Fishing Report – Mosquito Lagoon 5-25-13

After the action he had last weekend at the lagoon, We couldn’t resist going back for more! We had a pretty good crew this morning and I was joined by Rick Edwards and Dr. Theodore DeRoche (TR). That was about all our little hot spot could support fishing.

Unfortunately, the wind was forecasted to be 10 mph at 6 am and building to 16 mph by noon. We decided to go ahead and chance it and hope against hope the the forecast would be wrong.

It wasn’t!

We caught some live bait in a little creek on the paddle in, mostly pin fish, a few mullet and misc. others. We fished a few spots quickly on the way but were anxious to get to the honey hole.

Unlike last weekend, when we arrived at the spot we found the water to be pretty dirty and had to set up differently due to the wind direction. I expect the stained water was from the brown tide that has been an issue for the area.

I had a not so good feeling about reproducing the results of last weekend and that would turn out to be right. As a matter of fact, it got so slow about mid morning that two of our party actually dozed off.

Most of the fish were caught later up in the morning.

We caught a total or (4) mid slot redfish and one small lady fish all morning. The three reds I caught were on live pin fish and mullet and Rick caught his on a Gulp shrimp again. I had (2) others on but only briefly.  The finger mullet were a little larger than I prefer, about 5″. One fish I lost probably just hadn’t gotten the whole mullet in his mouth when I set the hook. I think Rick missed one as well. TR on the other hand was having a real off day and did not manage a strike. The conditions were difficult with the chop, making it difficult to see the sandy area.  Having fished it last weekend we did have an advantage  over TR.

On the plus side, all the redfish were quality mid-slot fish and all gave our line a good stretch.

We fought it all morning and decided at noon that we had best start the dreaded paddle back which would be a mile and a quarter straight into a 15+ mph wind! It was no fun but we made it…just a little wetter than we started out.

Here are some more pics from the Trip: