This fish was NOT caught by me this week.
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Blog posts this week: Trip Planning
Sunday afternoon I went to the St. Johns River on a shad hunt. In a little more than two hours only two bites were had. Both were missed, and nary a fish came aboard. Rain chased me off the river.
Monday Steve Timmons joined me on the Mosquito Lagoon. The fish are continuing in their spooky ways and we only got a few trout.
Tuesday I was supposed to fish Sue Cocking. I called her Monday night and told her not to drive up. As it turned out it was a good call- the weather Tuesday was awful, windy and rainy.
Windy Wednesday fly fisher Eric Malmbourg joined me on Mosquito Lagoon. There were fish on Tiger Shoal that wouldn’t eat, in spite of a few excellent shots. The fish were gone from a couple other spots. At the end of the trip we found some reds on the south side of an island, where they were out of the wind. Again Eric had a few good shots but no bites. He ended up with one dink trout for our efforts.
On Friday the weather was marginal but I took the kayak out of River Breeze to see if it was still possible to catch a redfish on a fly. In spite of the overcast I found a school of fish in a big white hole and even wading I could hardly get near them. In three hours I did get two on a slider.
The clouds cleared, the sun came out, and I found some nice fish tailing. Although they were also pretty spooky I managed to get two more, much nicer fish. The bigger one was pushing ten pounds. After I got those two, though, all the other stopped tailing and apparently disappeared.
It turned out to be a beautiful afternoon. I did not want to leave.
On Saturday I had seven folks for the Show and Tell Seminar. It was cold and windy but otherwise it went well. Wendy Radwan emailed me, “I wanted to thank you so much for your time and efforts for the seminar yesterday. You could see that I took copious amounts of notes, and I’m excited to read your book and to try out some sites along the dikes.” Thank you, Wendy!
On Sunday I had four folks for two on-the-water show and tell sessions. Oh yeah, it was Alaska weather, cold and windy. At least it wasn’t raining! We circumnavigated the Mosquito Lagoon once in the morning and again with a different crew in the afternoon. We didn’t see a fish either time, except when coming back into Haulover Canal at the end of the day we watched a nice black drum get caught..
And that is this week’s exciting version of the Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Report.
Life is great and I love my work!
Life is short. Go Fishing!
John Kumiski
http://www.spottedtail.com
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