The fall mullet run stacks snook, tarpon, and jacks against the beach and jetties at Sebastian Inlet. This breakdown covers when the run peaks, how to read a feeding school, where each fish sets up, and the live baits and lures that earn strikes from mid-September through October.
Snook are Florida's most demanding inshore species: intelligent, structure-dependent, and completely tuned in to tides and temperature. This article covers where to find them through every season, which baits and techniques actually produce, how night fishing changes the game, and what the current FWC regulations require on both coasts.
Spillways are flood control structures that became accidental fish aggregators. When the gates open, stunned freshwater forage pours into the brackish basin below and big snook stack in the slack water to take it. Timing the flow matters more than anything in your tackle box.
Rock, spring water, and a foot of tide. This coast fishes nothing like South Florida, and the snook living on it behave accordingly. Capt. William Toney runs out of Homosassa and breaks down where they stage from there north to Cedar Key, when to be there, and what gets eaten.
Cold water does not shut snook down. It compresses them into a fraction of the water they used in summer and makes the bite quiet enough to miss entirely. Capt. William Toney covers the temperature thresholds, where fish relocate, and how to time a winter bite around a front.
