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Mosquito Lagoon & North Indian River Lagoon
Capt. Chris Myers
December 30, 2006
Mosquito Lagoon - Saltwater Fishing Report
Last week, I took a vacation out of state and returned just in time for holiday celebrations. Wednesday, the 27th was the first time I had fished in over ten days. I went to the Mosquito Lagoon to do a little scouting. The wind was howling, the air temperature was in the 40's, and the fish had vacated the flats where I had last seen them. After several miserable hours of fighting the frigid wind, I returned home.
Thursday was much warmer but still cloudy and windy. My wife and I got a mid-day start on Mosquito Lagoon. For the next couple hours, we played hide and seek with a school of black drum that was hanging out in three feet of water just cloudy enough to make them hard to see with the overcast skies. We never did get a good shot at them but my wife hooked a large redfish that spit the hook after several minutes. We ,moved on to some shallow flats and my wife hooked up again to a nice redfish using a 3" DOA CAL tail. We saw several schools of redfish as we made our way off the flat.
Friday, Brett and Pete Coakley from Maryland joined me in the Lagoon. In the first ten minutes of fishing, Brett had a large fish take a whole blue crab only to spit the hook before we ever got to see it. He then hooked up to a redfish of about 36" which managed to cut the leader near the boat. When the sun finally poked out from behind the clouds, Brett got one shot at the school of black drum but did not hook up. We elected to try some shallower flats and, after a bit of searching, finally found one that was not occupied by other boats. Brett and his dad each caught an upper slot redfish on cut ladyfish before it was time for them to leave. As we were poling off the flat, Brett tossed a gold DOA jerk bait to a couple reds sitting in a sand hole and watched them rush over and fight for the soft plastic. Brett was able to land his first red while sight casting and our trip ended on a positive note.
The upcoming winter days between cold fronts will continue to provide excellent shallow water sight fishing opportunities. These fish will eat a variety of soft plastic baits and flies as they search the flats for crabs and shrimp.
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