| August 11, 2006 - Central Florida Fishing Guide - Capt. Chris Myers Fishing Report During the past several weeks, I had the opportunity to do some fishing for myself in one of my favorite spots. My wife and I spent two weeks in Stuart, Florida where I fished every day. The catching was consistent with a wide variety of fish caught including tarpon, snook, tripletail, snapper, sheephead, little tunny, bluefish, ladyfish, jacks, grouper, and lookdowns. We caught some of the fish using live pilchards but most of them were caught on fly or soft plastics. The DOA Terror Eyz, Baitbuster, and Swimming Mullet fooled many of our tarpon and almost all of the snook. The biggest snook came around the bridges in deep water but we also caught them around mangrove shorelines and docks. Tripletail could be found around channel markers in the Indian River and the tarpon were in Little Mud Creek and the upper St. Lucie River. We caught tarpon from 10 to 100 pounds and on one day we jumped around 20 and got seven to the boat. The area around the St. Lucie Inlet offers a wide variety of both fish and fishing locations. Below are a few shots of our catches. A snook in the 20 lb class caught on a red/white DOA Baitbuster Another big snook which ate a DOA Swimming Mullet. The red/white baitbuster scores again: A St Lucie River tarpon which ate a rootbeer Terror Eyz: A second fish caught on the Terror Eyz: The Terror Eyz even fooled this sheephead: This tarpon was not too happy: This Tuesday, I was back working in the Mosquito Lagoon. During my absence, the water level had dropped about eight inches leaving many areas high and dry. Don Mathis and Paul Fondo joined me and we managed to find a school of big redfish. Paul hooked up first. Not to be outdone, Don caught a nice fish of his own. Paul caught another big red before we moved on to some trout fishing. Using a DOA shrimp under a cajun thunder cork, the guys caught a dozen or so trout around the mullet schools. Finding the bait schools is an important factor when searching for fish, Not all the bait schools will have fish around them, but if there is no bait around, it's a good bet there are no fish there either. Visit my HOME page for information on how you can experience some of the best fishing near Orlando, Florida. Full and half day charters available in the Mosquito Lagoon and the inshore salt waters of the east central Florida coast. |
