Thread: Best time of year?

I love April. Kings are starting to show up, Cobia are into their yearly migration, Sheepshead are big and hungry (especially nearer the first part of the month), Spanish mackerel schools are usually around, and there's the skinny-water species like specs, flounder, pompano, and slot reds.

Second choice is October, because I typically score well with kings and spanish and just massacre specs and reds in Little Lagoon.

We will be down again for a family vacation the middle of July with some of our kids and grand-kids. I was hoping for the first week of June but that's not happening. My question is, will the night fishing off the boat docks under the lights at Sea Oats on the lagoon produce anything that late into summer? Hoping for a chance at some specs, reds or flounder. I have fished there during summer days in the past and its been a pinfish chewdown. I've since seen on the forum that the night time is the right time on the lagoon.

Originally Posted by travis

We will be down again for a family vacation the middle of July with some of our kids and grand-kids. I was hoping for the first week of June but that's not happening. My question is, will the night fishing off the boat docks under the lights at Sea Oats on the lagoon produce anything that late into summer? Hoping for a chance at some specs, reds or flounder. I have fished there during summer days in the past and its been a pinfish chewdown. I've since seen on the forum that the night time is the right time on the lagoon.

Mid-Summer is a great time to catch specs, reds, and flounder in the lagoon under lights at night. The fact that pinfish are there is a good sign! Big speckled trout and keeper reds chow down on pinfish. If I'm trying to catch pinfish for bait, I'll use the smallest sabiki rig and put a tiny piece of gulp shrimp on each hook. I mostly use a paddletail plastic bait for night-time specs and reds, but pinfish work great, too. I usually start fishing about midnight and if I'm using pinfish I'll cast them past the light, freelined, and reel them into the lighted area.

Added: when you're through fishing for pinfish, remember to remove those little pieces of gulp shrimp from your sabiki before it dries.

What about surf fishing?