Fishing Report – High Bridge (Tomoka)

May 16,2013

Weather; Clear and light wind, falling tide

Fished 6:45-8.45 AM

Location: High Bridge, North Tomoka

Catch: (1) Snook  &  lost (1) unknown, (1) Trout, redfish and Jack ea.

I fished out of High Bridge this morning with friends Rick and TR. I planned to fish strictly with artificials…..a 5M51 MirrOlure and a 17MR MirrOdine. TR and Rick had brought some live shrimp along and the trout and Jack were caught on them. The red was taken on a gold spoon.

I started off the morning great with a nice snook on the first cast!  I paddled up on a big school of finger mullet at the mouth of an intersecting creek. One cast to the school and a snook blasted out from under to intercept my top water plug. I did hook up with another fish on a 17MR that was hiding in a fallen cedar tree. I never got to see what that one was but it likely was another snook given the location.

While there was a decent amount of bait to be seen, mostly all finger mullet, I saw no striking fish or predator action of any kind. I tasted the water to check the salinity and it was way off. Though a few fish were caught, more than I expected, I think the area needs some time to recover from the recent flush of fresh stormwater

Larry S.