The fishing has been HOTT!!!! Finally we were able to get a decent week of weather to fish and the last week of November was one you didn't want to miss. It was one seriously windy month almost all of November. We've had a record year for hurricanes and even though they didn't hit us directly we still felt the effects around the whole state of Florida. Rough seas and high winds made for a lot of video game time at Captain Shane's house. November 23rd was the first day we got to get out to fish since the 31st of October, This last week of November was one for the books though. The snook and redfish bite were off the chain at Sebastian Inlet. It took no time at all to get our first hit as soon as the bait hit the water. Not only has the bite been good but also getting keeper slot fish as well. Most of the time at the Inlet the snook and reds are to big to keep but not this week. We had our limit in no time at all. They were eating almost anything we threw at them. Those are the days that make it easy fishing. In a way it's kind of bad when it's that easy because then my customers get spoiled and think it's always like that. Sometimes it is easy and other times we gotta work for it. Other than the Inlet, we also did a lot of inshore fishing along the mangroves, spoil islands, and docks which produced a numerous amount of catching. Lots of spotted seatrout, ladyfish, mangrove snapper, and slot redfish. As for the baits, we used a little bit of everything. Artificials, live & dead shrimp, greenies, cut bait, live mullet, and anything else I could think of and all of it produced. Some flounder have been getting pulled in lately but not big by numbers yet. We were able to get a couple the other day on live greenies though. There's going to be a little cold front coming in this week that should kick those flounder into gear so hopefully we'll have a decent flounder bite this month. The snook, redfish, and trout should still be very active the rest of the month but due note December 15th is the end of snook season until February 1st 2021. Snook will be catch and release until the season opens again. I will also be looking forward to targeting some sheepshead this month as well. Just to let everyone know, we have a great Christmas special going on until the end of the year. Offering 40% off on gift cards for the 2021 fishing season until December 31st 2020. This is an excellent Christmas gift for anyone in the family, so jump on this fantastic deal while there's still time. Gift cards are available for purchase on the Whatever Turns U On Fishing Charters website. Hope everyone had an excellent Thanksgiving.

That's right Blowvember is what I call the month of November. This month seems to have the usual weather of very windy days and rough seas. As we ended October the fishing was fantastic. We were right at the end of our fall mullet run and everything seemed to be hungry. The winds were already picking up but we made the best of it and pulled in some solid catches. The inshore bite in the lagoon has been excellent. We've been catching lots of seatrout and slot redfish along the mangrove shorelines and around the spoil islands as well as some decent size flounder. Live shrimp with a popping cork has been the go to bait in these areas. As the winds kick up and the water temps cool down I also like to target them sneaky sheepshead with fiddler crabs along the bridges. Excellent excellent tasting and a fun fighting fish too. Now on to the big girls of Sebastian Inlet. It's no secret but if you want consistent big inshore fish, well the inlet is the place to go this time of year. Finally the big reds have shown up and should be around up through March. This time of year these bull redfish range anywhere from 35" to 50". They are very powerful and will definitely test your tackle. There are a couple ways we fish for these reds as well as the snook at the inlet. If the seas are calm enough, still fishing live pigfish, pinfish, croakers, or mullet around the North Jetty is great. The other way is drifting the channel with the same baits, but be careful on how much weight you use cause you'll lose lots of tackle. Many times you'll catch a whole lot of jack crevalle while drifting as well. The jacks have been full up in the inlet lately which has produced lots of action. Most locals say jacks are junk fish but I've been having a lot of customers tell me they really enjoy eating them. The snook bite has been pretty good as well. It's just finding out what bait they want that day and setting yourself up correctly to present it to them. Lately we've been getting all different sizes of snook. They've been measuring anywhere from 20" up to 40" and some fat keeper slot fish too (28" to 32"). Looking forward into the month, the flounder should start to come into the inlet towards late November. Hopefully these winds will calm down some but if not I'll just have to deal with it. Also the rental house is up and running so we have you covered for your stay as well. Hope everyone had a great Halloween and looking forward to an excellent Thanksgiving and hooking y'all up on some monsters real soon.

