Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing

SUPPORT COPY: Your April 2026🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2026-04-01T00:05:07-04:00

Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 201 April 1, 2026



Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River: Now that springtime is in full swing, the fishing is getting really good in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River. The water levels are down and the water is clear, which is great for sight fishing. The black drum bite in all our lagoons systems continues to be "on fire" and the redfish are still schooled up and eager to eat. In the Mosquito Lagoon the fishing guides are reporting huge schools of black drum (some estimated at over 1,000 fish) tailing on the shallow grass flats in the early morning hours or schooling up in the deeper holes when the wind picks up. In the Indian River from Titusville to Melbourne, the best bite is reported to be around the Max Brewer Bridge and the Jensen Beach Causeway. Some big black drum are being caught tight to just abouit any structure; particularly the oyster bars and bridge pilings in the river. In the Banana River near Cocoa Beach and Merritt Island, the bite has been consistent for smaller "puppy drum" in the 5 to 15 pound catergory. The slot size fish are scattered mostly around the dock pilings and bridge fenders. Large schools have been moving through the deeper channels in these areas. With the April 1st full moon approaching, we can expect one last major push of big females moving into the shallows to spawn in all of these areas. For big black drum, a fresh quartered blue crab is by far the preferred bait of choice. For slot-sized drum, most anglers prefer using live or frozen shrimp, or sand fleas. April is a prime month to catch gator sea trout in East Central Florida, especially on topwater baits. As the flats heat up, the seatrout will be feeding heavily before their spawning season which runs from May through late summer. During this same time period throughout our lagoon system, baitfish like pigfish, pinfish, croakers, mullet and mojarra start moving back into the seagrass beds to spawn. This convergence makes for some great topwater fishing. Sea trout are low light hunters that feed best early in the morning and at sunset, which is the best time to cast topwater plugs like the Chug Bug, Badonk-A-Donk, Skitter Walk, Zara Spook, or anything resembling a baitfish to catch them. As the water warms up, usually around 9:00 am, the topwater bite will die down and the fish will move into the deeper water along the drop offs adjacent to the flats. This is when plastic swim baits like Creme's Spoiler Shad, D.O.A. Cal Shad Tails, and saltwater Shad Assassin baits can be used to get down to the fish. Large baits over 6" will catch larger trophy size trout but 3″ to 5″ paddle tail baits will generally entice more bites, especially when some Pro-Cure Gel is smeared on the bait. The Northern section of the Mosquito Lagoon near New Smyrna Beach is currently the hotest spot for "Gator" trout over 25 inches in our area. Target the sandy potholes and light-colored spots in the middle of the grass flats where the larger trout often sit motionless waiting to ambush baitfish. In the Indian River from Titusville down to Melbourne, you can find big trout along the deeper grass edges around any kind of structure in 3 to 5 feet of water. As the sun warms the water throughout the day, the fish move into "skinny" water (less than 2 feet) to sun themselves. The "No-Motor-Zone" in the Banana River is also holding solid numbers of larger fish in extremely shallow water where they are often mixed in with the schools of redfish and black drum. During the winter months sea trout primarily feed on shrimp. Although the trout will still eat shrimp, the larger gator size trout are currently transitioning to a fish heavy diet. Natural colored 5 inch jerkshads, live pinfish or pigfish, and topwater baits work best for the bigger "sows. Redfish schools in the lagoon system are transitioning from their massive winter congregations into smaller, more active spring groups. The Northern and central sections of the Mosquito Lagoon from George's Bar up to around J.D.s Fish Camp remains a top spot for schools of 10 to 50 fish, with occasional pods of 200 fish or more still holding in the deeper sloughs and potholes during the cooler morning hours. Look for them in the shallow grass flats between New Smyrna Beach and the Kennedy Space Center Schools of 10 to 50 fish are the norm right now, with occasional larger pods of 200+ still holding in deeper sloughs and "potholes" during cooler mornings. Look for them in the shallow grass flats between New Smyrna Beach and the Kennedy Space Center throughout the day. In the Indian River from Titusville to Melbourne the redfish have already dispersed and can be found around the oyster bars and the shallow grass flats. Fish in this area are often intermingled with large sea trout and sometimes black drum. In the Banana River around Cocoa Beach, the bite for smaller slot size and "rat reds" is steady around the edges of the mangroves and docks. Undersize fish are abundant in this area right now and are being caught mainly on live shrimp. As the water warms you can find the fish aggressively tailing in the grass as they search for shrimp and crabs. On calm mornings you can often see the V shaped wakes the cruising reds make as they travel from one area to another. Gold spoons, 3 inch DOA shrimp, and topwater plugs are staples that will catch reds just about anywhere. For skinny water, unweighted or light 1/8th oz. jigheads, or small Creme paddletail baits work best. Fly fishermen using tan or olive colored shrimp and crab patterns in size 2 to 6 have been catching some nice tailing reds in skinny water throughout the lagoon system. The key right now is to be stealthy when sight fishing for redfish. The water in the lagoon system is quite clear in most areas. Although most of the fish in the lagoon system are in the 24 to 27 inch range, Bull Redfish over 40 inches are beginning to show up more frequently in the shallows as we head into April, especially in the northernmost section of the Indian River across from the Scotsmoor boat launch. Although the snook in the northern backwaters of the Mosquito Lagoon took a pretty good hit during this past February freeze, they are still being caught around the sandy potholes on the flats as they sun themselves. On sunny afternoons, look for snook in extremely shallow (1–2 feet) water over dark, muddy bottoms or in the sandy pot holes. The fish are there to soak up the heat and will often hit a well presented fly or unweighted soft plastic bait. In the Indian River, the snook bite is very consistent around the bridge and dock pilings, especially at night. The snook have been staging in these areas as the move towards the inlets and are aggressively hitting live baits, jigs, and lipped diving plugs. Live shrimp is currently the most reliable "go to" bait for dock or bridge fishing but DOA Shrimp, Vudu Shrimp, and white bucktail jigs have also been catching good numbers of snook. On calm mornings when the water temperatures hit the 70 degree mark, you can get explosive strikes on topwater plugs like the Skitter Walk and Zara Spook. The night bite in most areas has been outperforming the day bite, especially around the fenders and shadow lines of the SR-520 and A. Max Brewer bridges. A fresh jumbo live shrimp tipped on a jig head is a hard bait to beat for black drum, snook, redfish, and larger sea trout in any of these areas..

Along the beaches just inside of Port Canaveral, Ponce and Sebastian Inlets where there is a tidal influence; good numbers of snook up to 38 inches are being caught. Most of these fish are being caught on live shrimp but croakers, spots, and most other live baits are also working well.

Playalinda and Area Beaches:

The pompao, whiting and black drum bite at area beaches has been just short of phenomenal for the past couple of weeks or so. For whatever reason, whiting migrate en masse through Central Florida beaches during April and hang around all month feeding on sand fleas, coquina clams, and other small crustaceans.

Loca surf fishermen have been reporting consistent catches of keeper pompano and so called "bull" whiting on sand fleas, small pieces of live shrimp, and clam strips with and without fishbites. Ideal conditions for whiting and pompano are a clean, greenish colored surf with waves in the two to three foot range.

Standard two and three hook pompano rigs with a variety of colored floats are taking the majority of fish along with some nice size juvenile black drum. Personally, I prefer a two hook surf rig with a 20 pound fluorocarbon leader, #1 short shank live bait hooks, and a 3 oz pyramid or Sputnik sinker to hold bottom.

During heavy surf conditions, clam flavored fishbites tipped over a live or dead sand flea has become one of the baits of choice for many surf fishermen in our area. The sand flea, fishbites tipped combo stays on the hook longer and keeps the sand flea from rotating off the hook during a cast or in a rough surf.

Big whiting much prefer live baits, not the freezer burned stuff. Fresh sandfleas or freshly peeled shrimp are by far the best baits for withing; with quality frozen shrimp as a good second choice.

Surf anglers fishing with live mullet or cut baits this month can expect to catch bluefish, Spanish mackerel, and a variety of sharks off the beach.

Right now farther out from the sand in the first troughs and just past the breakers; some sizeable schools of bluefish in the 15 to 25 pound category, along with some nice schools of Spanish mackerel are meandering down the beach.

Surf anglers with long rods can occasionally target these fish by tossing small silver spoons, Gotcha plugs, Lhure Jensen spoons and Mirrolures past the breakers.

When the bait pods are thick in the surf and the Mackerel and blufish come in to feast on them, artificial baits can be deadly.

