Mosquito Lagoon and St. Johns River report
Capt. John Kumiski
February 2, 2014
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What a week. I started working on an ark after the fourth day of rain, but the sun actually shone for a few minutes today.
Last Sunday Tammy Wilson and I went to the St. Johns River in the Mirage to fish for shad. There were lots of boats out there. We saw some folks we knew. They both said the same thing- the bite was good this morning, but it slowed down. Since we were already there we fished.
It wasn't hot but it was steady. With spin tackle we got them with little crappie jigs and Creme's Spoiler Shad, and with fly tackle on a chartreuse and silver shad fly. We probably got 15 or so in three hours, and a couple of crappie besides. Nice enough day!
Monday morning I drove through the rain to meet my fisherman, the Rev. Dell Schomberg, a fly fisher from Oregon. He had never fished in Mosquito Lagoon and was hoping to catch a redfish.
It was raining lightly as we idled out of Haulover Canal. It started to rain harder as I ran to spot number one. Running in the rain is not my idea of fun so we stopped at an alternate spot.
It was loaded with seatrout.
Dell got a couple fat slot fish by blind casting a slider before the rain stopped. At that point he said he'd still like to try for reds so we went hunting.
They were not where they had been.
We looked in a variety of other spots. Some had fish, some didn't, but nowhere were they thick. All the clouds made it hard to see. The best shots we had came when I found aboput a dozen tailing fish scattered over a 100 yard stretch of flat. We did not convert.
We found a school of about 30 fish that started moving almost as soon as I spotted them- no shot.
We found a bunch of fish in potholes. Blindcasting into the holes did not work, and sight fishing to fish we could see in the holes did not work either.
We ended up with the two trout and nothing else. At least it turned into a nice day.
It rained quite hard every day the rest of the week. I kept myself busy by adding some new articles to my website, tying flies, wrapping new guides on rods, trying to organize my tackle, and that sort of thing.
I am ready to do some fishing, I'll tell you that.
And that is this week's Orlando Area Fishing Report.
Life is great and I love my work!
Life is short. Go Fishing!
John Kumiski
http://www.spottedtail.com
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