Indian River Lagoon & Banana River
Capt. John Kumiski
March 16, 2002
Titusville - Saltwater Fishing Report
This week's report on the upper Indian River and Mosquito
Lagoon from Spotted Tail, updated 3/16
We had a long run of crappy weather, which hurt fly fishing.
They're hard to fly fish when you can't see 'em. However,
this last week has been pretty nice and the last couple of
days just beautiful. The water in the lagoon system is still
very low.
On Friday last week I fished Carl Chambers, a fly fisher
from Colorado. There were plenty of fish in the Mosquito
Lagoon, a beautiful day. Carl struggled with his casting,
but was finally rewarded with a beautiful 5 pound trout.
Saturday and Sunday I fished Rit Thompson, a fly caster from
the DC area. Rit had another gorgeous day on Saturday and
got two trout to five pounds and four redfish to ten pounds.
Sunday we had 20 knot winds and overcast. The water got
muddied up, and one trout of about 5 pounds was all we could
do,
Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday I took my kids kayak camping at
the north end of Mosquito Lagoon. We found a nice school or
redfish behind an island and got five of them, all on
flies, nice fish of 7 or 8 pounds.
Thursday I took the kids out of Port Canaveral, looking for
Mr. Cobia. We hooked two, and Maxx put a 22 pounder in the
boat. We also got a crevalle of 35 pounds and 6 tripletail
to about 12 pounds. It was a wonderful day!
It's great to be alive, and I love my work!
Capt. John Kumiski
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