Farther south of us around the worm rocks off the beaches at Patrick Space Force Base, surf fishermen are making good catches of bull whiting, palmetto, snook, juvenile black drum, and some keeper pompano. Sand fleas and live shrimp are baits of choice around the Treasure Coast with fish gum.

As water temperatures continue to warm up in the surf, the bite for whiting, croaker, juvenile black drum, bluefish and Spanish mackerel is expected to improve dramatically, especially for whiting.

Shark fishing enthusiasts will find a nice variety of larger species in the surf and just out past the breakers this month. Blacktips, bull harks, hammerheads, and a lot of large sandbar sharks have been wandering closer to shore just outside of the breakers.

Chunked baits, live baits, and fresh shrimp are all good baits for juvenile blacktips.

For larger sharks, most anglers use large chunks of bonito, tuna heads, stingray wings, or whole fish carcass for bait on large circle hooks with wire leaders and stout terminal tackle.

When specifically fishing for sharks from the beach or from land; remember to complete the free FWC land based shark course and carry the permit on your person

To get the permit, you need to take an educational course at MyFWC.com/SharkCourse which consists of a quiz and some educational videos. After you create an account and pass the test, (which you can re-take if you fail) your certificate will have an ID code unique to you.

Port Canaveral Nearshore and Offshore:

Although the celebrated "March Madness" at Port Canaveral has concluded, lots of cobia are still migrating into our area.

The cobia migration along Florida’s Space Coast peaks in the spring. As nearshore and offshore water temperatures climb into the 68°F to 75°F range, cobia begin to move northward into our area from southern Florida waters. Better numbers of cobia normally begin showing up off Cape Canaveral between late March and early May.

With our nearshore water temperatures now in the 72 to 75 degree mark, we are seeing better numbers of cobia shadowing the manta rays and holding around the navigation buoys and towers, channel markers, color breaks and areas where baitfish congregate.

Right now nearshore anglers can find both cobia and tripletail hanging around the marker buoys, weed lines, and other floating near shore structure out of Port Canaveral. The fish should continue to be with us in even better numbers throughout the month.

With the West wall of the Gulf Stream currently around 34 nautical miles east of Port Canaveral, anglers willing to endure the recent wind conditions are reporting a highly productive bite rfor Mahi, blackfin tuna, and sailfish.

Dolphin fishing peaks this month in the Gulf Stream off Central Florida. The Southeasterly trade winds push sargassum, debris, and flying fish up against the western wall of the current, creating a virtual highway for mahi. A "hard edge" formed by the recent swells and dirty inshore water is also helping to make the offshore mahi easy to locate.

Mahi are notoriously short strikers which is why trolling spreads for mahi are generally with small baits. Small ballyhoo are easily swallowed by the fish and a couple of small naked lures behind a bird or teaser usually makes for easier hookups. Because dolphin are curious fish, a daisy chain of plastic squid, birds, or "bowling pins" is always helpful in getting the attention of these aggressive green monsters.

The bite for sailfish and wahoo has also been very good along the edges of the Gulf Stream and the deeper reef lines. Some nice blackfin tuna are being caught mixed in with the trolled spreads, particularly near the 21 and 27 Fathom Ridges.

For those anglers not able to make the full run to the Gulf Stream, the intermediate reefs are providing steady action for king mackerel. On the 8A and Pelican Reefs, the kingfish run is in full swing with some "smoker" kings up to 40 lbs being reported recently. Slow trolled frozen minnows or live baits on stinger rigs over the reefs will generally produce kingfish in the 10 pound range. Larger kings are normally caught closer to shore during the spring months.

Right now trolling dead cigar minnows or ballyhoo has been more consistent than live baits, which have been difficult to find recently due to the rougher seas.

As we progress into the summer months, the bite for both mahi and kingfish on the 70 to 90 foot reefs will continue to improve

After being virtually non-existent in our waters for almost a decade, the black sea bass are beginning to make a comeback off Port Canaveral and Sebastian Inlet.

Black sea bass are one of the most aggressive bottom species and are being caught in water as shallow as 50 feet; out to the 90 foot reefs. The fish will usually pounce on a bait before any snapper has a chance. Chicken rigs with circle hooks and sliding sinker rigs both work well on lighter tackle for these fish. Larger fish will occasionally hit jigs tipped with a strip bait or squid.

In federal Atlantic waters, the fish must measure 13" total length with a 7 fish per person bag limit.

Bottom fishing out of Port Canaveral this month around the wrecks and reefs should be good for a variety of species includiong triggerfish, lane snapper, mangrove snapper, mutton snapper, vermillion snapper, black sea bass, amberjack, cobia, and African pompano. Squid, sardines, pilchards, chunked reef fish, and live baits all work well on bottom species. Keeping a pitch rod handy while targeting bottom fish is always a good idea in the event a cobia shows up.

Some bottom fishing anglers specifically target 20 to 40 pound African pompano this month with white bucktail jigs, butterfly jigs, or flashy live baits suspended 20 to 30 feet off of structure in 120 to 300 feet of water.

Nearshore shark fishing is still providing nonstop action for everybody and has been on fire for hammerheads, bulls, blacktips and plenty of larger sandbar sharks. The wrecks in the 80 to 120 foot depths are also holding some very large goliath groupers.

Port Canaveral and all of the inlets is a "hot zone" right now for massive schools of 70lb plus black drum ("Big Uglies"). Schools were reported last week just outside the Port and near the jetties as they move through during their spring spawn.

Haulover Canal:

The bite for black drum and redfish in Haulover Canal has been relatively consistent for anglers fishing with sections of live blue crab and chunks of fresh cut ladyfish or mullet for bait.

Anglers tossing live shrimp around the bridge pilings are still catching some keeper mangrove snapper and an occasional slot size black drum.

Boaters fishing the deep holes at the entrances to the canal are reporting catches of black drum and redfish on select jumbo shrimp, half of a blue crab, live pinfish, and chunk baits.

Many anglers fish the banks of the canal for sea trout and big snook. Your best bet for catching a big snook or gator size speckled sea trout is to toss a live jumbo shrimp tight along the banks under the mangroves.

Shrimping at Haulover Canal should be ramping up this month with some good pulls of jumbos expected. Night shrimping along the banks of the canal is usually very productive when the wind generates a decent current.

Unlike the smaller shrimp that are generally caught in the vacinity of Oak Hill; Haulover shrimp are consistently much larger.

Anglers targeting the bull redfish and oversize black drum in the canal gear up with heavy rods, 30 to 60 pound Power Pro or other brand, 30 pound and heavier fluorocarbon leaders, 8/0 circle hooks, and enough weight to hold bottom. The braid is more forgivng to abrasion from the coquina.

Don't forget to check out the fishing deals on the link below.

Until next time,
Tight Lines and bent rods!

1575 Silk Oak Ave,
Titusville, FL
32796, USA

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SUPPORT COPY: Your March 2026🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2026-03-01T00:14:44-05:00

Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 200 March 1, 2026

Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River:

Since the cold front, the bite in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River has been pretty good for black drum, sheepshead, sea trout and redfish.

The freezing weather we experienced in East Central Florida a couple weeks ago lowered water temperatures in the lagoon system and cleared up the water for some great sight fishing, however, in many areas it was also responsible for killing a lot of snook and tarpon.

The redfish and black drum bite in the Mosquito Lagoon just before the front hit was a little bit slow but several nice schools of drum were found by anglers poling along the flats in the south and middle sections of the lagoon. Live shrimp and cut baits were baits of choice on these fish.

The warming trend we have been experiencing for the past week or so is gradually raising the water temperatures into the 65 to 66 degree range which will greatly improve the bite for all our inshore species. With the relatively consistent weather conditions forecast for the next couple of weeks, the bite along the Space Coast should significantly improve

As of this post, the black drum and redfish are still schooled up in the Mosquito Lagoon but they are very spooky. Tolling motors are out definitely out of the question with poling as the best option to get up on a school. Using lighter tackle with long casts is suggested when targeting these fish.

Some of the schools we encountered are mixed drum and redfish. Live baits are generally working better than artificial baits right now but plastic DOA Shrimp and Creme Paddletail baits have been producing well around the schools, especially when smeared up with some lasting scent like Pro-Cure Inshore formula gel.

Heavyweight oversize black drum will be staging around Brevard's causeways in the Indian and Banana River lagoons this month. Look for them among the pilings and sunken structure in deeper areas of the lagoon particularly where there is an abundance of crabs, shrimp, or oysters.

East Central Florida anglers can expect to catch drum in the 20 to 40 pound or more category in these areas especially at night or during low light conditions with whole, or half of a fresh blue crab as the bait of choice.

