Central Florida Shootout Fish
A Dolphin and Triple Tail caught on the Reel Binder while fishing the Central Florida Shootout
Capt Doug Kaska @ Boater’s Exchange
“Gettin’ Ready for Grouper & Some Beach-side Tarpon Fishing”
The Indian River Lagoon system is famous for producing many Trophy fish, Redfish, Sea Trout, Snook, Tarpon and many other species. Let Capt. Doug Kaska guide you to some of the best fishing areas where you can land that special trophy.
The Sebastian Inlet gets you to the ocean to do that special nearshore experience without having to travel many miles offshore.
Captain Doug Kaska will share his vast fishing knowledge with you and make sure you have a wonderful experience.
http://www.SebastianFishingCharters.com/
Every first Tuesday of each month, Boaters Exchange holds a free, hour-long fishing seminar on various topics from local, professional fishing guides as they give out their secret techniques and tips. The seminars are designed to discuss topics for upcoming fishing trends so that you can get the most use out of your boat and know what you’re doing while you’re out on the water. Seminars are held at the Boaters Exchange location in Rockledge and start at 6PM. Refreshments and giveaways are included in the evening’s activities and every seminar is sponsored by Boaters Exchange, Michael Rowland of USB Financial Services, & Mark Filichia of Coverage Pro Insurance.
Offshore Bait Rigging and Tactics- West Marine Melbourne @ 6pm
On Thursday 04/26 Space Coast Anglers and West Marine in Melbourne will host Capt. Tommy Smith at 6pm. He will be showing us some of his favorite offshore bait rigging techniques and will cover tactics on how to use those baits to target big Dolphin and Wahoo. This seminar couldn’t be more timely as the offshore tournament season starts to heat up.
Capt Blair Wiggins @ Strike Zone Tuesday 4/24
On Tuesday 4/24 we have Capt Blair Wiggins “The Mogan Man” from the TV show Addictive Fishing coming to speak at Strike Zone for a FSFA meeting. Members and non-members are all welcome to attend the meeting and seminar at no cost. Mike with UBS and Mark with Coverage Pro Insurance will be providing refreshments and bbq for the event and Sean from Strike Zone is sure to provide great raffle prizes.
Attendees will start to gather at Strike Zone around 6:30 pm for food and socailizing and the meeting will begin at 7:30 pm.
Central Florida Shootout
Central Florida Shootout. This is a great tournament with a great format. Each angler buys a $40 ticket and can participate in the inshore, offshore, and freshwater portion of the tournament. The entry also enters each participant into a raffle for a 21′ Nautic Star Bay Boat.
We will have a bait rigging/ offshore round table on April 26th at West Marine for the offshore guys so mark you calendars!
Weekend Trout
This 5lb 25″ trout was caught after listing to and using the tips Captain Mark gave at his last seminar!
Trout
Capt Scott Goodwin Offshore Fishing Tactics “Dolphin”
Please join us for another exciting free fishing seminar Tuesday night (April 3rd) at 6 PM. The seminar will be held in our indoor showroom at Boaters Exchange
This month’s speaker is a very knowable host, Capt. Scott Goodwin from Offshore Academy Click here—> http://offshoreacademy.com/ He will be speaking about ‘Offshore Fishing Tactics for Dolphin’.
Refreshments and free raffle are sponsored by Michael Rowland with UBS Financial Services and Mark Filichia with Coverage Pro Insurance.
Spring Patterns for Redfish and Trout
Wednesday March 21st at 6pm West Marine in Melbourne will be hosting Captain Mark Wright. He will be discussing spring season patterns for redfish and trout. Captain Mark is an excellent guide and fisherman and gives a great seminar. You don’t want to miss this one.
As always there will be a free raffle and refreshments provided by Mike Rowland with UBS Financial Services and Mark Filichia with Coverage Pro Insurance.
Springtime Tactics for Cobia
Spring Time Bass!
Bass fishing is starting to heat up and local bass pro JT Kenny will be at Strike Zone on Thursday Feb 16th sharing some of his local know how. He will be going over pre-spawing fish in heavy cover and spawning fish you can’t see. The seminar will start at 6pm and as with all of our seminars there will be free beverages and a free raffle. Come out to touch up on your skills and catch more bass this season!
