Fishing has been good lately and getting better with the late season cold front. Black drum, redfish and trout have been eating well on live free lined shrimp. After the cold front and toward the start of April look for tarpon to be showing up as well as cobia and tripletail.

The fishing has been great this week with artificial baits being the top producers. Redfish and trout have been readily eating topwater baits early and then soft plastic jerk baits later in the morning.

The fishing has been on fire this week for trout and redfish in the Mosquito Lagoon! We have experienced our best catches using topwater and soft plastics. Our strategy has been to target the shorelines since the water is a little higher right now.

Schools of redfish have been consistently eating live finger mullet or Z-Man paddle-tails all week. A lot of fish have been found along the shorelines with the higher full moon. With warm weather expected this week the fish should be even more aggressive.

The fishing has been great this week targeting big schools of redfish. I have seen schools of up to 100 fish. If targeting trout, the bite has been best using a jig head with a natural colored paddle-tail.

Fishing has been great with the clear water and the fish have been chewing! Shrimp tipped jig heads or a 1/8 ounce jig head with a Z-Man bad shad colored paddle-tail will get the job done. Black drum have been schooling in the deeper edges and will eat a 1/8 ounce jig head with a live shrimp on it.

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.

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