Although bank fishermen have access to oversize black drum around the bridge pilings and deep water docks in our area, the best way to ensure landing one of these brutes is fishing from a boat with stout tackle.

One ounce sliding sinker rigs with 6/0 circle hooks on 50 pound fluorocarbon leaders tied to at least 50 pound Power Pro or other braid to minimize break offs is a good setup to use around bridge pilings. It pays to have a couple of lighter rigs on board for mangrove snapper and smaller slot size drum.

Black drum in the 30 to 60 pound class normally spawn in the 3 to 6 foot deep flats of the north Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon this month. Most Indian River drum caught in these deeper flats have been running in the 30 to 50 pound category.

Cut blue crab, select jumbo shrimp, fiddler crabs, sand fleas, or any live crustacean will catch drum and redfish. A large live shrimp on a jig head pulled slowly along the bottom works really well to locate them.

The mud flats along East Gator Creek (Click on pic below) generally hold small pods of black drum, often mixed with small "rat" redfish. During the late afternoon hours you can occasionally see them pushing wakes tight along the bank within easy casting range. Most of the drum caught in this area and around Catfish Creek are in the 16 to 24 inch category, with a few well over that size.

Although most bank fishermen use live shrimp on a sliding sinker rig, a freelined shrimp with a small split shot is deadly when you can sight cast them.

The snook bite along the Space Coast is usually quite productive in our area however this last cold front put the ones that survived the temperatures in a state of shock.

The key to success is finding areas with a mix of deep water, shallow water, and structure that blocks the wind and provides choke points that predatory fish can use to ambush bait fish or shrimp.

The Thousand Islands Conservation Area in Cocoa Beach.has many areas that satisfy these conditions and has tons of smaller sea trout, redfish and snook. Because of the shallower water in this area, shallow draft technical skiffs, kayaks, and canoes are the best way to access fish on the flats.

The fish have been congregating around ambush points near schools of baitfish in shallow waters and close to the mangrove roots. Freelined jumbo shrimp have been working best on these fish. A frisky live shrimp tipped on a jig head will also produce good results on black drum as well as snook, slot redfish, and larger sea trout if they are in the area.

The deeper waters along the mangrove drop offs will normally hold snook, smaller to slot size sea trout, and sheepshead that feed on the barnacles growing on the mangrove roots.

Skip casting dark colored Tsunami 3.5″ paddle tail baits, D.O.A. jerkbaits, 3 1/2" paddle tail baits on 1/8th oz. jig heads, or 5" jerk shads on 1/8th oz. weedless hooks is a good way to get hookups when the fish are tight under the mangroves.

Peeled shrimp and sand fleas will usually get you a hookup on the sheepshead if they're in the area.

When the baitfish start coming into the lagoon system later in the month, expect the topwater bite to start picking up for big female speckled sea trout.

Tossing topwater baits like the Chug Bug, Badonk-A-Donk, Skitter Walk, Zara Spook, etc. during the morning hours, and plastic swim baits like Creme's Spoiler Shad, D.O.A. Cal Shad Tails, and saltwater Shad Assassin baits during the late morning hours into the afternoon has been the proven tactic for catching them.

As far as lure size is concerned; 3″ and 5″ baits work well but the larger fish go for larger baits.

Lone gator sea trout can usually be found following the bait pods and are frequently found swimming among the schools of redfish and black drum that cruise the ledges adjacent to the shallower flats.

Live croakers, pinfish, fingerling mullet, and jumbo shrimp are all great baits for large gator trout, especially when fished under a noisy Cajun Thunder type float.

Sheepshead are still plentiful around the bridge pilings, sea walls, coquina outcroppings, and rocky jetties in our area and you don't need fancy tackle to catch them.

Most anglers fish for them with single hook dropper loop bottom rigs made of 20 pound fluorocarbon and a 1 or 2 oz bank sinker, with a loop knot above the weight and a sharp No. 1 or No. 2 hook. Fishing the rig just off the bottom around structure keeps tension on the line and allows you to feel even the slightest bite.

Playalinda and Area Beaches:

Surf fishing along East Central Florida beaches during March is usually steady with plenty of "puppy" black drum, whiting, pompano and palometa showing up in the troughs. The catch is accompanied with baby sharks and bluefish which adds some variety to the bag.

After the cold fronts rolled through a couple of weeks ago and the water in the surf warmed up a bit, local surf anglers have been catching lots of small whiting, black drum, and baby pompano along with a few keeper black drum and pompano in the mix.

From Playalinda Beach down to Indian Harbour Beach the pompano seem to be running in the first and second troughs.

The cuts in the sandbars near the Minutemen Causeway and Satellite Beach have been producing some decent fish. You do not need to cast to the horizon in these areas. The best catches have been coming from the first troughs, about 10 to 20 yards out to the second trough; about 40 to 60 yards out.

Casting into the white water wash where the waves are breaking over the sandbars is where the sand fleas are being dislodged; and where the pompano and whiting are feeding.

Double drop pompano rigs with orange,pink, or chartreuse float beads with live sand fleas or Fishbites and a small piece of peeled frozen shrimp have been producing on most fishable days. A few anglers reported that clam has been working well on occasion, regardless it pays to bring along a variety of bait.

Farther out from the beach, anglers are catching some mackerel, bluefish, spinner sharks, and black nose.

Anglers targeting sharks this month will find a lot of blacktips in the surf.

Fresh chunked baits, live baits, and fresh shrimp are all good baits for smaller blacktips.

For larger sharks most anglers have been using large chunks of bonito or other fish carcass and stingray wings for bait. Wire leaders, large circle hooks, and stout tackle are the norm for sharks.

When fishing for sharks from the beach; remember to complete the free FWC land based shark course and carry the permit on your person.

To get the permit, you need to take an educational course at MyFWC.com/SharkCourse which consists of a quiz and some educational videos. After you create an account and pass the test, (which you can re-take if you fail) your certificate will have an ID code unique to you.

Port Canaveral Nearshore and Offshore:

March Madness is here again at Port Canaveral, so lets bring on the cobia!

Although cobia are caught all year round in our area, March is when the cobia migration peaks along our beaches.

When water temperatures get into the 70 degree mark, the manta rays will start to appear in greater numbers nearshore, often shadowed by cobia.

This is when many anglers sight fish free swimming cobia close to shore. All you need is relatively clean water, sunny skies, and a high platform to spot them.

Cobia can be found following manta rays, turtles, sharks, and around almost any floating debris, free swimming in open water, or on any type of structure offshore. Both cobia and tripletail like to hang around the marker buoys, weed lines, and other floating structure out of Port Canaveral.

Cobia are usually not very picky eaters, but they can be finicky. You can catch them on bucktail jigs, plastic baits, live bunker, pinfish, mullet, live eels, live jumbo shrimp, whole squid, and combinations of these baits. Some days they will eat anything, and some days they develop lockjaw will snub their noses at everything you throw.

A light tipped 7 foot medium action rod with enough backbone to stick the hook, a 40 pound Power Pro or other brand braid, and a 50 pound leader with an 8/0 circle hook, is all you need for cobia.

Offshore, bottom fishing boats out of Sunrise Marina at Port Canaveral this month are already pulling some nice cobia over the rail.

The bottom bite in March out of Port Canaveral is usually good to excellent for triggerfish, mangrove snapper, lane snapper, vermillion, and mutton snapper. Bottom droppers generally fish sliding sinker or chicken rigs with squid, sardines, pilchards, and live or chunked reef fish as baits of choice.

The Kingfish bite out of Port Canaveral is usually good to excellent throughout the year. Some days they are on the reefs in good numbers, and other days they are ghosts.

On good days you can expect Pelican, 8A, and other area reefs to produce decent kingfish and occasionally a cobia or two on slow trolled live baits. The 70 to 90 foot reefs will also have some mahi on them as the month progresses.

Although Pelican and 8A often hold some big king mackerel, most of the kings this time of the year are running around 10 pounds.

Nearshore trolling along our beaches this month will be good for bluefish and Spanish mackerel, especially as the waters continue to warm up. Small silver spoons, diving plugs, jigs, and live baits all work well.

Offshore anglers venturing to the gulfstream can expect to hook into mahi, wahoo, blackfin tunas, sailfish, king mackerel, and yellowfin tuna.

High speed trolling will usually pick up some nice wahoo on large dark colored lures. Smaller baits will usually produce good numbers of dolphin and blackfin tuna.

SHRIMPING:

Shrimping along the sea walls, channels, and bridges in East Central Florida has been ramping up for the past few weeks and is expected to get better this month. .

