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Indian River Lagoon
Capt. Tom Van Horn
May 22, 2003
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Fishing on the IRL this week was comparable to the weather. Saturday through Tuesday, both the weather and the fishing were nice. Midweek, the arrival of blustery days created by a funky weather system moved in and spoiled everything. The wind switched to the southeast kicking up the seas, leaving the blue water and near-shore angling to the larger boats and seasoned anglers. Inshore, the rough water and cloudy skies eliminated sight-fishing opportunities. Hopefully, this yucky weather will blow through by the weekend, and we’ll get back to some serious action.
On Monday, I had the pleasure of spending the morning fishing with Louie Gibbs, president of Rip Tide and Culprit Lures, and Larry McGlashan, owner of Woodies Rattlers. Louie brought along a box full of new bait stiles and colors, and I learned a lot about the history of and process used to manufacture plastic baits. Rip Tide has some really cool new colors, and a new realistic shrimp bait, both of which will be available soon. We spent the morning experimenting with Louie’s new baits combined with Woodies rattle hooks and rattle inserts, and we enjoying the results of both.
Inshore, with the passing of the full moon, the bite was best from first light until the moon reached the horizon, and then it shut down completely. You know the fish aren’t biting when there’s not a single bird in the sky, and the docks are loaded with them. It seemed our best fish came from the deeper edges of the flats and from under docks, which extended out into the flats.
Outside, Captain Mulligan of Mully’s Charters reported hot action along the inshore reefs of 8A and Pelican Flats. Early in the week, they managed to catch some nice kingfish, and an immense black fin tuna of 37 pounds. There have also been reports of kingfish starting to show up in the buoy line of Port Canaveral. The other hot items outside are a good number of tripletail on the buoy line, large tarpon working pogies along the beach between Port Canaveral and Sebastian Inlet, and a good concentration of dolphin in deeper water.
One observation I made this week was the amount of waste fishing line discarded both in the water and on the shore. The discarded line is dangerous to wildlife and damages equipment. It’s important to try to dispose of waste fishing line in the recycle bins available at boat landing, public docks, and in tackle shops. Each of us should do our part to safeguard the resources we love.
As always, if you have questions or need information, please contact me.
Good luck and good fishing,
Captain Tom Van Horn
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