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Daytona Beach area fishing report Port Orange: Ponce Inlet is producing over slot Red fish. The inlet area has been a hot spot for sheepshead, black drum and mangrove snapper along with jack. Also the slot red fish bite has been real good at low tides in some areas of Port Orange. For the pier…

Daytona Beach has been heating up with the Sheephead bite at Ponce Inlet and Port Orange area. The Sheephead are biting on fiddler crabs and shrimp. They are on average of 2 to 3lbs but some larger ones are being caught. As for the Halifax River, the bite has slowed down….. but I can tell…

The bite is heating up with the Redfish starting to stage and move out to spawn. You can find them from Ormond Beach to Port Orange hanging around the oyster bars. Use live finger mullet or for you artificial fishermen throw a mullet like bait. Such as a top water plug. I like the Rapala…

  The Redfish are on fire in the Tomoka Basin area. Ormond Beach is producing some great quality fish right now.  Bait of choice is either cut mullet or crab if you are looking for the over slot fish and if you are looking to put keepers in your boat go to a shrimp or…

Daytona Beach May Fishing Report With June fast approaching and the water temp getting warmer the bite is getting hotter in Daytona Beach area. Tomoka River has Tarpon scattered in it along with Snook, Trout and Reds. The Tomoka Basin has a lot of bait moving through it which is starting to turn on the…

The bite is picking up in Daytona Beach… There are plenty of Jacks and Bluefish around Ponce Inlet by all the docks. Use live shrimp or small bait fish on a circle hook for the best hook up. I’m hearing sounds of Spanish Mackerel just out side the Inlet. They are catching them on spoons…

Daytona Beach Fishing Report Ponce Inlet Area: Fishing around Ponce Inlet from Port Orange to Edgewater in the river areas has been GREAT on the sheepshead by the pilings on the docks and bridges, also the deeper holes with some type of structure. Use Shrimp or Fiddlers if you can find them. The trout have been good…

Fishing is on fire in this cooler weather. You can target just about every inshore species you want…. Flounder, Trout, Redfish, Snook, Sheep head, Black Drum, and even Grouper. In Ormond Beach you can find the Redfish and Flounder along the shallow oyster bars and creek mouths in the Tomoka Basin and Halifax River. The…

Daytona Beach fishing is on fire with this cooler weather.  The Halifax river is producing redfish, drum, flounder and many more. Use large live shrimp free lining or on a jighead. With the Tomoka basin producing mix bag of redfish from 18 to 32″. Ive been using 2-3 1/2″ finger mullet just free lining the…

The Summer heat has set in and that only means one thing, Tarpon and Jacks are feeding all over the Halifax River form Ponce Inlet through Daytona Beach and up in to Ormond Beach. If you are looking for some good fun use a live finger mullet or pin fish for the Tarpon and a…