Mosquito Lagoon Report 2914
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Blog Posts This Week-
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On Monday fly fisher Dalen Mills joined me for a Mosquito Lagoon trip. As soon as I came out of Haulover Canal I was on the compass. The fog was too thick to see anything. I found a fishing spot and there were some sizable reds tailing there. The problems were, as soon as they stopped tailing they were very hard to see, and Dalen couldn’t see them at all if the tails were down. We managed to spook all of them away without getting a bite.
English: Section of Florida map showing east coast from St. John’s River to Mosquito Lagoon, 1839. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Once the fog cleared we went looking in other places. The seatrout left the spot that was so full of them last week, and as a matter of fact we did not see a legal trout all day.
There were no fish of any kind where we looked on Tiger Shoal, and we were there for about an hour.
We worked our way north of George’s Bar, finding a reasonable number of redfish. Dalen had some good shots at tailing fish but they all spooked off his flies. I got one small red on a DOA CAL shad and we each got a small trout and that was it for the day.
On Tuesday fly fisherman William Lynch came down from Jacksonville for some Mosquito Lagoon sight fishing. There was a little fog as we left the dock but nothing like the previous day. We went to the place Dalen and I had found the foggy fish the day before. They were not there.
We spent the day checking spot after spot. Some spots had a few tailers, some spots had no fish at all. WIlliam was unable to convince a fish to take his fly. Wind and clouds made the job difficult. At 4 PM I put the Mirage back on the trailer.
Wednesday I took son Alex to the doctor. Thursday I took him to a surgeon, who re-attached a ligament in his left wrist. He’s now in a cast, but should be as good as new in six weeks.
I wanted to fish Friday and Saturday but a steady, soaking rain talked me out of it. Even though it’s Sunday I may go today.
The water temperature at the Trident Pier as I write this is 67 degrees. The cobia show up when it hits 71. Stay tuned…
And that is this week’s Mosquito Lagoon Report.
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John Kumiski
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