Member since: March 10, 2018
Capt. Mark’s passion for inshore saltwater fishing began while living in Stuart, Florida at the southern reaches of the Indian River Lagoon. Here he learned the fine art of snook fishing from the area’s lighted bridges while fishing at night. Here too he learned how to catch trout by the hundreds on the expansive flats from Jensen Beach to Ft. Pier
Dreams can and do come true; our dream (Kim’s and mine) to retire to Fort Pierce has become reality, at least for her. I’m not ready for retirement and I’m going to continue running fishing charters from the tidal regions of the Indian River Lagoon ecosystem!
This will be my final report from Titusville. From now on I’ll be chartering and reporting from the Fort Pierce area. My new fishing grounds will extend roughly from Sebastian Inlet to Jensen Beach. I […]
Today’s report is from several North Indian River Lagoon charters. I’ve recently abandoned the Mosquito Lagoon due to dirty water and less than stellar catches. I’m sure things will get back to normal soon, but […]
Well, I enjoyed the nice weather while it lasted… The wind of the past couple of days sure muddied-up most of the Mosquito Lagoon. Still, despite the dirty backwater bays and the wind-blown flats we managed a respectful catch today!
FINALLY, some nice weather and some fantastic fishing along with it! The building moon this week did little to stem the bite in the Mosquito Lagoon. However, we did experience a bit of weirdness early one morning while hiding from the last of the windstorm we’ve been dealing with lately.
Hiding from the gusting winds was pretty easy now that the water levels are up and they should stay this way for the next few months. I personally love fishing high water and while it’s been good, the fishing should actually improve as more and more redfish and trout work their way into the backwaters.
Even the building New Moon couldn’t stop the bite this week. Now that we’re in the Fall season high water cycle and the water temps are slowly cooling you’d be hard pressed to fail as long as you beat the trees!
We didn’t get a lot of fishing in this past week due to the relentless wind. However, if you’re like me, you’re happy Fall is in the air and enjoying the slightly cooler air temps!
We had two noticeable patterns this past week that produced good fishing results in the Mosquito Lagoon. Wind-swept points and flowing water were attracting gamefish taking advantage of small baitfish as they were swept through culvert pipes or across shallow sand bars reaching from shore and tapering towards deeper water.
The fishing was great post Hurricane Dorian, as the redfish, spotted seatrout, black drum and snook went on a feeding rampage. In fact, the fishing remained good, up until TODAY…
It’s good to be back on the platform! The knee injury is well behind me and looking forward to the cooler weather that’s in our near future!
Bill caught a bunch of redfish this morning on the Mosquito Lagoon and finished up with an average-sized trout.
