Port Canaveral fishing

[slonezp]

Heading to Orlando next week. How's the fishing this time of year? Would I be wasting my money taking the family on a party fishing boat? 

[roadwarrior]

Hire a guide and fish ToHo.

 

[slonezp]

4 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

Hire a guide and fish ToHo.

 

Ditching the family should go over well with them

[roadwarrior]

Well, one day for dad!

[slonezp]

I want to do the party boat with my grandson. He's really too young to spend all day on a bass boat and if we're not catching fish he gets bored pretty easily. I could probably leave the women at Port Canaveral for the 6 hour duration of the party boat trip. I'm sure they could find something to do. Plus, I figure, if we catch anything, we could head to one of the seafood joints and they could prepare our catch for dinner.

 

I fished Toho once maybe 10 or 12 years ago in February during a severe cold front. All we caught were pickerel. 

[roadwarrior]

ghoti and I were there the first week of January. Our best day we caught 24 Florida 

bass over 5lbs, probably about an 8lb average and my big fish was 12.49. Of course,

we lost our three biggest fish.

 

 

                                         

[crypt]

I work at the Space Center and we fish the Port all year round. Party boat would be great but I would also go to Toho if I had to choose.

[slonezp]

27 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

ghoti and I were there the first week of January. Our best day we caught 24 Florida 

bass over 5lbs, probably about an 8lb average and my big fish was 12.49. Of course,

we lost our three biggest fish.

 

 

                                         

It was in the 70's the day my son and I arrived. We went and scoped out the boat ramp(I could be wrong but the ramp looked like the same ramp in the movie Bait Shop) and had dinner and crashed at the hotel. Next morning it was 28* and freezing rain. As I stated before, we caught pickerel but did lose a few bass. Following day was more pickerel and confrontations with the airboat tours because we were fishing around the gator nests, I guess. Next day we launched in Kissimmee and blew out the impeller from sucking up sand. Packed up and left. Trailer tire blew out on the way home with no spare. It was one of "those" trips.  

3 minutes ago, crypt said:

I work at the Space Center and we fish the Port all year round. Party boat would be great but I would also go to Toho if I had to choose.

I have a 5 year old grandson with an attention span of zero. Would you recommend one party boat over another? 

[crypt]

Miss Cape Canaveral or Ocean Obsession are the two that have been the best for years.

[SC53]

As crypt said, Miss Cape or the Double O are the best head boats in the port. 
Weather looks like it’ll be good next week for offshore. 
good luck