Sunday Afternoon Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Outing

Sunday afternoon was much to nice to spend the day inside the hacienda, so my wife, our wonder dog Elmo and yours truly hit the water to try our luck.

The Mosquito Lagoon north of Haulover Canal was calm and the water was very clear, which is par for the course this time of year.

We didn't do much fishing, mostly looking, however several reports we received stated that the redfish were beginning to really school up and some nice ones were being taken on lures imitating finger mullet.

We saw luckless fishermen at Haulover, and moved on towards the Indian River marsh areas in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Again the water was very calm and crystal clear on both sides of the gravel roadway.

We spotted several slot redfish and swirls that I believed to be trout, so I pulled out my Creme paddle tail swimbaits and started fishing the swirls.

My wife fishedwith fresh dead shrimp on her outfit,  in several places, without any luck.

I  hit a couple of schools of sea trout and landed five before they moved on.  All were nice sized keepers, but with the season closed, I returned them to fight another day.  If it wasn't for the closed season, they would have been on the dinner table.  You get of eating turkey leftovers after a while.

We were hoping for some redfish, but today it was not to be. 

Till next time.

Tight lines to all.

P.S.  For all you surf fishermen, I was told that the Pompano are starting to come in on Playalinda Beach at several Lot locations.  Sand fleas and bits of shrimp seem to be doing the trick.