St. Johns River Shad Run In Full Swing

Mosquito Creek Outdoors Indian River Lagoon Coast Fishing Report
By Captain Tom Van Horn

Well, the weather warmed up this week and we had some good opportunities for catching both on the Lagoons and in the St. Johns River. The only problem was someone forgot to tell the fish. On two trips to the Mosquito Lagoon this week, we found a good numbers of schooling redfish pushing around the shallow flats, but we struggled to get them to feed. The fish were so spooky we couldn't keep them from bumping up and moving of, so our limited results came from staking out and letting the schools come to us. On each day we caught nice fish, but only a few.

Rich Leeper with a nice 28-inch redfish.

On the St. Johns River, the shad run is in full swing, but again getting the fish to eat was tough. My best results this week was 4 shad taken on chartreuse Crazy Charlie fly. Again, the shad were working the upper third of the water column, but my offering did no appeal to them. My good friend Paul Macinnis provided the best report as he caught eleven shad, a mudfish, and a mess of brim and crappie on a trip to the river last week.

If the weather holds and we move away from this moon phase, the bite should improve by the weekend.

Paul Macinnis with one of his 11 shad on fly.

As always, if you have any questions or need information, please contact me.

Good luck and good fishing,

Captain Tom Van Horn
Mosquito Coast Fishing Charters
407-416-1187 on the water
407-366-8085 office
www.irl-fishing.com

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