August 27, 2006 - East Central Florida Fishing Report from Capt. Chris Myers. Your guide to the best fishing near Orlando!  Offering Charters in the Mosquito Lagoon, Indian River and Banana River. This week began with a search for more tarpon. Monday, Dave Griffin and I visited the Indian River to look for the tarpon that had been so cooperative last week. We found a few but not nearly as many as there had been. We searched a few more areas throughout the river but saw none. We returned to our first spot and after several hours, Dave put a fish in the hundred pound class in the air with a rootbeer TerrorEyz. The fish threw the hook and the action died. Tuesday, I chartered Dennis and Brad Prokopowicz in the Mosquito Lagoon. Brad was visiting from New York and Dennis wanted to show him some of our big redfish. The fish were plentiful and the boat traffic light with perfect weather conditions. Both brothers caught  several nice redfish caught from different schools. The redfish action slowed so we stopped around some mullet schools in 2-3 feet of water and threw out the trusty DOA shrimp under a cajun thunder. Dennis used rootbeer and Brad had a glow shrimp. Both colors produced about the same amount of fish and both caught fish over 20 inches. All were released to fight again another day. Wednesday, I joined Capt. Tom Van Horn on his boat for some fishing out of Port Canaveral. The water along the beach was cool and we had to run south past Satellite beach to find menhaden. The bait was sparse and so were the fish. We saw a few small tarpon around the bait school but our offerings went untouched. We ran out to the end of the buoy line and found large schools of small sardines and pilchards. We trolled around the bait schools and down the buoy line. The only fish to take our baits was one small barracuda. As most of my trips out of the Port have been this year, the catching was slow. Thursday, I decided to try the waters outside Ponce Inlet after hearing a report of some big tarpon there the day before. Heading south out of the inlet, we soon discovered birds diving on what was a solid mass of menhaden along the beach for miles. We loaded the livewell and went looking for tarpon. We only saw a few small poons. We headed out to some deeper water east of the inlet and soon found big schools of herring. The first bait was not in the water for two minutes when it was inhaled by this nice jack crevalle. Although we continued to see bait being busted and birds working the area, we never had another strike. We used both menhaden and threadfin herring on wire and mono, trolling and drifting. We went back to the river and lightning ran us off the water before we could find a productive spot 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.