Central Florida Sight Fishing Charters
Florida Flats Fishing Trips
Light Tackle and Fly
Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River
April 27, 2008
Last week, I fished only one day, due to poor weather.  Thursday, my wife
joined me on the Mosquito Lagoon. Despite high winds much of the day, we
spotted a decent number of redfish once the clouds passed through. Nine
redfish and one drum was our final tally.  Morning Glory and Watermelon
Seed DOA CALs were the colors of the day.

































































This week, I was joined on Tuesday by Joe and his two sons. We saw a lot of
redfish but most of the fish never saw the lures. After striking out with the
reds, we tried trout fishing for a while but only landed four. The last hour was
spent casting to some more redfish but the guys were blanked again.

Wednesday, honeymooners Rusty and Becky joined me for a day of some
poor weather but great fishing. We began the morning trying to catch some
early season tarpon. We saw a few but did not get a bite. The rest of the
morning, we endured some extremely high winds but managed to land nine
drum and two redfish.  Becky shows off her first drum while Rusty is busy
fighting one of his own.


































































Thursday, Wayne, a central Florida resident, treated British angler Shawn to
his first trip to Mosquito Lagoon. Shawn landed the first two redfish of the
day and then hooked up with a nice trout on a 4 inch DOA CAL in Arkansas
Glow.























The guys hooked up with three more trout even larger but each one
managed to throw the hook before we landed them. We saw hundreds of
redfish throughout the day but they refused to eat unless the presentation
was perfect. Wayne finally fooled this redfish that was following a large
stingray.






















Friday, I went searching for tarpon and snook. I found plenty of both. The
tarpon were a bit smaller than I had hoped for but most of the snook I saw
were much larger than I expected. The tarpon, which are notoriously finicky,
were feeding well. Using a 3 inch DOA holographic shrimp, I jumped five and
landed three. I had bites from more than a dozen others that did not get
hooked. On the other hand, many of the snook showed little interest in
eating. I caught two, missed a few other bites, and had one in the 15-20
pound range  weave my line through a maze of tree branches before
breaking off. All of the bites came on the holographic shrimp.
Central Florida Fishing Charter
Capt. Chris Myers
Fly and Light Tackle Fishing in Mosquito Lagoon
321-229-2848