The railroad bridge, A. Max Brewer Bridge fishing piers, and Haulover Canal has been producing some extra large to jumbo shrimp on a regular basis.

Dip netters and cast netters along the sea walls at the fishing pier in Titusville have been picking up some nice size white shrimp up to the jumbo category with many reporting "full pulls" or limit buckets.

The shrimp netted at the fishing piers, Haulover Canal, and the Railroad bridge are land locked and are much larger than those in the Mosquito Lagoon Oak Hill and Edgewater areas. The water salinity is 32ppm and the shrimp think they are in the ocean. Since they are not constantly migrating, they grow to be quite large

The guy in the video below picked up 3 to 4 dozen shrimp while I was talking to him the other night. Most were in the xlarge to jumbo category

All you need to harvest them is a dip or cast net and insomnia.

Dip netters put out green or dull colored lights that keep the shrimp swimming up higher in the water column from the bottom; making them easier to spot and net. Bright lights cause the shrimp to swim around the bulbs.

Until next time,

Tight Lines and bent rods!

1575 Silk Oak Ave,
Titusville, FL
32796, USA

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SUPPORT COPY: Your February 2026🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2026-02-01T00:00:24-05:00

Mosquito Lagoon &

Indian River

Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 199 February 1, 2026



Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River: Water levels in the Mosquito Lagoon are pretty low and the water is crystal clear in most areas which makes for some grerat sight casting. The blast of arctic air that moved into Central Florida this past week had a definite affect on the bite in the shallow waters of the Mosquito Lagoon and northern section of the Indian River. The fish are chewing but they are hard to catch. The snook bite in particular from north of New Smyrna Beach, all the way down past Melbourne, Fl. was put in a state of suspended animation by the freezing temperatures, however, at the date of this post, the bite is already picking up. Snook, sea trout, and some redfish have moved into deeper waters where they will remain until the water temperatures began to warm up again. The fish holding in these deeper waters are somewhat concentrated and can be caught on lighter tackle with live baits and small scented soft plastic baits. The trick to success in these areas is to fish artificial baits very slowly. Although the water temps in the northern Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River were in the 57 to 59 degree range, todays water temperature is in the 64 to 65 degree range where it will hopefully remain until this report is posted. This warming trend should improve the bite for all of our Central Florida inshore species.. Redfish, sea trout, black drum and snook usually feed heavily after a cold front passes through the area and are often found cruising the deeper, mangrove covered shorelines. Skip casting a live shrimp, a dark colored Tsunami 3.5″ paddle tail bait, D.O.A. jerkbait, 3 1/2" paddle tail bait on a 1/8th oz. jig head, or topwater baits like the Badonk-A-Donk is a great way to get hookups when the fish are tight on the bank under the mangroves. Dark green or brown colors with a red or gold flake have been the best producing plastic baits. Many local anglers target gator size sea trout during the winter months and February is arguably one of the best months fo fish for them. In the Mosquito Lagoon during the late afternoon hours, gator size sea trout can often be found mingled in with the schools of black drum and redfish that are often meandering around the eastward facing ledges adjacent to the shallower flats. Live shrimp, fingerling mullet, and cut baits work best in these scenarios. In fact a frisky live shrimp tipped on a jig head will always produce good results on snook, slot redfish, and larger sea trout if they are in the area. During windy days, look for gator size sea trout on the lee side of the clinkers, in the sloughs, and sheltered troughs where they stage to ambush an easy meal. A pinfish, croaker, mullet, or jumbo shrimp fished under a noisy popping cork is hard to beat for catching large sea trout in these areas. During the warmer days in betweeen the cold fronts, large see trout will often stage close to their winter potholes where they seldom move more than a short distance to grab a meal. Stealthy accurate presentations with lighter tackle are necessary for these fish. This week we are looking at 25 degree night temperatures which will cause a lot of under slot sea trout to stack up in the deeper holes, residential canals, channels, and sloughs. Slowly presented live baits, small jigs, and plastic swimbaits all work well on these fish. February is when sheepshead mania peaks along the Space Coast. Large schools of sheepshead congregate on nearshore structure to spawn during the winter months which makes them easier to find. If you can locate some rocky, craggy, reef like structure around clean deep water this month, you will probably find some sheepshead. Bridge pilings, sea walls, rocky jetties, coquina outcroppings, and shallow water near shore wrecks and reefs are all likely areas that can hold sheepshead this month. Surf anglers targeting sheepshead should head to beaches with extensive reefs like those around Satellite Beach at Patrick Space Force Station. Bank fishermen can find them at Ponce Inlet, Jetty Park at Port Canaveral, Sebastian Inlet State Park, and around any bridge piling. The fishing piers at the A. Max Brewer Bridge, the docks behind the condos in Titusville, the pilings at the railroad bridge, and the bridge fenders at Haulover Canal are also productive areas to target sheepshead. A single hook dropper loop bottom rig made of 20 pound fluorocarbon and a 1 or 2 oz bank sinker, with a loop knot above the weight and a sharp No. 1 or No. 2 hook.is a good rig to use from a boat, pier, or sea wall. The "chicken like" rig keeps tension on the line which allows the angler to feel the slightest bite, and the rounded edges on the bank sinker minimizes snagging. Many sheepshead anglers just use a long shank #2 hook with a small split shot about a foot above the hook on three feet of fluorocarbon leader to catch these bait stealers. The preferred bait for sheepshead is a small or medium size sand flea or small fiddler crab. Larger baits are more easily picked off the hook by these notorious bait stealers whereas a small sand flea or fiddler is often taken in one bite; hook and all. Inshore, the black drum are still around in the Mosquito Lagoon in very good numbers. Last week one of the charter captains in our area reported a large school of 800 to 1,000 black drum on one flat. The fish were eager to bite on live and fresh dead shrimp but the next day, they developed lockjaw and refused almost everything that was being tossed to them. Black Drum in the 20 to 60 pound class can be found in the 3 to 6 foot deep flats in the north Indian River and the Mosquito Lagoon this month in preparation for the spawn. Most spawning fish in the Indian River flats are in the 30 to 50 pound class. In the Mosquito Lagoon, you can usually find black drum schools cruising around Cucumber Island and the flats along Bio Lab Road in the southern end.. Up north, the schools can be found around the deeper dropoffs and deep water areas between Tiger Shoal and George's Bar. The drum in this are in the 25 to 50 pound class, with most fish between 25 and 30 pounds. Large live shrimp, cut crab, sand fleas, or any live crustacean will catch these fish. The shallow flats in the northern part of the Indian River around Patillo Creek, the mud flats along Gator Creek Road, and the southern section of the Mosquito Lagoon usually hold small to medium size schools of black drum the year round. A lot of bank fishermen target these areas for black drum and redfish with live or fresh dead shrimp on sliding sinker rigs.

Offshore and Nearshore:

As long as the north winds allow anglers to venture offshore, The offshore fishing forecast for Port Canaveral this February should be great for anglers who are able to venture out to the gulfstream.

Offshore anglers pulling live baits can expect hookups with kingfish, mahi, bonita, wahoo, cobia, blackfin tuna, and sailfish when water temps get into the 66 degree range.

Some of the anglers making the run to the gulfstream have reported good catches of wahoo using large, dark colored high speed lures and swimming plugs. Black and blue, purple and black, and red and black are generally the most productive colors.

For blackfin tunas, smaller dark colored lures seem to be working better. For Mahi, pink and white or blue and white skirts in front of small to medium size ballyhoo seems to be the ticket.

Anglers running multiple lines at 5 to 10 knots are also catching wahoo in the general areas of 8A, Pelican, and the other 70 to 150 foot reefs where anglers routinely slow troll for King Mackerel..

Several captains have reported some decent sailfish action going on offshore, mainly in the southern portion of our region between Port Canaveral and Sebastian down towards Vero, in 200 to 300 feet of water with trolled ballyhoo, pillchards or goggle eye baits.

Inside the 200 foot mark, the bite for king mackerel and some scattered dolphin has been decent on the 70 to 90 foot reefs. Live baits on stinger rigs normally work best but live baits can be harder to find this time of the year. Usually frozen minnows are a god substitute but if the fish are really picky, try pulling spoons or planers with a sea witch skirt in front of a strip bait.

Although there are specific tactics commonly used to target kingfish and wahoo; small Islander lures with a ballyhoo will generally work on both species. If you're targeting Wahoo, just ramp up the trolling speed a bit.

Most kingfish caught this time of the year are in the 6 to 10 pound category.but Pelican and 8A often produce some smoker kings

Deep sea fishing enthusiasts outside the 200 foot mark have been making some really tood catches of amberjack throughout our region.

