Fishing Reports by Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon

May 10 - Mosquito Lagoon, Indian River, Ponce Inlet Backcountry - Moving right along into May...water temperatures have climbed into the 80's, baitfish have been flooding the inshore waters, manatees are scattered around the Lagoons, and the cobia, jack and tarpon migration is moving up the Florida coastline. A bri more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach

April 10 - Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River Lagoon - It's April in Florida and that means spring is here, the annual bait run is about to begin, and the fish feeding activity is moving into overdrive. As water temperatures warm inshore and along the coast the bait migration will move up the coastline.. more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - Mosquito Lagoon

March 10 - Mosquito Lagoon, Indian River Lagoon, NSB Backwaters - March is here and the fishing in East-Central Florida is picking up steam heading into the spring. Water temperatures are consistently warming, and in turn, producing a more consistent bite for all inshore fish. Redfish have been the number one targe more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach

Feb 2010 - Mosquito Lagoon, Edgewater, NSB, Ponce Inlet Area - Rolling into February and 2010 is off to a good, but interesting, start. For the second year in a row, extreme cold temperatures created dangerously low water temperatures causing another snook kill in the area. This time however, the fish kill was m more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach

Jan '10 - Mosquito Lagoon, New Smyrna, Ponce Backcountry - Happy New Year to everyone! 2010 is hard to believe, seems like we were just contemplating the seriousness of Y2K. You blink your eyes and a decade has gone by. 2009 presented challenges, but spending 254 days on the water and racking up over 160 cha more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach

Dec 09 - Mosquito Lagoon, New Smyrna, Ponce Inlet Backwaters - December...where did this calendar year go? I can't believe it's nearly 2010. We had so much fun this year on the coastal waters of Central Florida. To date I have put in over 240 days on the water, done over 150 charters, and we have caught hundreds more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach

Nov 09 - Mosquito Lagoon, New Smyrna, Ponce Inlet Backcountry - November is a transition month on the inshore waters of Central Florida. November typically signals the end of the fall bait run as stronger cold front sweep into the area dropping water temperatures. The ensuing cooler water temperatures also start more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach

October 09 - New Smyrna Beach, Ponce Inlet, and Mosquito Lagoon - The first cold fronts of the season have just dipped into Florida, fall is in the air. From this point forward fishing on the Space Coast will be in a transition phase. The inshore and nearshore waters are full of baitfish making their migration sout more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach

Sept 09 - Mosquito Lagoon, New Smyrna, Ponce Inlet Backcountry - Labor Day weekend typically signifies the start of football games, the end of the busy tourist season, the early stages of the fall bait run, and all fish in Florida stuffing themselves before the colder weather begins to arrive next month. While vis more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach

Aug 09 - Mosquito Lagoon, Indian River, Ponce Inlet area - The dog days of August are upon us. July is one month I didn't want to see end, the fishing action was spectacular here on Florida's Space Coast. As mentioned in my previous report, things wouldn't change much until September, so tarpon, redfish, and more...
Capt. Nathaniel Lemmon - New Smyrna Beach