Fishing Report – Ormond Beach Night Fishing

Sat. May 26, 2013
Weather: 79 deg. at launch, Mostly clear
Wind: moderate southeast winds, 6-8 mph
Water: Water stained from runoff and muddy, light chop.
Target Fish:  Trout
Fish caught: (1) Ladyfish, (13)  Trout ,  (1) Mangrove Snapper

I went on a night op with my brother Darin last night to fish some dock lights in Ormond Beach. The night before he caught about 20 trout fishing a live shrimp under a cork.

It was a little windy to suite me but there was one pretty sunset going down.

We stopped at some open water structure to do some plugging. I was throwing one of my favorite search plugs……a ghost minnow. It is a shallow running lip bait and a suspending twitch. I think it’s really a fresh water plug but it has held up well in the saltwater. I have caught a pile of trout on this thing and you can cover water pretty quickly with it.

The first fish of the evening turned out to be a nice ladyfish that struck right at the boat…..so close that when I set the hook I skipped her right into the boat and out the other side.

It was about another 10 minutes before I caught the first trout but the bite turned on like you flipped a switch. I caught about 5 fish back to back, nearly every cast. Darin was fishing a live shrimp and caught a small mangrove snapper but couldn’t find a trout. Finally he tied on a blue/chrome lipped plug and managed to land two trout before the bite petered out.

It was getting dark so we headed off to fish some dock lights.

The bite was pretty slow under the docks we fished. We saw a few trout strike under the light but only managed to catch 5-6 in several hours of fishing. All of those took a like shrimp except one that I caught on the ghost minnow.

We called it off about midnight and headed for the launch.

The river seems to be full of trout right now. They are now large so down size your equipment. We only kept 4-5 of the 13-14 we caught.

Good Luck,

Larry S.

P.S. Here’s a short video of the trip……….