The bite for lane snapper, vermillion snapper, and triggerfish is also good inside the 200 foot mark along with some legal size black sea bass that have been showing up arouind the Daytona area. The snapper bite in general on most of the structure out of Port Canaveral is reported to be good by anglers using frozen squid, sardines, pilchards, chunked reef fish, and live baits on standard chicken and bottom rigs.

Closer to shore, bluefish have been making ther way into East Central Florida waters in good numbers providing exciting action along the surf and the inlets. The fish aren't picky eaters and will inhale a big silver spoon, plug, cut bait, or dead shrimp. Long shank hooks are recommended to minimze cut offs.

Vast schools of black drum in the 10 to 40 pound category will make their way along Space Coast beaches this February. They can often be seen from the beach as dark brown blobs from A1A beach accesses. Kayakers and paddleboarders can get into some great action when they find them by quickly deploying their gear. The fish aren't picky like they are in the backcountry and will chew just about any obnoxious presentation.

Surf Fishing:

Surf fishing for pompano these past weeks in East Central Florida has not met anglers expectations. The big question most anglers have been asking is "Where are the pompano?".

Although we have had several solid cold spells pass through our area, for the most part the pompano bite has been hit or miss along the Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach surfs.

The Northeast winds we normally get this month should help create some fresh troughs to fish as well as a light chop on the water which is key to good surf fishing. So far, except for a few days, the action along our beaches has been bull whiting, puppy drum, bluefish, permit, sheepshead, and jacks.

Anglers have been catching these species on live sand fleas, small pieces of shrimp, and clam strips with or without fishbites; rigged on pompano rigs with pink, white, or orange floats. Some days have required a sputnik weight, and with this past week’s wind direction, extra weight will definitely be needed to hold bottom.

The pompano that are being caugtht are on dropper loop surf rigs with sand fleas, shrimp, and pieces of clam strips for bait.

Some surf anglers have been successfully using banana shaped "Goofy" jigs popped along the bottom at low tide to where the waves break over the sandbars. Pompano will normally feed in churned up water. Sharp jerks of the rod tip will leave a puff of sand that attracts the pompano to the bait. .

The bluefish action in the surf has picked up considerably in our area.. The fish are abundant in the surf and especially around the inlets, and are not very picky eaters. Cut baits, dead shrimp, or silver spoons and Gotcha plugs all work well on bluefish which are averaging 15 inches in the surf.

Fishing Port Canaveral:

Port Canaveral isn't exactyly a pretty place to go fishing with the huge cruise ships, delapidated docks, and military presence but the fish don't seem to care. Right now light tackle anglers willing to ignore the Port's industrial backdrop can catch pompano, weakfish, whiting, sea trout, mackerel, snook, and even bluefish as they move in and out of the Port.

As water temperatures in the surf drop into the 50s, schools of fish stake out in some of the Port's deeper basins, some of which are over 40 feet.

The restrictions for boaters inside Port Canaveral require the public to remain 25 feet from all Canaveral Port Authority (CPA) piers, wharfs and docks, 100 feet from moored vessels ,and 200 feet from the Navy Pier. When the cruise ships are docked in the west basin, boaters are not allowed to enter the area, however, the middle turning basin remains open to fishermen.

Locate the schools with sonar and drop a small bucktail, spoon, or live shrimp to the bottom for some action.

Schools of weakfish and silver trout, which usually run about a pound or two, are usually hovering just off the bottom in the deeper basins and will hit almost any small lure presented to them. Small yellow jigs work great on ultralight tackle with flourocarbon leaders and get a plenty of bites.

Bluefish and Spanish mackerel roam closer to the surface and will hit small silver spoons or small diving plug. As the temperatures in the surf zones warm between the cold fronts, the pompano move in and out of the port and can be caught on live shrimp, sand fleas, and "goofy jigs".

Two major launch sites serve boaters at Canaveral, both on the south side of the port, at the Freddie Patrick Park immediately west of Jetty Park, and at the Rodney Ketcham Boat Ramp at Port’s End Park.

Until next time,
Tight Lines and bent rods!

1575 Silk Oak Ave,
Titusville, FL
32796, USA

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SUPPORT COPY: Your January 2026🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2026-01-01T00:00:14-05:00

Mosquito Lagoon &

Indian River

Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 198 Januray 1, 2026



Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River: We Hope You All Have A Happy New Year! Florida's recreational season for spotted seatrout reopens today for the Central East region and from the reports I have been getting, we should have some decent wintertime fishing this month for speckled sea trout, redfish, and black drum. Anglers in our area have also be targeting snook around the deeper shorelines and mangroves before the winter temperatures set in. The weather has been a little wierd lately. The wind and cold weather we get one day changes on a dime to warm, almost summertime weather but the fish don't seem to mind much. For the past few weeks, the snook bite has been good for anglers fishing tight under the mangroves during the early morning and late afternoon hours when the fish are most active. Skip casting dark colored 3 1/2" paddle tail baits on 1/8th oz. jig heads or 5" jerk shads on 1/8th oz. weedless hooks has been the best method for catching snook when they are tight to the bank. In the New Smyrna area, the snook have been lingering around the deeper shorelines and just about any deep watrer structure. With the fairly good shrimp run we have been enjoying, the fish have been targeting in on live shrimp and artificial shrimp patterns like the D.O.A. shrimp. However, spoons and live finger mullet have also been working well in that area. The redfish, black drum and sea trout in the Ponce area have been hanging in and around the bait pods in the shallows. In south Brevard, anglers targeting snook have been using mostly artificial baits along the mangroves. Both paddletails and artificial shrimp have been producing bites with most of the action coming from night fishing tight to the mangroves during periods of moving water. The bite in this area has been pretty slow but anglers willing to put in the time have been landing quality fish. For the past several weeks fly fishing in the Mosquito Lagoon has been really productive. Small streamer flys and shrimp patterns have been working best on the numberous small pods of 8 to 10 redfish that are tailing on the flats up and down the eastern side of the lagoon. If you're not a fly guy, anglers have also been getting good results on 3" straight tail baits like the Shad Assassin, 4" paddle tail baits, and D.O.A. Shrimp; especially in the clear with gold flake color. Small schools of redfish can be seen this month working the flats in the Banana and Indian Rivers feeding on baby clams, snails, and shrimp. The reds have developed a new attitude; they are starting to actively chase artificial lures again. The same fish that last month would barely chase anything that was moving are now chasing just about anything that they think looks edible. Charter captains are reporting that the best catches over the last few weeks occured on straight tailed 3 to 4-inch soft plastic “dart” style lures like the Rapala Crush City Salted Ned Roll and the Bass (saltwater) Assassin Lil’ P&V. The darker green or brown colors with a red or gold flake have been the best producers. Rig the dart style baits on a 1/8-ounce Ned style head in open water or when there is not a lot of grass or weeds around. When fishing the deeper edges of the residential canals or the shallower mangroves along the flats, fish them on a 1/16 to 1/8 ounce weighted weedless worm hook. The sea trout action has also been good on these baits. Redfish, snook, and some of the larger sea trout have been holding in the 18 to 30 inch depths. The smaller schoolie trout are mostly in deeper, 30 to 48 inch depths. The artificial bait bite should remain good until our next severe cold front which is occurring this evening as I compose this article. Then the bite shuts down and everybody reverts to soaking medium size live shrimp and cut baits along the mangroves. When the water temperatures this month really drop, you will find a lot of under slot sea trout stacking up in the deeper holes, channels, and sloughs throughout our lagoon system. When this happens, live baits fished very slowly work best, however suspending plugs, plastic Saltwater Assassin baits, small jigs, and even Johnson Sprite type spoons will catch fish when worked very slowly. A lot of anglers in our area like to go after gator size sea trout during the winter months. Although big "gator" size trout are not as plentiful as they had been in past years; there are still a lot of females in the 6 to 9 pound category caught in our area. A lively pinfish, croaker, mullet, or jumbo shrimp fished under a noisy popping cork is a hard bait to beat for catching large sea trout this month. Look for them in the lee side sloughs and troughs sheltered from the winds and around the potholes soaking up the sun and looking to ambush baitfish or shrimp for an easy meal. In between the cold fronts, sea trout will generally hold close to their winter holes on the flats and move only short distances to feed. Because winter time fish are usually less aggressive and will test or "mouth" artificial lures before they commit to a strike; live baits normally work best for winter trout. . The best times to fish during cold weather periods is during the afternoon and evening hours. During the winter months into early spring, black drum up to 12 pounds gather up into large schools in the Mosquito Lagoon, Banana, and Indian Rivers. Along Bio Lab Road in the southern part of the Mosquito Lagoon; anglers should be able to find single fish and medium to larger schools of black drum cruising the shallow flats. A lot of bank fishermen target this area for black drum and redfish with live or fresh dead shrimp on sliding sinker rigs. Most of the fish caught are just in the slot with a few well over size. The deeper flats in the northern section of the Indian River and the deeper waters in the Patillo Creek area are great places to target black drum this month. Anglers fishing live shrimp on sliding sinker rigs or plain jig heads usually catch some nice slot size drum in these areas. Live or dead shrimp, cut mullet, chunked lady fish, and fresh cut sections of blue crab all work well this time of the year on black drum and reds in these areas. The shallow mud flats along Gator Creek and East Gator Creek road also hold small pods of slot size black drum. On calm days you can occasionally see them tailing on the shallow mud flats along East Gator Creek Road. Live or dead shrimp, sand fleas, and fiddler crabs are good baits for black drum in this area. On Tuesday afternoon, just about all of the best fishing spots were taken by bank fishermen after black drum. The bite for for sheepshead and mangrove snapper has been ramping up on structure close to moving water in both the Mosquito Lagoon and the Indian River. Cold water temperatures make most gamefish sluggish, but for sheepshead and mangrove snapper, the conditions couldn't be more favorable. Right now you should be able to find sheepshead hanging around any rough encrusted structure in our lagoon system. Anglers dropping live shrimp or fiddler crabs around the bridge pilings, residential dock pilings, jetties, and rocky outcroppings have been hooking up with some nice mangrove snapper and good numbers of sheepshead. Small fiddler crabs, sand fleas, live shrimp, and just about any other crustacean you can get on a small hook will work on sheepshead. These guys are bait stealers which is why most successful anglers use either a long shank #2 hook with a small split shot and about three feet of fluorocarbon leaderor a dropper loop rig with a 1 or 2 oz. bank sinker and a sharp #2 or even smaller hook tied about 10 or 11 inches above the sinker to catch them. The dock pilings behind the condos in Titusville, both the fishing piers at the A. Max Brewer Bridge, the pilings at the railroad bridge, and the fenders at Haulover Canal are all good areas to target sheepshead this month. The docks and sea walls at Port Canaveral, and the rocks at Jetty Park are also good spots to target sheepshead and snapper this month.

