Fishing Reports by Captain Doug Blanton
About The Author: Captain
Company: Light Tackle Flats Fishing
Area Reporting: Cocoa Beach - Titusville - Port Canaveral
Bio: Cocoa Beach fishing guide, sight fishing redfish, sea trout, snook and tarpon on the Banana River in Cocoa Beach, Port Canaveral in Cape Canaveral and Indian River in Titusville fishing guide and 45 minutes from Orlando, Disney World and Universal Studios Florida. Full time Central Florida flyfishing guide. Offering light tackle fishing trips with spinning and flyfishing for red fish, gator sea trout, snook and tarpon on Florida's Space Coast. Orlando Fishing guides cater to both the experienced and inexperienced sight fisherman. If you're looking for a guide that will work with children, I'm your guide. There is no greater thrill for me than to help out our next generation of fisherman hook into a memory that will last them a lifetime. So, if you're looking for a Cocoa Beach fishing charter to help you catch a memory give me a call and let's go sight fishing redfish. You've seen it on TV now is you chance to experience it for yourself. Capt Doug Blanton is a native of Cocoa Beach that specializes in sight fishing with light tackle flyfishing and spin fishing gear on the banana river in Cocoa Beach fishing guide, and the Indian River in Titusville fishing guide.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] The Bull are Charging!The red fishing has been great over the past week. We have a few nice schools of bull reds starting to work the flats here in Cocoa Beach.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] We have had some interesting days on the water over the past month. The fishing was pretty good. The reds were tailing and the gator trout were on the flats. Then it rained.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] The fall bait run is a little early this year ant things are starting to go nuts. The tarpon I have talked about all year have started showing up and are feeding pretty good.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] Summary The weather may be hot but so is the fishing. The snook have been busting bait in the early mornings, the reds are schooled up again, the trout bite is holding on pretty good and the tarpon are everywhere.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] Summer is here. You can almost set your watch by the afternoon thunderstorms and the tarpon are in good numbers in the rivers. The schools of redfish have broken up into smaller schools and the bulls are on their way north. The snook fishing has improve in the early morning and the trout are on the drop-offs. For Cocoa Beach this all means that it\'s summer slam time.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] I can't say the bulls are charging but I can say the Gator Trout are. We have been catching a few nice reds up to 31 lbs and have seen a few of the 40+ pound fish but as of this report we haven't boated one yet. As for the big trout, they have been moving on the flats in good numbers. Our biggest to date was a 8 pounder we boated on top water.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] Fishing has picked up over the past week. A few schools of good reds are starting to show up as well as a few of our spring trout. The best part has been that the top water bite is starting to turn on. If things keep up the way they are now we are going to be in for a great spring.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] Fishing has still been up and down for the past few weeks but the good news is we have been having more on days then off. We have boated a good number of of slot sized reds which is different for me but great for anyone wanting to take something home. We are seeing a few fish in the 30 pound range but most of them have been extremely spooky.
[Cocoa Beach,FL] The schools of reds we have been fishing have been pretty spooky. All of the fish we have boated have been caught poling on their outside and letting them come to us. This has been a little bit of a challenge on some days when we have had a number of boats try to work into the areas we have been fishing with their trolling motor or motor up on a flat.