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Central Indian River Lagoon
Capt. Ron Bielefeld
August 2, 2006
Indian River Lagoon - Saltwater Fishing Report
Capt. Ron Bielefeld's Indian River Lagoon trout, snook, and redfish fishing report-Sebastian area
Weather is hot, water is low and clear, and the trout and snook are biting. Well, at least in the mornings they are biting. Not much has changed since my last report even though it has been a while. I apologize for the absence but sometimes life demands a departure from ones regular routine. My father recently passed away, and I traveled to Wisconsin, his home state, and mine for that manner, for his burial. My dad was a great man and he is responsible for who I am today. He took me fishing starting at age 3 and I have been fishing ever since. Many of the best memories I have are fishing with him over the years from Wisconsin, to Canada, to Florida. No matter where we went we always seemed to find time to go fishing. I miss him already and will for the rest of my life. Thanks dad for all the great times! I know the fishing in heaven is better than here, but here is not too bad either.
We have been heading out early to beat the heat. Water temps have been a respectable 83-84 degrees at about 5am and the fish have been feeding from the time we start fishing until about 10 am. For the most part, the bigger fish are feeding early and we are catching mostly smaller fish after the sun is up. The fish may be feeding after 10am but I have been making it a point to be off the water by then, so I wouldn’t know. Why? Because it has been down right hot with barely any wind. Not my definition of fun. I much rather be out before light working top-water plugs. We have been targeting very shallow, and there is a lot of very shallow areas right now, grass with a good mixture of open sand pockets and a lot of bait. Pig, pins, glass minnows, greenies, and mullet are all fairly plentiful around the Sebastian area right now. Because it is so calm and the water is clear the fish have been somewhat skittish for this time of year. As a result my choice of top-water plug leans away from poppers and toward the walk-the-dog type plugs. Moreover, we have been working the plugs slowly with only enough action to get noticed by the predators. My favorite top-water plug right now is the Yo-Zuri Banana Boat because you can make it bob around with very little forward movement thus keeping it in a fishes’ strike zone longer. After the sun is up we have been switching to Yo-Zuri 3D Fingerlings to get down a few feet and fishing them around the deeper edges of flats. It has been hard to find truly deep water, but there are a few places. Rip-Tide Brand weedless shrimp and flats chubs rigged on jigs also have been productive in the deeper water.
Hopefully the weather will stay the same and we won’t get too much rain, just enough to water the grass and keep it green would be nice. The lack of rain and thus nutrient rich runoff has kept the algae bloom down and the water relatively clean. The grass beds are looking great the number of baitfish seem to be up as well. Good times for all creatures of the Indian River Lagoon. Hopeful, Chris will stay away!
Until next time, Tight-Lines to all.
Sincerely,
Capt. Ron Bielefeld
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