Port Canaveral Nearshore and Offshore:

Mahi, Bonito, Sailfish, Blackfin Tuna, Wahoo, and Snapper are the best bets this January for anglers able to get offshore and drag a spread.

As surface water temperatures offshore drop into the 66 degree range, offshore anglers will find scattered blackfin tuna, wahoo, and dolphin around rips and color changes near the western edge of the Gulf Stream.

Large, dark colored lures are generally pulled to catch wahoo, while small dark colored lures work best for blackfin tunas. Dolphin are usually suckers for blue and white or pink and white skirts in front of small to medium size ballyhoo.

The current cold front is causing a lot of anglers to fish nearshore out of Port Canaveral but when the winds start cooperating offshore, bottom droppers on charter and deep sea party boats out of the port should be making good catches of amberjack, mangrove snapper, mutton snapper, lane snapper, black sea bass, triggerfish, groupers, and cobia over the reefs.

The snapper bite in particular peaks this month and anglers targeting them can find most snapper species in depths as shallow as 50 feet. The snapper bite on the 60 to 120 foot structure is reported to be good by anglers using frozen squid, sardines, pilchards, mullet, and live baits. Chicken rigs and bottom rigs are standard terminal tackle.

Nearshore, the bite for Kingfish along the 60 to 90 foot reefs should be consistent for anglers slow trolling live pilchards, mullet, pogies or dead sardines on stinger rigs. Along with Sea Witch and bait strip combinations trolled deep behind planers, a lot of king mackerel are caught on spoons and lipped diving plugs.

When the Manta rays begin showing up this month, a lot of cobia will be tagging along with them. On calm days with good visibility, nearshore anglers will be able to sight fish for Cobia using hair jigs, jig and eel combos, and a variety of live baits. Cobia will occasionally follow sea turtles and bull sharks over the shallower reefs.

When inclement weather makes offshore fishing tough, most anglers will move off the beach to fish for redfish, snook, Spanish mackerel, bluefish, and jacks. Slow trolling Rapala X-Rap lipped diving plugs and small spoons will catch most of these species just off the beach but a small live finger mullet or pilchard is hard to beat.

After the cold front we just had, near shore anglers should start seeing better numbers of larger tripletail, weakfish, and even a few more cobia along the marker buoys, weed lines, and near shore wrecks. .

This weeks colder temperatures should produce a hot bite in the shipping channel and deep water turning basins at Port Canaveral. Sheepshead, pompano, mangrove snapper, whiting, permit, blue runners, snook, and redfish should be hitting live shrimp on sliding sinker rigs or on light (1/8 to 1/4 ounce) jig heads around the drop offs and rocky areas at the port.. The sheepshead bite in particular has been pretty decent so far around rough structure.

When the water temperatures outside Port Canaveral get down into the middle 60 degree range, the action should only get better.

Playalinda and Area Beaches:

January is an outstanding month for surf fishermen targeting pompano along east Central Florida beaches.

The currrent cold front will soon produce consistent water temperatures in the mid 60s which will make the pompano active and push flounder, Spanish mackerel, and bluefish closer in to the beach.

As water temperatures stabilize into the high 60 to low 70 degree range, the larger pompano will begin moving closer to the beach within easy casting range of surf fishermen.

Right now we are beginning to see more schools of keeper fish moving closer to the sand. Live sand fleas are without debate the bait of choice for the majority of Pompano fishermen along Central Florida beaches, but they are sometimes hard to find. Fortunately we have had a bonanza year for sand fleas along our beaches and most bait shops have a supply available..

A lot of surf fishermen prefer using Fishbites, blanched sand fleas, salted clam strips, Fish Gum, or small bits of shrimp tipped with Fishbites when live sand fleas are not available. Terminal tackle is generally a 2 or 3 hook pompano dropper rig with or without a colored float.

Died in the wool pompano fishermen in our area like to custom tie their own pompano rigs using a variety of combinations.

Most surf fishermen targeting Spanish mackerel, bluefish, ladyfish, or jacks will be tossing small silver spoons, Gotcha lures, and Rapala X-Rap lipped diving plugs. Pink, orange, and yellow goofy jigs are also top producers for these fish. The pompano, jack and snook in particular love to strike goofy jigs when fished through the surf break and in the troughs along our Space Coast beaches.

Regardless of what species you target, knowing how to read the water from the beach is what makes the difference between a successful fishing trip and a skunked outing.

Way too often anglers, including myself, are in such a hurry to set up and wet a line that they fish areas that are not productive.

Successful surf fishermen are able to identify depth changes, runouts, troughs, and ebbing waters off of the rip currents that pose the best opportunities for holding fish.

Setting out several baits at varying distances from the sand is also basic to finding fish. Many anglers toss their baits out a country mile when the fish are schooling at their feet in the first trough.

Surf fishermen specifically targeting sharks this month should continue to make good catches of blacktips on whole and fresh chunked baits.

Expect occasional cutoffs from sharks, even when you're not targeting them. Sharks will often cut off a hooked fish from a pompano rig that is being retrieved too slowly. This happens a lot in the New Smyrna area where sharks are abundant.

Not much can be done about it except to reel faster or put out another rod specifically rigged for sharks. A wire or heavy mono leader with a large hook on a sliding sinker rig and a live or half of a whiting will get the job done!

Haulover Canal:

During the cold fronts in our area, the deep waters of Haulover Canal can become a holding area for black drum, redfish, sea trout, snook, tarpon, Mangrove Snapper, and a variety of other species.

On most days after Christmas, both sides of Haulover are lined with shore based fishermen after Mangrove snapper, redfish, or big black drum.

Last week the guys fishing along the coquina outcroppings and bridge fenders were catching some decent sized mangrove snapper on live shrimp and small cut baits.

Live and fresh dead shrimp or small chunks of fresh caught fish on a 2/0 or 3/0 circle hook, with a small split shot or two to get the bait close to the bottom, is a good way to fish for Mangrove snapper in this area without getting hung up on every cast. Most guys using heavier barrel sinkers find themselves spending a lot of time re-rigging.

Some of the largest bull redfish in our area are taken from the deep waters of the canal by anglers using live blue crabs, jumbo shrimp, live pinfish or mullet, and large cut baits, especially during the winter months.