The Fall and Winter season is all about inshore fishing. October is one of my most favorite months to fish the Indian River Lagoon and Sebastian Inlet. The mullet run is still in full swing and we've been having lots of action inshore lately. The lagoon has been fantastic from Turkey Creek down through Wabasso area. We're catching lots of snook, redfish, trout, and jacks fishing the spoil islands and mangrove shorelines. There's been an abundance of fresh water coming out of of the creeks and Sebastian River due to the amount of rain we've had in the last few weeks. This in turn keeps the mullet schools more congregated towards the river. The water level in the lagoon has also been unusually high this month which makes it a lot easier to get into those shallow areas with my bay boat. Go to baits have been of course live mullet, cut ladyfish, cut mullet, and big live shrimp. As far as artificial baits go, Slayer Inc. paddle tails in the rootbeer/ chartreuse or silver mullet color, Mirrolure top pup for early morning topwater, and a great search bait is the infamous gold spoon. Sebastian Inlet has been on fire with slot to just over slot redfish lately. We're starting to get some of the big bull reds but they usually don't come in heavy until the end of October. Most of our luck for the reds has been using big live shrimp, pilchards, and finger mullet around the jetties. The snook bite has been off an on. Early morning has seemed to be the best for the snook bite. We mark the schools on our fish finders but it's just whenever they feel like eating. You gotta be patient and pick your tides right cause the bite will turn on and turn off within an hour. I like to bring a variety of live baits when fishing the inlet. Pigs, pins, croakers, and hand pick shrimp are the usual choices. Like I've said before, those inlet snook are the only fish I know with a dinner menu. Not only snook and redfish but the jack crevalle have been thick out the mouth of the inlet. Fun fighting and will definitely wear out your arms in no time. We've also got the occasional goliath and some nice 10 to 15 lb cubera snapper too. Unfortunately, the seas have been pretty rough the last few weeks so fishing the mullet schools along the beach by boat has been tricky. There's been big tarpon, jacks, snook, and reds hammering the mullet schools but getting to them has been tough. As far as offshore goes I think I might be stepping away from it for awhile. The costs are high to run a trip and the beating the boat takes as well as myself is pretty relentless. I'm most likely going to step away from offshore fishing until I get a bigger boat that's made for that water. I'll still run out but only on very nice days until that new boat comes into the works. Big thanks to all my customers and I look forward to fishing with each and every one of y'all again.

The Fall season has finally started and so has the fall mullet run. The mullet are up north near Cape Canaveral right now but will soon be in Sebastian. There are big schools in the lagoon showing up from Turkey Creek to Grant, FL as well. The mullet run is so much fun. It brings all the predators out which produces a lot of action for us anglers. The inshore bite has been really good the last few weeks. We're catching lots of smaller snook and slot redfish fishing along the mangrove shorelines. We've also been fishing some docks and underwater ledges loading up with some nice medium size mangrove snapper when trying to get a bag of fillets. Most of the time I have my customers throw live bait and cut bait depending on their level of casting skill. You can easily lose a lot of lures fishing the mangroves if you don't know how to skip a bait. The lures I love to use this time of year are Slayer Inc. paddle tails with a 1/4oz jig head or the go to DOA shrimp. For top water I like to throw a Mirrolure Top Pup in the early mornings when it's glass flat. Sebastian Inlet has been pretty busy lately with the opening of Snook Season on September 1st. It's not a secret fishing spot and everyone knows that's the easiest place to pull in a slot snook. Unfortunately if you want to catch fish at the inlet this time of year you have to be aggressive. Don't be a jerk but you gotta be aggressive. It's a never ending battle between the jetty fishermen and the boaters but try to give some respect to each other, we're all fishing there for the same reason. For those of you that don't know, snook have to be between 28" to 32" tip to tip in order to keep. I'll say this, the inlet is the only place that I know where the snook have a dinner menu. One day they want this bait the next day they want what you don't have. Now everyone loves catching snook for sure, but the fish that I look forward to this time of year are the big bull redfish and yes they are here. The bull reds are just a different type of fight. They pull and pull and just don't want to give up. We can't keep the big ones, they have a slot size between 18" and 27", but they're sure fun to battle with. Those big reds will be around up through February. Another prize fish that's being caught are cubera snapper. Cuberas are like a mangrove snapper on steriods. I haven't got one yet this month but I've seen a couple of the other guys get lucky pulling in a few nice ones. As far as offshore goes the seas have been excellent and the fishing has been really good. The last few trips I've taken we've bottom fished all over from 60 ft out to 130 ft of water. We've been catching nice lane snapper, triggerfish, vermilion snapper, sea bass, sharks, almaco jacks, bonita, big kingfish, cobia, mutton snapper, and of course big red snapper. Live shrimp and greenies have been the ticket on the bottom for the snappers and freelining live grunts or chunks of sardines on top for the kings. For the cobia I'll say this, "bring in the sharks". If you bring in the big sharks the cobia will follow. For this upcoming week it seems the weather is going to put a damper on getting out. Looks like we've got big waves and howling winds from these tropical systems so probably gonna be doing a lot more river fishing this week.

