Kingfish off of the Beach
Capt. Tom Van Horn
May 20, 2009
Indian River Lagoon - Saltwater Fishing Report
Mosquito Creek Outdoors Indian River Lagoon Coast Fishing Report, May 20, 2009
By Captain Tom Van Horn
It's 4am and the sound of thunder rattles the windows waking me from an exceptional nights sleep. Driving rain has fallen all night adding to the 6 inches already gauged in my back yard over the past three days. Our prolonged drought is over at least for know as flood warnings are echoing from the weather radio this morning. I'm not complaining, because we need the rain so badly, and I can always use the rest.
Fishing this past week was showing significant improvement despite the windy conditions. Inshore, we have been experiencing good catches of sea trout in two to three feet of water fishing with DOA CAL tails jigs and Rapala Twitching Raps. The majority of the fish are small, but their great fun on ultra light tackle, with the best bite coming in the afternoon on the deeper sides of spoil islands.
Nearshore, both the bait (pogies) and kingfish have returned to the beach as water temperatures begin to warm up after the cold water upwelling experienced over the last two weeks. Captain Keith (www.captain-keth.com) reported a good numbers of kingfish and large jacks off of the beaches out of Port Canaveral, and cobia and dolphin on the inshore reefs as well.
Further north out of Ponce Inlet, Captain Fred Roberts is excited about the arrival of bait pods and tarpon. Captain Fred reported jumping several tarpon on a recent trip out of Ponce last week, landing one in the 80-pound range. He is also reporting large redfish and jack crevalle (yellow jacks) in the inlet pass.
As the rain begins to fall harder now outside my window, it's time to finish up this report and return to bed. No fishing or lawn work today, and hopefully when the rain stops the bite will still be on and my rested soul will be ready for some catchen.
As always, if you have any questions or need more information, please contact me.
Good luck and good fishing,
Captain Tom Van Horn
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