Redfish

Fishing Report – Mosquito Lagoon

Friday, Sept. 10, 2010

Temp.: 73-91 deg.
Wind: wsw @ 5 at 7:00 am light chop
High pressure over area.
Clear conditions
Water level high, all the way up to the mangroves.
Pressure: Sea Level Pressure 29.93 in
Len fished with me at the lagoon this morning. We pushed off about 6:15 into the dark with a light chop. We made the mile paddle to the flat I’ve been fishing.

I directed Len to the “canoe slew“ it’s a sand bottom strip where a guy in the red canoe usually fishes. I pulled up just off the opposite corner of the island tip (“the sink hole”) and cast a jig towards the bank…fish on, lady, 2 nd cast…fish on, 3 rd cast…fish on……..all lady fish. They were thick as flies. Nearly every cast produced a fish but we were not there for lady fish. Our target was bull reds! I moved 150yds east to the sand holes I like to fish. It was pretty slow on the trout and redfish side. Finally, I set the hook on a 27” red and he ended up on the stringer.

Len was on the catfish and ended up catching a dozen or more. He did catch a 17” red at that spot before leaving and moving to my hole as I had left to prowl the flat looking for fish sign. I got into some lady fish back in the n.e. corner of the flat that were a little larger. Picked up one tiny trout. Len came over the radio…fish on! And landed a 21” red. I headed his way to take his picture and then moved back to the “sink hole”. The mullet activity was starting to pick up. I caught a bunch more ladyfish and a small trout. After a bit I saw the line of my free line mullet rod moving off to the left….and put a 17” trout on the stringer. Picked up a few more ladyfish on the jig rod. I was fishing a curly tail, white/silver/silver glitter, tipped with a strip of mullet.

After a bit I noticed the line of the mullet rod leaving at a high rate… punched the free spool so I could get my other rods clear. I wound down on him and set the hook…..another 27” red. Len’s red was good and alive so I culled him with this fish.
That pretty much wound things up and we started fishing our way back towards the launch. We got back to the truck about 1:30 pm and we were pretty much spent, hot, salty, soar but, you name it.
We made this trip knowing the fishing would be off but wanted to prove out a theory that the fish feed here based on the solunar tables and so far they have been right.
We felt fortunate to have caught the fish we did, especially the two big 27” fish.
Final Tally:
(17+) catfish
(25-30) ladyfish
(5) redfish
(3) trout

It may be a while before I can get back here with bow season about to start.

Best of Luck, Larry S.
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