Member since: February 12, 2018
Capt Mike Mann has been fishing his whole life from Bass to Tarpon to Bones I love it all but chasing down Fat Red fish tailing in skinny water is my passion. Summer Tarpon off the beach or in the back country rock, so come get your fish on!
We’ve had a great mixed bag of fishing this week. The black drum bite has continued to be good. Any type of stinky bait fished on a jig-head will typically get them to eat. The lagoon has been loaded with jacks, ladyfish, blues and trout. We also started getting good numbers of tarpon ranging 30 pounds up to 100 pounds!
This past weekend the fishing has been great with good catches of trout, black drum and some really nice mangrove snapper up to 16 inches. The tarpon bite should be turning on over the next two weeks as they start following the baitfish migration up the coast and ICW.
With the full moon this past week we’ve had extremely high and low tides but with the cooler weather and the mullet run starting, it has made the early morning topwater bite really great! Later in the morning as the sun gets up, sight casting on the flats has been really good too. Bull reds as well as upper slot fish remain in the inlet. Tarpon should be showing up in greater numbers over the next week or two.
The beach fishing has turned on this past week with lots of cobia being caught both free swimming and on manta rays. The redfish have shown up in Ponce Inlet as well as a few scattered tarpon in the Halifax River. In the Mosquito Lagoon, baitfish are everywhere allowing for some great topwater fishing as well as sight fishing for reds.
Fishing this past week has been good for black drum, trout and redfish with a few snook mixed in. With the upcoming warmer weather forecast for mid-April I expect the arrival of tarpon and cobia in the Ponce area.
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.
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
