Fishing In The Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Fishing in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge can be extremely productive if you know what you're doing and have a little bit of luck on your side.

Jason Cooper, a fellow angler that I happened to run into this weekend in the refuge sent me some pics of his catches that he recently made so I thought I'd post them for your enjoyment.

This one was caught on 9/14/2013 in the north end of the Indian River on a large finger mullet.

The sea trout below was caught along Peacocks Pocket road on the marsh side last week.

This red was caught on a chunk of ladyfish last Friday.

The two reds below were caught off Bio Lab road in the Mosquito Lagoon on live mullet. 

This is one area I love to wade fish with top water plugs and weedless gold spoons.

The grass flats off Bio Lab road are pretty much under fished and are loaded with sea trout, redfish,  jacks, black drum and big sheepshead.  

 

And finally another Peacocks Pocket redfish caught on live bait in one of the  areas that I often fish.

Fishing in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge can be an extremely "iffy" proposition, but if you have the patience and a little bit of luck,  you too can catch fish like these.

By the way, Jason and I both practice "catch and release".  Almost all of the fish pictured were oversize and all were released to fight another day.

Fishing in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge can be productive throughout the entire year.

Thanks Jason and till next time, Tight Lines to you all.