Mosquito Creek Outdoors Indian River Lagoon Coast Fishing Report
June 19, 2011
This Weeks Fishing Report
It was a crazy week on the Lagoon as the IFA Redfish Tour paid visit with their 61 tournament teams buzzing around pre fishing for yesterday's event. Add this extra angling pressure to the normal weekend crowed and the beautiful weather and the results equaled a Zoo on the water.
Despite all of the craziness, we still experienced some decent fishing for sea trout and the larger redfish which are not the targets of the Redfish tour. The shining star this summer has been the sea trout, with some good fish coming on top-water plugs very early in the morning fishing in two to three feet of water in the areas of active mullet schools. Redfish have also been mixed in with the mullet, but they haven't been fining up very well making them hard to see. For sea trout, the smaller Rapala Skitterwalks preformed well with a DOA silver glitter shrimp at a close second. For redfish, cover the flats looking for mullet schools. Once located, watch closely for fins just breaking the surface and toss in a DOA Shrimp or a fresh chunk of mullet, ladyfish or pinfish.
Fish behavior is much different this year compared to past both in the Lagoon and along the beach. Inside the Lagoon, I have yet to see the schools of glass minnows we normally show up around the first of June, and I haven't seen the first tarpon on the inside. Outside in the near-shore waters out of Port Canaveral, the kingfish and tarpon have not shown up in the concentrations seen last year.
Along the beach, we experienced a large amount of bait schools (pogies), but very little predators feeding on them. On a yesterday's tarpon charter, we located an area with hundreds of rolling fish, but only managed to get one to eat, which came unbuttoned after its third jump. On the bright side we did find fish, and I did see one nice kingfish caught on the Port Canaveral buoy line. Also, the seas are starting to settle down, so it's only a matter of time before things improve.
The July fishing forecast are by all Coastal Angler Magazine Orlando Captains are posted, so visit:
http://coastalanglermag.com/orlando/.
As always, if you have any questions or need help, please contact me.
Good luck and good fishing,
Captain Tom Van Horn
Mosquito Coast Fishing Charters
(407) 416-1187 on the water
www.irl-fishing.com
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