Indian River Lagoon Coast Fishing Report, September 23, 2007
Compliments of Mosquito Creek Outdoors, Apopka Florida
Squally weather and angry seas kept most anglers in port and off of the water last week, but as the rogue summer squall moves away and when the seas settle down, assume fishing conditions will return. Although I only ventured out on a few occasions last week, I did give it the college try, and here's what I found.
My first attempted was a trip to the north Indian River Lagoon with my good friends Captain John Kumiski and his son Max. As we launched the boat around 7am, squalls were prevalent in the morning sky accompanied by occasional rumble of distant thunder. Northeast winds of 15 to 20 knots were predicted for later in the day, but as usual, the morning breezes were much less and we needed our angling fix.
As we reached the eastern shoreline we found fishable conditions and soon spotted several nice schools of redfish about 50 to 100 feet from the shoreline. Water levels are as high as I have seen all year, so concentrate your efforts in close to the shoreline and pay particular attention to areas holding black mullet. Also, be sure to check your favorite culvert for flowing water as predator like staging in the discharge ambushing bait as it moves through the pipes. As it turned out, threatening skies had us back at the dock before any fish were enticed, and we had a nice breakfast at Denny's.
My next adventure carried me to the beach with hopes of catching some beach linesiders, but again rough conditions made catching a challenge. The bait run is in full swing, and the surf was loaded with finger mullet and bluefish, but no snook were caught. Another notable feature was the number of blacktip sharks working the wash along the edge. On more than one occasion pods of three to five foot sharks with their backs exposed were chasing the finger mullet in close.
After checking the long-range weather forecast, conditions aren't looking much better for the early part of this week, so we may have to suck it up and go fishing anyway.
As always, if you have any questions or need more information, please contact me.
Good luck and good fishing,
Captain Tom Van Horn
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