Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon
Capt. Joe Porcelli
February 27, 2005
Mosquito Lagoon - Saltwater Fishing Report
The Mosquito Lagoon has been giving up its share of reds this past week. Well I can only speak for my vessel but it has been very good. We have been taking most of our reds on shrimp this week, but we have taken a number of them on Berkley soft plastics or GULP. Don’t get them mixed up with plastic baits. We have been drifting many of the flats in the Goon sight casting to reds as well as trout. One school we have been fishing has as many as four hundred reds in it. Don’t chase them. Let me repeat myself Don’t chase them, or pound them for that matter. They will leave the spot you found them and drive them away. Then they usually get unmanageable and freak! Were you found them they are comfortable and have been foraging in those arias for a while.
Jason Shapiro and Trent Thompson joined me for a morning of fishing before the 500 at Daytona. He is the crew chef for Tony Stewart’s race car. I am sure he is as good of a mechanic as he is a fisherman. He loves to fish I heard stories about him fishing between races when all the other guys are out partying. Him and good friend Trent caught twenty-one reds in a morning fishing the lagoon with me. They had a blast and I am sure they will visit the lagoon in July to catch that 50 inch fish. Trent, great fisherman but kept talking about the sunset. LOL Thanks for the story guy’s. The rest of the week was productively about the same. A front slowed things for a day but things returned as normal after it past. Trout fishing has been about the same in the holes. For every ten shorts you catch, you catch one keeper. I like to pinch down my jig hook barb so it will make it easier to release the shorts. Don’t even touch them if you do not have to. Use a hook remover and just plop him back in the water. The bigger trout are on the flats hunkering down waiting for a meal to swim by. We took some good size fish on soft jerk baits as well as shrimp.
Be safe the water is fluctuating from day to day. Eric nice prop scar you left on Tiger, caught five reds from it today and planted three rows of corn while I was there. If the sales man tells you it can float in eight inches that does not mean you can run in eight inches. I use to have a flat back canoe years ago to fish skinny with but it did not run skinny. Keep that in mind when you run the flats. Dust is one thing in your prop wash mud is another. Check out your lower unit when you are through running the flats that day. Your paint will be gone where you have been trenching. Closing Tiger is not the answer education is.
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