Fishing Report – Mosquito Lagoon

Published September 10, 2010 | By larry

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.