| Central Florida Sight Fishing Charters Daytona Beach Fishing Guide Light Tackle and Fly Fishing Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River July 17, 2009 |
| You have reached an archived fishing report for the Daytona Beach area from Central Florida Sight Fishing Charters. If you need a Daytona Beach Fishing Guide, contact me at 321-229-2848. I provide professional guided fishing charters in Mosquito Lagoon and the Indian River year round. Sight fish the saltwater flats for redfish, drum, trout, and tarpon. I provide all licenses, baits, and fishing tackle. Serving all of central Florida including Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach, Orlando, Titusville, and Cocoa Beach. This July has been anything but typical for the first two weeks of the month. The water level is higher than usual and the normally slick calm mornings have been few and far between. Places that have held lots of tailing redfish during recent summers have not been very productive and the big tarpon have yet to arrive in our inshore waters. The big redfish have been around but seeing and keeping on them with the clouds and wind has been challenging. During trips early in the month, my clients caught plenty of trout and had shots at plenty of redfish. With the southern end of Mosquito Lagoon closed for over a week due to several failed attempts to launch the space shuttle, I decided to spend a day last week looking for snook and tarpon. While I only saw one tarpon, I did find some snook to thirty inches that were willing to eat a four inch DOA CAL in silver mullet. Trout were plentiful and a 31 inch redfish was happy to eat a black rabbit fur fly I cast to him. This Monday, my clients unexpectedly arrived with three anglers. We all piled on board and headed out to look for some snook. After missing several strikes at our first stop, we made a short move. On the next four casts, they hooked and lost a nice snook and landed a smaller one. We spent some time catching trout along the edge of a flat waiting for the clouds to blow over. When the sun came out, I poled up onto the flat and we immediately began seeing redfish. Sight fishing with three anglers did not work out well so we spent the remainder of the day catching trout. Wednesday, I fished with Sam and his friend Kevin, the guitar player for the rock band The Offspring. Kevin started the day by landing a jack and then a snook on a four inch CAL. Sam had several strikes but no hookups. Next we tried fishing a school of large redfish that turned out to be very uncooperative. After landing a handful of trout, we encountered a few redfish and plenty of black drum. They caught a few more trout before Kevin, who had played a concert in another state the previous night, finally ran out of energy. Friday, I had the pleasure of fishing with Konrad Krauland, the inventor and former owner of Power Pro fishing line along with his friend Maurice. The fishing was fun but the catching was less than average. We encountered lots of cloudy water, floating grass and lats of other boats. We saw a few redfish and black drum but only the trout were willing to cooperate. Other anglers we spoke to found the fishing tough as well. Hopefully, the coming weeks will bring more normal weather and the tarpon will begin showing up. Baitfish of all kinds can be found everywhere you go. Trout, ladyfish and jacks are usually willing to bend a rod if you find the redfish difficult to fool. A three inch CAL on a 1/4 ounce jig will catch a variety of fish. |
| Daytona Beach Fishing Guide Capt. Chris Myers Fly and Light tackle fishing in Mosquito Lagoon 321-229-2848 |