The fishing has been on fire on the east central coast with tripletail being caught off the beach and cobia on the chamber of commerce days following rays in 65 feet of water. The Mosquito Lagoon has been on fire with extremely shallow clean, cold, clear water for trout and redfish. Expect the black drum to start showing themselves over the next seven days with the clear cold nights.

Redfish are schooled up and will jump on a finger mullet, jumbo shrimp or a well-placed paddle-tail. With the approaching cold front I would expect the schools to get larger with the low clean water. I have several days open over the next two weeks so book a charter and let’s go catch some fish!

The fishing has been very consistent with fish being caught on paddle tails on a jig head or a jig head tipped with shrimp or mullet free lined. The redfish should be starting to school up in the next week or two with the cooler weather. Black drum are being caught around oyster bars, sand bars ad some of the docks along the ICW.

The fishing has been pretty good in the Mosquito Lagoon over the last week with some really good sight casting in the clear cool water. With another big blast of cold air coming through this week I anticipate the fishing to continue to get better. Redfish, trout, and black drum with the occasional flounder mixed in is what you should expect this time of year.

This is the time of year the sight fisherman have been waiting for! The water in Mosquito Lagoon is clear and the redfish are easily spotted cruising the shallow flats. They are eating consistently too. A well placed paddle tail on an 1/8 ounce jig head, fly or shrimp will get their attention.

Fishing in the river has been great with good numbers of pompano, black drum, seatrout, redfish and snook being caught. The strong cold front we have pushing through this week should really turn the sight fishing on with clean clear water. This is one of my favorite times of year to fish Mosquito Lagoon!

The fishing at Ponce Inlet has continued to be really good for bull redfish as well as black drum. There have been a few founder mixed in as well. On channel markers, triple-tail are still being caught in decent numbers. Some good news, I have noticed the water in the lagoon is starting to clean up with the cooler temperatures.

Fishing for bull reds has still been great at Ponce! Tarpon have been hanging around the inlet on changing tides and the tripletail bite has been hot, hot, hot!

Large redfish are still in the inlet as well as tarpon and the occasional snook. We are also catching tripletail by the channel markers. Inshore the trout bite has remained solid using pigfish or top water first thing in the morning.

The bull red fishing has been on fire with the snook and tarpon action pretty good, too. The best catches have been on live mullet using a circle hook. Find them using your bottom graph then post up and wait for the excitement!

Ally with a nice first mosquito lagoon red

Capt. Mike Mann put Cobia on the dinner menu for his customers today!

A juvenile tarpon caught with Capt. Mike Mann

Memphis and his dad, Chris, had a fun day fishing the Mosquito Lagoon with Capt. Mike Mann. This black drum is one of a bunch of fish that they caught, including some nice reds, sheepsheads, and seatrout.

Zander got this nice black drum to eat fishing with Fat Fish Guide Service in the Mosquito Lagoon.

Bill from New York had a great two days of fishing the mosquito lagoon with Fat Fish Guide Service.

Capt. Mike Mann really whacked the fish today with Justin and Hayley.

Max caught his first red casting and working the bait himself.

Colin made it happen reeling in this nice spotted sea trout