Central Florida Sight Fishing Charters
Daytona Beach Fishing Guide
Light Tackle and Fly
Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River
June 10, 2009
This is an archived fishing report from central Florida Sight Fishing Charters. If you are looking for a Daytona
Beach Fly Fishing Guide or want to fish the inshore salt waters of east central Florida, contact me at
321-229-2848. I offer fully guided fishing charters on Mosquito Lagoon. I specialize in sight fishing the flats for
redfish, seatrout, drum, and tarpon. Our fishing is great all year round. You can check out my latest Daytona and
Central Florida Fishing Report page for up to date information. You can also get more information on fly fishing
charters here on Fly Fishing Mosquito Lagoon.


Fishing in Mosquito Lagoon has been very good the past couple weeks with plenty of large redfish along with
trout, big ladyfish, voracious bluefish, and tarpon.

Sunday the 14th, New Jersey anglers Eric and Tom had shots at full grown redfish before the sun even broke
the horizon. Before long, the fish took off for deeper water and we moved up shallow to look for tailing reds.
Throughout the first few hours of the day, we consistently encountered singles and small pods of reds cruising
the flat. It was their first time fishing for spooky Florida redfish and their casts never quite hit the mark. I decided
to move out to the edges of the flats for some jigging and top water action. Trout, ladyfish, sail catfish, and
bluefish were willing to  eat and provided plenty of entertainment.

Tuesday, I fished with John, a fly angler from Britain. One of the best fly casters I have fished with, John was
connected to his first Mosquito Lagoon redfish as soon as we could see the tails.





















After releasing the first fish, we tried several schools of 20-30 pound redfish. Despite some excellent casts, the
fish were spooking before the fly line hit the water. We gave up on the big reds and moved up shallow.
Unfortunately, the same thing happened throughout the morning. John had a few follows and bites but most fish
spooked before seeing the fly. John threw a popper in deeper water and had several fish attack his fly landing
one ladyfish.

Friday, I was joined by Carmello, his son Giancarlo, and his son's friend Brian. Withing thirty minutes, both boys
has landed their largest redfish which weighed in at 18 and 26 pounds.








































We tried two more schools of large redfish and Giancarlo hooked into a 27 pound fish which turned out to be the
largest of the day.




















The rest of the morning was spent enjoying some great topwater action on the outer edges of the flats which
resulted in trout, bluefish, ladyfish, jack crevalle,  and sail catfish.

Sunday, the objective was to catch large seatrout. I had my client Jerry start off throwing a DOA CAL/Chughead
combo around some shallow mullet schools. He landed a few smaller trout and had a few more bites. At our
second stop, we spotted some of the target species in the sand holes but caught only redfish. As the day wore
on, the weather deteriorated and we encountered a stiff north wind and clouds. With sight fishing nearly
impossible, we Jerry was forced to blind cast the rest of the day. While we saw some large trout as they saw
away from us, the big one never made it to the boat.

Great fishing will continue throughout the summer. With the variety of fish available, you can always find
something to bend a rod.
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Capt. Chris Myers
Fly and Light tackle fishing in Mosquito Lagoon
321-229-2848