Enjoy Summer Fishing on Vilano Beach

Summer can be an interesting time for beach fishing. While the weather is rarely able to be predicted, the beach has the same problem. Even so, one should never give up. Although it is difficult, the difficulty will actually make the fishing trip even more fun and rewarding.

You may be wondering where you can fish along the beach. There are miles of fishing areas between the St. Johns River and the St. Augustine Inlet for you to choose from, so this can be a hard choice.

Believe it or not, one fishing secret is that it is the walking that is important. When you walk on the beach when the tide is low you can find how the sea bottom lies and this is important. Using this kind of approach is the reason that fishing can actually be more than a recreation, and considered a sport.

What should you be looking for on the walk at low tide? Well, take a look at the waves. What you may see is waves that are breaking on out beyond you and then the waves form again and break nearer to the shore as well. Usually this indicates a sand bar and then the waves are reforming on a slough. If you tried to walk out from where you are you would have to go through deep water to get to the sand bar where the water may only be a couple inches deep.

Once you know where the sandbars are, you need to find the gaps between sandbars where there is deep water where fish may be. You can find the places of deeper water by looking to find where waves roll all the way to the beach instead of stopping. Once you find one of these places, make sure you mark it so you can find it again because high tide will make it look much different. When you find this gap, you can plan your fishing trip there at the gap and just inside of the sandbars as well.

Now you may be wondering when you should fish. Usually the best time is about two hours before dawn and two hours after dusk, or the two hours before and after high tide as well. If you combine these theories the best time is to fish during an early morning or evening high tide.

If you are planning a vacation you may be wondering how you will know when the tides will be high. Well you can actually find that usually the high tides that occur in the morning and evening follow the new and full moons, and usually calendars have these dates noted.

During the summer months you can fish for pompano, Spanish mackerel, flounder, whiting, drum, kingfish, trout, and redfish. There is a chance that you may find catfish, shark, crabs, and skates as well. Since there are so many fish biting you never know what you will catch, but no matter what you catch it will be great, so go out to the beach and get fishing.