Mosquito Creek Outdoors Indian River Lagoon Coast Fishing Report
August 14, 2011
By Captain Tom Van Horn
Upcoming Seminars and Events
Saturday, August 20th Snook Fishing
10: 00 - 12:00 Snook Fishing Tactics "Free Seminars" instructed by Captains Tom Van Horn, Chris Myers, "Snook Fishing Tactics ", located in the Outback at Mosquito Creek Outdoors, 170 S. Washington Ave., Apopka Florida, www.mosquitocreek.com.
Last Weeks Fishing Report
Fishing this last week was challenging once again on tayshe days I fished. My week started on Monday as we launched before daylight in an effort to beat the heat and the afternoon storms. Our plan was to look for tarpon along the beach, so as we headed south out of Port Canaveral and we were greeted by a stiff southeast wind and a moderate chop. Following the beach, we located and netted pogies just south of the Cocoa Beach Pier, and then headed south looking for signs of tarpon. The combination of tall storm clouds over the Gulf Stream blocking the sun to the east and choppy seas made it difficult to locate any action, so after reaching Patrick AFB we turned around and headed back to the Port Canaveral buoy line. On our way back, we did locate terns diving on glass minnows and some bonito busting bait, and we were successful at catching several nice fish in the ten pound range on a DOA Bait Buster. We also caught both bonito and sharks trolling pogies on the buoy line before a super squall blow in from the west. Our only option was to run in and the squall caught us with 50 knot winds and white out conditions about a half mile from the ramp, and our day of fishing was done.
My next adventure was to the Mosquito Lagoon on a two boat charter with Captain Chris Myers, and we knew it would be tough with all of the rain we experienced over the past week. Our plan was to meet our clients at 0530, but the full moon enticed me out of bed, and I was on the water at 3am. I launched the boat and spent the next few hours enjoying the early morning darkness putting around the Haulover Canal fishing with topwater plugs and enjoying the luminescence. After meeting our clients we hit the lagoon before sunrise and quickly located a massive school of mullet getting busted by larger fish in the dark, but we were unsuccessful in making any connections, and the frenzy only lasted a few minutes. Once the sun was up we found horrible water conditions. The water was very high and hot, about 90 degrees, with no visibility. We had cloudy skies and a north wind of at least 10 knots, and we spent the remainder of the day polling the flats looking for fish until the heat drove us off of the water. We had shots at dozens of fish, but we just couldn't get them to eat.
I know I'm just singing the blues, but fishing is fishing, and I know things are fixing to fire up as the breeder redfish begin to school up for their spawn and the silver mullet begin their fall migration.
As always, if you need imformation of have any questions, please contact me.
Good luck and good fishing,
Captain Tom Van Horn
mosquitocoast@cfl.rr.com
http://www.irl-fishing.com
(407) 416-1187
For all of your outdoor needs, visit www.mosquitocreek.com, it's where your adventure begins.
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