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Central Indian River Lagoon
Capt. Ron Bielefeld
July 12, 2003
Indian River Lagoon - Saltwater Fishing Report
Capt. Ron Bielefeld's Indian River Lagoon Report - Sebastian Area
The catching this past week around Sebastian has been fairly good early and late in the day, but has been difficult after about 9 am. Snook, trout, ladyfish, and jacks have provided the action. As usual top-water plugs have been very effective during the early and late parts of the day when worked over the shallow grass in and around the abundant baitfish. Jigs and twister tails and Rip Tide Brand Realistic Shrimp have provided some late morning and early evening trout, ladyfish, and jacks around deeper structure.
As those of you who read my reports regularly know, I usually stick to reporting what I have been catching, how, and where. I do not usually provide the names of my clients and long-winded details of our trips because my goal is to provide good, accurate information in a concise form to those who are interested in what is happening on the Lagoon and not to try to impress you with how many clients I have and from where they have come. However, I feel I must let you now about the trip I took on the early morning of July 4. My clients on this day where John McRae and Mike Taylor and they came to the Sebastian area to spend the holiday weekend with their families and to catch some snook and trout. To make a short story long, we were about an hour into our trip and had caught a few fish when Mike made a long cast to the edge of the grassy bar we were fishing. Both John and Mike were accomplished anglers and Mike’s experience was about to pay big, and I mean big, dividends. The Spook Mike had cast had just hit the water and he had worked it about two feet when the water under the plug caved in with such force it sounded like a garbage can had been opened just under the surface. The conditions were calm at the time, so the sound was intensified all the more. Within a second of the explosion, Mike set the hook and the massive snook cleared the water entirely. From that point on John, Mike, and myself worked as a team, Mike fighting the fish and John and I positioning the boat and keep obstacles out of Mike’s way. In the end, it took both John and myself to heave the great fish into the boat, because it did not fit in the net. The fish John fought for 20 minutes on a 7’ medium-light spinning rod spooled with 10 lb. Power Pro and a 30 lb fluorocarbon leader, weighed in the neighborhood of 25 to 30 lbs and was longer than my measuring guide I had on the boat. I had a scale on the boat, but decided not weigh the fish, but to get it back in the water as quickly as possible. After helping the fish regain its bearings, it swam off, hopefully to fight another day. John did an awesome job fighting that fish, a fish of a lifetime on the flats. Way to go John!
If you want to see the fish just go to my website at www.tightlinefishing.com John and the snook now grace my front page. Until next time, Tight-Lines to all.
Sincerely,
Capt. Ron
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