Windy Weekend On The Indian River Lagoon

It was a windy weekend on the Indian River Lagoon which made the fishing almost impossible!

The winds were gusting in excess of 30 mph on the river which made casting challenging, to say the least.

My wife and I, and of course our wonder dog Elmo, tried our best to pick up a redfish or two with no success. The fish were out there but casting to them from shore was just impossible.

I used spoons, jigs, DOA CAL, and Creme paddle tail swim baits without coaxing a single hit from a redfish, and my wife used dead shrimp with the same negative result.

We spoke with one local gentleman, that had a cute Cocker Spaniel riding in the back of his truck tool chest, who said he caught three nice redfish the previous day on "peeled" shrimp.

He saide in his most secretive manner, not to bother paying over $3 a dozen for live shrimp, because they didn't get him a single bite. He told us his "secret" that the reds, for some unknown reason, were only hitting on "peeled" shrimp.

All I know for sure is that he caught redfish the previous day and we didn't.

We decided instead to fish the marsh side of Shiloh Road to try for some trout.

This strategy produced a couple of really dumb trout that had to be starving to death. Only j
joking!

In any event, they were hitting watermelon CAL baits coming off a dropoff, in a section of the river we call Eagle Point. I missed a couple of trout that I could feel hit the lure, and I probably had a few more taps that I couldn't feel because of the brutal wind.

Hopefully, it will calm down a bit tomorrow so we can catch some of those big bruisers.

By the way, the causeway bridge at Parrish Park is still not open to traffic.

It's a long drive to our favorite fishing spots these days!

Till next time, Tight Lines!