Large, oversize baits account for more big redfish in the 40 inch and over category being caught than any other bait. They also minimize bycatches of hardhead cats and stingrays.

Serious fishermen specifically targeting bull reds use stout rods, 30 pound or heavier Power Pro or other brand braid, 30 pound or heavier fluorocarbon leaders, 6/0 circle hooks, and enough weight to hold bottom to stop the heavyweight reds from breaking off on the outcroppings.

There are deep holes at the mouth of the canal to the Mosquito Lagoon and on the Indian River side that consistently produces bull redfish and black drum. When the bite is on, you can often see several boats anchored in these holes soaking live crab or shrimp after the reds and black drum. .

The best bite for black drum and bull redfish is usually just before and a few days after the cold fronts roll through the area, and around the full moon. Shrimp and blue crab sections are by far the most productive baits.

Boaters can launch their vessels from the Bairs Cove boat ramp or the Beacon 52 boat ramp, and anchor off the ICW at either mouth of the canal.

Until next time,
Tight Lines and bent rods!

1575 Silk Oak Ave,
Titusville, FL
32796, USA

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SUPPORT COPY: Your December 2025🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2025-12-01T00:05:04-05:00

Mosquito Lagoon &

Indian River

Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 197 December 1, 2025



Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River: Water levels in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River are up and the bite for redfish, sea trout, black drum, and snook has been good throughout our region. In the Mosquito Lagoon, black drum have been showing up in better numbers along the deeper drop offs along the east channel and the main ICW channel as well as along the klinker islands that go down from Oak Hill to Haulover Canal. The two fishing piers under the A. Max Brewer bridge, and the railroad bridge in Titusville are also good places to target both slot size and oversize drum. A lot of slot size black drum in the Titusville, Fl. area are caught along the mangrove covered shorelines, the mud flats around Gator and east Gator Creek and the deeper waters around the bridge pilings. Live shrimp, dead shrimp, cut blue crab, fiddler crabs, and even sand fleas can be used in these areas to catch black drum up to 30 pounds or more. The bite for redfish and sea trout in the lagoon system is good, especially on the east side of the lagoon around the grassy areas. It seems like the water clarity in the grassy areas is cleaner and less turbid than in the non grassy areas. Successful anglers have been sight casting for them using live shrimp as the bait of choice. Since the sea grass has been rebounding in the lagoon system, so has the numbers of quality sea trout and redfish. On calm winter days, look for big sea trout staging around the potholes soaking up the sun and looking to ambush baitfish or shrimp for an easy meal. In between the cold fronts, sea trout will generally hold close to their winter holes on the flats and move only short distances to feed. Because the fish are usually less aggressive and want to test or "mouth" artificial lures before they commit to a strike, live baits work best for winter trout. Drifting a live pigfish or pinfish under a popping cork around the potholes is a good way to get hooked up with a gator size sea trout or redfish. Slow twitching a weedless fluke through the grass will also get hookups. Topwater walk the dog style plugs and popping plugs also work well first thing in the morning; particularly on larger sea trout. Zara Spooks, Rapala Skitterwalks, Chug Bugs, Super Spooks, Bass Pro Shop's XPS Slim Dog, and Bad-A-Donks are good top water baits for lthe arger trout in our area, especially when you smear them up with some Pro-Cure Inshore Formula Gel. Work the baits very slowly during the colder months. Farther south in the Sebastian and Wabasso area, lots of trout are being caught on soft plastics like the "Little John" straight tail in the watermelon red flake, mangrove green and clear with gold and silver flake or clear with black flake colors. The majority of fish are being caught along the drop offs and along the clam lease areas where some pompano are also being caught on these baits. The bite for bull redfish in our lagoon systems remains consistent and should stay that way throughout the balance of the year. Large bull redfish can usually be found stacked up in deep holes, around the bridges, in the deeper water channels, or around any deep water structure . Baits of choice for bull redfish are large blue crabs, live pinfish, and large fist size chunks of mullet or ladyfish. Standard sliding sinker rigs with enough weight to hold bottom are generally used to catch them. You generally don't have to start fishing at the crack of dawn to snag a quality redfish during December. The redfish in particular really dont start feeding until late in the mornings when the water warms up a bit. By late December, the sheepshead will start stacking up around the inlets, jetties, nearshore reefs, and in the lagoon system; the bridge pilings, docks, and sea walls. Rig up with some lignt tackle and pick up a bucket of sand fleas for some great eating. A dropper loop rig with a 1 or 2 oz. bank sinker and a sharp #2 or even smaller hook tied about 10 or 11 inches above the sinker with a fresh sand flea or small piece of shrimp is all you need to start catching sheepshead. The current bag limit is 8 fish per day measuring at least 12 inches in length. When cleaning these tasty fish, don't forget to cut out and utilize the throat (collar) which has the texture of lump crabmeat. The snook bite in our area remains good to excellent. All the inlets are holding good numbers of snook ritght now as well as the backwaters in the lagoon system. During the winter months, juvenile and larger size Snook can often be found holding tight to the mangroves along the shoreline and the banks of shallow mud bottom creeks. Although they will sometimes swim out to strike a live shrimp, finger mullet, or a well placed lure; skipping a bait under overhanging vegetation will get more bites. The largest Snook, sea trout, and redfish hold around mangrove roots, older docks, and areas where there is little to no human activity. Abandoned docks, bulkheads, rarely used canals, and even moored, abandoned, or partially sunken boats will often hold baitfish that the larger fish target. The Snook season in the Indian River Lagoon closes December 15th–Jan. 31 and June 1–Aug. 31.

Port Canaveral Nearshore and Offshore:

Winter on the Space Coast means it's time to break out the bottom fishing gear. This month the 60 to 90 foot reefs from Sebastian to Ponce Inlet come alive with lane snapper, mutton snapper, mangroves, triggerfish, and cobia..

Medium action spinning gear with 20 to 30 pound Power Pro or other braided line is just about all you need to catch an assortment of reef fish.

Sliding sinker rigs with short 25 to 40 pound leaders work best for leader shy snapper Chicken rigs with small circle hooks fished a few cranks off the bottom work best for triggerfish that like to hover just off the bottom.

Currently, the lane snapper bite in the Ponce Inlet area has been really good around the 80 to 90 foot mark, along with a lot of triggerfish that are mixed in with them. Baits of choice include squid and finger mullet, if you can get them, fished on bottom rigs.

The lane snapper bite on the Volusia county reef in 60 to 80 feet of water is reported good by anglers using live shrimp and squid on chicken rigs. The reefs with culverts or rock piles have been holding better numbers of lane snapper. The fish in this area have been averaging around 3 pounds and running around 14 to 15 inches or more in length.

December is also when ofshore anglers out of Port Canaveral start rigging ballyhoo to target migrating Wahoo, Mahi, blackfin tuna, kingfish, and sailfish along the weed lines and temperature breaks.

This time of the year, Kingfish and Mahi can be found offshore around the weed lines, temperature breaks, and color changes in depths up to 500 feet. Both blackfin tuna and wahoo are commonly caught by anglers trolling skirted ballyhoo in the 180 to 240 foot depths.

As the weather continues to cool down, the fishing for Wahoo and Sailfish which both prefer cooler water temperatures should noticebly improve.

A lot of really big kingfish are being caught offshore in the vicinity of Chris Bensen Reef and the area known as Sea World. Along with the king mackerel in this area are some good sized sharks that you might have to fight off to keep your catch.

Nearer to shore, if you can find some pogies, pilchards, or greenies just out from the beach you can find some nice redfish and bluefish around the pods.

All of our inlets are holding good numbers of snook right now. Anglers are catching them primarily on croakers and live shrimp.

When the cold fronts swing into our area, the winter run of flounder will start showing up near shore just outside of the breakers, inside of Port Canaveral, and around the jetties at the west end of Jetty Park.

As the flounder run increases, the sea walls at Ports End Park, the pier at the park, and most other accessible areas will be crowed with anglers fishing for these tasty fish.

Most anglers target flounder with a live finger mullet, mud minnow, or live shrimp on a short sliding sinker rig.

Small hair jigs tipped with a small piece of shrimp, or a bare jig head tipped with a live mud minnow or finger mullet bounced off the bottom, is a great way to cover ground and locate concentrations of flounder.

Most winter flounder caught in our area are under 5 pounds, but doormats of up to 8 pounds are occasionally landed.

Flounder season in our area is open from December 1st to October 14th each year, with a closed season from October 15th to November 30th. The minimum size limit is 14 inches total length with a daily bag limit of five fish per person.

