Category — Banana River Species

Word is Captain Mike Gulick of Reel Job Sportfishing has been putting himself and clients on some real nice speckled sea trout around the Banana River. He likes to throw top waters and white jerk baits around mangrove shorelines for trout. What ever he has been doing many clients have been happy with the results. If you would like to fish the Banana River for sea trout or any other available species we suggest you give him a call.

Captain Mike with a nice trout

Captain Mike Gulick – Reel Job Sportfishing

We had an exceptional year for tarpon fishing in the Banana River. Many local flats were over run with tarpon in the 3-15 pound range, some lucky anglers caught fish over 50. Live bait is most commonly used but Banana River tarpon will easily fall for flies or properly presented artificials. May old salts are saying this is some of the best tarpon fishing they have seen in 30 years around Brevard County. By the numbers of tarpon we found the past two weeekends it doesn’t look like it will slow up anytime soon. Many of the local canals that have not had tarpon in the last few years are suddenly full of them. There are many guides around the Space Coast who specialize in chasing tarpon give one a call today and catch a silver king.

Snook fishing has been pretty good in the Banana River the last few weeks. Most of the catches have come from DOA shrimp fished around docks and mangroves. There has also been some fish up on the flats in the early part of the day.

Here’s some pictures of the last few weeks snook catches.

Seadek Tyler with snook

BoldWater with a decent snook

Tyler nice snook on Ugly Otter

Small Banana River snook

20 pound Banana River snook