JT Kenny
Captain Jim Ross at Boaters Exchange
Tomorrow night, February 7th, Captain Jim Ross will be speaking about spring time tactics for catching redfish. Captain Ross is an excellent speaker and is sure to put on an informative seminar.
Join us at Boaters Exchange in Rockledge at 6pm. Free refreshments and raffle will be provided as usual by Mike and Mark. See you all there!
Stripers, Largemouth, Specs and Shad on the St Johns
This is a report sent to us from Mike Kohut:
A great day on the St. Johns…12 stripers, 5 nice bass, a dozen specs and about (no lie) 50 shad. Best day ever on the St. Johns
St John Striper
St Johns Shad
Pompano Fishing!
On Thursday, January 12th Pompano Al will be speaking at West Marine on New Haven in Melbourne at 6pm.
He will cover tackle, rigs and tactics for targeting one of the best eating fish in the ocean. Raffles and refreshments will be provided by Mike with UBS Financial Services and Mark with Coverage Pro Insurance.
Sand Flea
Pompano Fishing January 12 @ West Marine
Join us on January 12th at 6pm for a Seminar on Pompano Fishing. Stay tuned for more Details……
Fishing Downriggers- Great Article
http://floridasportfishing.com/magazine/the-rigging-station/ready-set-deploy
Captain Christina Weber talks beach Sharking
Featuring the woman of Florida Sportswoman and Reel Wench Wear. Brittney Novalsky, President of Florida Sportswoman. Inc…., will give an introduction into Florida Sportswoman and all the great things they are doing to promote anglers on the space coast and beyond.
This month’s speaker is a very exciting host. Christina Weber from Reel Wench Wear will be talking about “Beach Shark Fishing – Black Tip Sharks – Tips, Tactics, Baits, Rigging, Gear, Time of Year to Catch them & More”.
Flounder Fishing Sebastian Inlet
Ranger Ed Perry, the authority on flounder fishing the inlet, will be speaking at West Marine on Wednesday 11/16 at 6pm. Refreshments and raffle will be provided by Micheal Rowland and Mark Filichia. Come out and become a better fisherman!
Capt Rodney Smith
Boater’s Exchange and Space Coast Anglers will host Captain Rodney Smith tomorrow evening, November 1st, at 6pm. He will be speaking about fishing the Indian River Lagoon coast. As always refreshments will be provided by Mike Rowland with UBS Financial Services and Mark Filichia with Coverage Pro Insurance
Great Article/ thread on Line Breakage
http://www.floridasportsman.com/2011/10/07/reasons-for-fishing-line-breakage/
Captain Ed Dwyer: Tactics, Tips, and Preparation for Offshore Tournament Fishing
Please join us next Tuesday 10/4/11 at Boater’s Exchange for the “First Tuesday” Seminar. We will have Ed Dwyer, Captain of the “Ticket” teaching us about Tactics, Tips, and Preparation for Offshore Tournaments. The seminar will start at 6pm and as always will include a raffle and free refreshments provided by Michael Rowland with UBS Financial Services and Mark Filichia with Coverage Pro Insurance.
Dolphin and Wahoo Offshore Sebastian
Decided to head out even though noaa had 3-4ft seas posted…how wrong they were. We went to bethel to pick up a few baits in case it was too slow trolling. Found a nice weedline and rip in 100ft and worked it south picking up an 18lb bull right a way. As soon as we got lines back out another real nice phin was on the line and made his way to the ice. As we were putting lines back out still working the same weedline, a small bonita hit and as we were working him to the boat, the port rigger pops and starts screaming. A couple nice runs and were thinking Wahoo and also remembering this was the only mono rig we had out in the spread. As we get him closer to the boat and see color we start to think its a sailfish and we put the gaff back in the holder. But as soon as he gets boat side we see the stripes. There was another wahoo right next to it making it look like a sail. Find the gaff again and stick all 40lbs of him and throw him on ice. We continued to work the weedline and picked up another 25lb phin. We have 4 nice fish and its 230 so we make our way in.
Snook Seminar at West Marine
Kyle Walters Snook
