfortunately snook season is still closed until February 1st. This time of year the redfish at the inlet are all way to big to keep. We will most likely still have some more cold fronts coming but it just means we'll have to work for it. We might not always catch the monsters but we do keep the rods bent. In memory of one of my best friends and die hard snook fishermen, Blayne Doyle. I now have a bell that must be rung every time someone catches a snook on our boat. That was the one thing he asked me to do before he passed away. Hopefully we can ring the heck out of that bell every trip.