Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon
Capt. Joe Porcelli
May 31, 2002
Mosquito Lagoon - Saltwater Fishing Report
The Mosquito Lagoon was giving up allot of trout to pigs and 12 Fathom Slam’Rs in pumpkinseed color all last week. This week the catch to age and size ratio has to go out to Joe Bianca age 10 caught a seven pound gator trout. Jon (dad) and Dr. Joe Bianca from Louisiana made up the three-generation party that always is a hit. Bob Sinn caught ten trout and six reds up to twenty-nine inches on a Sunday morning half day. We have also been taking a few ladyfish and some jacks when we fish closer to schools of mullet or near the channel. Reds have been tailing nicely in the early morning and on major feed.
The north end of the Indian River has been producing good catches of ladyfish, trout and jacks along the intercostal waterway docks. Night fishing the dock lights is a good way to beat the heat on those windless summer days.
Edgewater and New Smyrna is a good place to start and you can go all the way through Daytona and work the dock lights.
Some of the better lights are north because less fishing pressure. The docks are giving up mangrove snapper as well as the rocks that line the river channel. Finger mullet and pilchards work best but shrimp will work well also but the small fish can some times be a pain in the bait and eat your shrimp as fast as you drop it. The weather has finally cleared for the year it looks like we can get on with our predictable summer days.
Remember: Think like a fish to catch fish.
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