Port Canaveral Snook At Night

An evening on the water with Captain Richard produced this nice fat snook and great smile from this northeast angler. Snook are one of the most sought after gamefish in the tropics and Florida has it's share of great snook fishing. These fish are more active during the darker hours and have no problem feeding in dark places near lit up docks and seawalls.

"You'll have no problem detecting a snook's bite, but you'll definately wonder if you're gonna pull them in once hooked up," Explains Captain Richard to one of his anglers on a cool tropical night at Port Canaveral. "The name snook is a well earned name of a fish that's capable of out snookering you in a moments notice by pulling you into nearby structure, head shaking your lure, jumping and extremely hard runs. You'll wonder how you got them in most of the time."

Port Canaveral offers some of the very best snook fishing in the country, however post 9/11 has left most fishermen handicaped so badly they've given up. "You must stay 25 feet away from the docks and are constantly harrassed by over zeolous and bored Port Security guards while fishing.  But if you stick by the rules and have the knowledge, you can land some really big fish and stay out of trouble", explains Capt Richard.

Find out more about snook and their habits on the Port Canaveral Fish Information page.

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Snook are one of the most prized species of fish in Florida and anglers spend thousands of dollars in tackle, gear and time to develope tactics for these tremendous inshore fish. There are several different subspecies of snook in Florida but the most sought after is the common snook pictured below.

Port Canaveral Snook are attracted by the shear vast quanities of structure in the port from docks to moored boats, rocks, pilings, dropoffs, seawalls, bouys and more. There is alot of baitfish traveling and feeding around the port and snook love the abundance of baitfish and food. I've caught snook on shrimp, mantis shrimp (try getting one of those things on a hook) and live finfish, which is my personal favorite. One of the funnest ways to catch a snook in the port is on fly, but in my experience it's probably one of the most inconsistant methods and because of the security restrictions around structure in the port it's difficult to make presentations for this finicky gamefish. However flyfishing in Port Canaveral can be a blast for many other species.

You can find a couple of snook fishing videos on the Lagooner Fishing site, but they are manly about snook fishing on the beach near Port Canaveral during the summer spawning months (snook typically spawn near the beach). We've not yet filmed a night of fishing for snook at Port Canaveral, maybe we'll do that this fall.