Hello to all my fishing followers and welcome to the boiling heat of August. Yes, it's been hot, roasting boiling hot. We ended July and began August with some serious winds and the hurricane Isias, that thankfully just stirred up our ocean for a bit. I took the last week of July off for family time and went lobstering out of Sebastian and did some freshwater snorkeling at Alexander Springs. I seen some awesome stuff while scuba diving on some of my fishing spots like snapper, grouper, sheepshead, and all the other beautiful tropical fish down there. I have to say it's pretty cool to go down and actually see what we're fishing on down there. We've had some really nice seas this past week and we've been able to hook into some really nice fish on our offshore trips. On one trip we pulled a 21 lb blackfin tuna, a bunch of cobia, kingfish, and snapper. Then a second trip with a couple big kingfish, lane snapper, barracuda, mangrove snapper, and bonita. I've been freelining frozen sardines for the kingfish and bonita and using live greenies on the bottom for the snapper. When the cobia come around I like to throw whatever live bait I have at them. They seem to really like pinfish and the greenies. I know a lot of people have been complaining about the sharks lately and yes they are a nuisance but they do bring the cobia with them this time of year. Chum, chum, and more chum, bring them in is my suggestion. The Inshore trips have been very productive as well. We've been fishing along the mangroves with greenies, finger mullet, and live shrimp and catching numerous amounts of smaller snook, redfish, and mangrove snapper. I always tell my customers when we're fishing the mangroves, "if you're not getting hung up, then your not close enough". Like I said at the beginning it is hot, so get out early. The water temps in the middle of the day on the flats have been up in the 90's. The snook bite at Sebastian Inlet has been awesome on the outgoing tide using croakers. Croakers are pretty much my go to live bait for most of the year. The incoming tide has been extremely clear this past week. You almost could just look down and find where the fish are. The Goliath grouper are not so bad anymore, I think most of them have finally went back to their homes offshore now. I took the GoPro off the North Jetty and videoed hundreds of schooling snook and only seen a couple Goliaths. September 1st starts snook season and soon after the mullet run should begin and that means crazy action everywhere. The seas are looking good for the next couple weeks so the fishing should still be pretty fantastic. The rental house will be available starting September. I will get pics and info on the website asap for bookings and package trips.

I want to apologize for my late July fishing report, but we have been super busy this month. The fishing has been amazing along with some great catches and wonderful memories. Our red snapper season went fantastic despite the crazy rough seas that went along with it. It is so funny how there are spots that we fish all year long and never see a soul, but as soon as red snapper season opens there are 10 boats sitting right on your spot. The second red snapper day was also tournament day for the 2020 Central Florida Shootout. The tournament normally takes place in May but due to Covid 19 it was postponed. They opened up a new category, paying out $10,000 for the biggest red snapper. Unfortunately we were not able to take the glory for the big bucks but my 11 year old son did win 1st place in Jr. Angler Offshore and took 2nd place for the biggest dolphin weighing 21.6 lbs. I have to admit I had a few tears come down when he walked up on stage, just one of those proud dad moments. Also right at the end of June I got the privilege to take out the DDR fishing team to do some offshore filming. What a fun experience that was with an awesome group of guys so I can't wait for the video to come out. Other than that offshore has been great as long as the seas cooperate. Trolling has not been very productive lately but we have been doing excellent with bottom fishing and free-lining live baits and dead sardines. Scattered weeds and rough seas have made trolling a little difficult. Get the chum bag flowing and everything eventually comes up looking for a free snack. The problem with chumming is the sharks will show up too. Great for the shark fanatics but bad for the snapper/grouper fishermen. We've been catching most of our mahi and kingfish with the free-lining technique. On the bottom we've been getting some nice mangrove snapper, lane snapper, red grouper, sea bass, and of course red snapper as long as the sharks don't get them first. I don't typically target sharks but the ones we've been catching are bulls, sandbars, sharpnose, and nurse sharks. We've had some very windy days these last couple weeks so gotta catch what you can with the conditions. The inshore bite has been real good at Sebastian Inlet on the outgoing tide for snook but this time of year is hard at the inlet because the Goliath grouper are so thick. They sit right under your boat and wait for you to bring them dinner. The lagoon has been pretty successful as well. Fishing the mangroves early in the morning has been the most productive. We've caught numerous amounts of snook, redfish, and seatrout free-lining live finger mullet and live shrimp on popping corks. We're also having some good success on keeper size inshore mangrove snapper along the mangroves, docks, and open water ledges in the river. Lastly, there have been monster tarpon running the beaches from Vero Beach all the way up to Cape Canaveral. They seem to like slow trolling live baits and have been hitting the artificial baits as well. I will be down under the water scuba diving this last week of July preparing and scouting for the mini lobster season coming up, so I'll let y'all know what I see down there. I just want to give a big thank you to all the people still coming down and supporting my business despite this pandemic. We will soon be offering lodging and package deals in our new rental house as well. The house is close to the boat ramp, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, with a pool.