Playalinda and Area Beaches:

This summer we had a bumper crop of sandfleas along our coast which should hopefully produce a memorable pompano run this winter.

In the surf along our beaches right now there are plenty of pompano and whiting along with a good mixed bag of bluefish, jack Crevalle, and ladyfish that are chasing the remaining finger mullet coming down the beach.

During the November run, surf fishermen were catching two and even three pompano at a time that were 1 or 2 inches short of the minimimun size. Hopefully these fish will return during the holiday season a bit larger.

These late running fish generally run in the 2 to 4 pound category and move in and out of the estuaries into the surf. These movements are based entirely on water temperatures.

This weekend's cold front has dropped the water temperature in the surf and we are beginning to experience almost ideal water conditions for pompano. When the temperature is in the preferred range, between 65 and 75 degrees F., the fish will be moving into our area in greater numbers.

The by catch of pompano fishing usually results in good catches of whiting, black drum, Spanish mackerel, and even permit.

In general, winter pompano prefer deep water and will move around until they locate a food source at the right water temperature where they congregate in tight schools.

A lot of novice surf fishermen get skunked and discouraged because they set their sand spikes where there aren't any actively feeding fish. Learn to read the beach before setting up your rods.

Watch how the waves are breaking and look for rip currents, wash outs, and sloughs that form just past the shore breaks. Pay attention to the sand in the surf for areas where small shells are piling up and where sections of the beach have small bubbles popping up as the water recedes. These are areas where sand fleas, small clams, and crabs are being pulled out into the deeper troughs where the fish are holding.

Pompano, bull whiting, black drum, and redfish often stage just outside of the rips to snatch up crustaceans as they are being pulled out into the troughs.

In addition to Playalinda Beach, some hotspots for pompano include Canaveral Bight, which is only accessable by boat; the rocky reefs around Satellite Beach and Cocoa Beach, and the beaches within two miles north and south of Sebastian Inlet.

Baits of choice in our area includes live sand fleas, fresh and frozen shrimp, and fishbites rigged on a bare or colored float pompano rig with a 3 to 6 oz. pyramid sinker to hold bottom.

A lot of anglers who fish Playalinda Beach for pompano use live sand fleas or sand fleas tipped with fishbites, and small pieces of shrimp on double drop pompano rigs. With the price of fresh pompano fillets topping $14.00 per pound, a lot of couch potatoes have been picking up surf rigs on black Friday and trying out surf fishing.

Haulover Canal:

Prior to the latest cold front this past weekend, the redfish and black drum bite in Haulover Canal had been picking up dramatically.

Several nice schools of black drum have been meandering up and down the canal for the past few weeks as well as some nice size snook along the shorelines.

The black drum have been eating shrimp, sand fleas, and cut blue crab fished on or just off the bottom.

For the past week or so, early mornings seems to be the best time to fish for drum in the canal. The fish in the canal have been averaging around 12 to 14 pounds, with a few well over that weight in the mix.

Redfish in the canal are being caught on shrimp, live croakers, and cut blue crab baits. The fish have been running anywhere from slot size all the way up to 46 inches in length.

Shrimping along the banks of Haulover Canal used to be popular with local residents, but fewer people seem to be utilizing this resource lately.

The shrimp in the canal run in good numbers during the winter months and are considerably larger than those netted in the Oak Hill area and farther north, but the shrimpers anchored along the banks have all but disappeared.

The northwest side of the railroad bridge and both fishing piers at the A. Max Brewer bridge seem to be the most popular spots for sport shrimpers using dip nets. A good number of shrimpers throwing cast nets from the small bridge at the entrance to the Pier 220 Seafood and Grill restaurant.have been making decent pulls

As the weather cools down this month, the shrimping in these areas should continue to improve.

Until next time,
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SUPPORT COPY: Your November 2025🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2025-11-01T01:00:07-04:00

Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 196 November 1, 2025

Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River

Since trick or treat is now past us, you might consider casting a topwater bait around the mullet pods that are still running along the shorelines of the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River.

The hurricane in the Caribbean has dropped temperatures making inshore and freshwater fishing consistently better throughout our region. In the lagoon system right now, the water levels are still high and most species are preferring cut or live baits.

In the Mosquito Lagoon, the redfish bite is still going strong with cut baits doing the magic trick.

The early morning topwater bite for redfish and snook has been picking up in the Mosquito Lagoon with anglers using small topwater plugs like the Zara Spook Jr., Chug Bug, Skitter Walk, etc. The best bite is first thing in the morning until about 8:00 am, then most anglers switch over to live or cut baits. If you can find clean patches of water with baitfish in them, that is where you will find most of the fish. The bite has definitely been slowing as the sun gets higher which is why most anglers are wrapping up by late morning.

Fish your baits tight to the mangroves along the shorelines, along the windward side of the islands, or anywhere there is a point where water flows around.

Some of the captains fishing dirty water in the lagoon have been trimming the tails off live mullet to get more action from the baits and more bites.

Up towards the Edgewater and Ponce areas, the mangrove snapper bite has been good around the rocks and docks. Anglers fishing these areas have also reported catching some nice snook along the the snapper using live shrimp along the same structure.

Live baits are still working good for redfish and a few tarpon around the bridges in the New Smyrna area and along the ICW all the way down to Oak Hill.

In the northern Indian River anglers fishing live and cut baits have been catching nice redfish in the flats across from the Scottsmore boat launch. Sections of live blue crab and large chunks of ladyfish are baits of choice for the larger bull reds in this area.

In the Gator Creek area of the Indian River at Titusville, the bite for black drum and redfish has been going gangbusters, especially when the culverts are open during heavy rains. The fish congregate in these areas and will bite on anything resembling a shrimp or small baitfish. Creme paddletail baits, tiny lipped plugs, cut baits, and live shrimp are all baits of choice with live shrimp being the number one choice.

The shallow mudflats along East Gator Creek road consistently hold slot size and larger black drum. During the early morning and late afternoons you can occasionally see them tailing in the shallows around the mangrove roots. Fishing a small live shrimp, a live fiddler crab, or sand flea with little to no weight can often get a hookup.

The new improvements that are being done along the causeway east of Parrish Park have forced shore based fishermen that usually fish that area for black drum, sea trout and redfish to relocate to the unimproved roads along Gator Creek, East Gator Creek and Catfish Creek Loop.

The black drum bite in these areas is best during the morning and close to dusk. Baits of choice in these areas are live shrimp, fresh dead shrimp, and fingerling mullet.

When the erosion project is completed along the A. Max Brewer causeway, we should expect to see some decent fishing along the south end where they have positioned the concrete structures. Small schools of redfish have already discovered this area.

Peacocks Pocket Road has also been producing good size sea trout, snook, black drum, and redfish along the "ditches". The problem is landing a fish when hooked. The banks are lined with brush and vegetation which makes things difficult to say the least.

Motorized vehicles are not yet permitted on the road so hiking or riding a bike is the only way to fish this area.

In southern Brevard this past week, anglers targeting sheltered areas around the spoil islands that are holding plenty of baitfish, have been making good catches of snook, trout, redfish, tarpon, jacks, and ladyfish. Smaller 3 to 4 inch paddle tail baits and topwater plugs have been the top producers, especially during the early morning hours.

Farther south of us in the Sebastian and Wabasso areas; good numbers of jacks have been blowing up baitfish around Pelican Island.
Anglers in that area have also been catching good numbers of snook along the shorelines using white Gulp Shrimp. The white color has been the most effective in the dirtier waters created by the windy conditions we have been having in that area.

Surf and Inlet Fishing

The fall mullet run along the Space Coast is spotty to non existent right now but if you can find them, there will be a mixed bag of predatory fish on them.

For the past weeks the surf has been pretty unfishable in most areas. There is still some dirty water and scattered weed patches, but if you relocate 20 yards or so to the left or right to get past them, you can still fish the surf.

The black drum are still hanging around and once this water clears up a bit, good numbers of whiting and pompano should start showing back up.

November is considered a peak month for catching Pompano along our beaches. As cooler weather starts to move into our area in the next few weeks, the annual southern migration of pompano will be moving south out of the Jacksonville and St. Augustine area towards our beaches.

Right now, there are reports of pompano moving into the Jacksonville area, so it’s only a matter of time before they make their way down to Brevard County beaches.

When the cold fronts hit our area and the water temperatures drop down to 78 degrees, the resident pompano that stay in our lagoon system will begin to make their way out to the beach where they school up with the southern migrating fish coming down from the Carolinas. Currently, water temperatures in the surf are still cooling down but as more surf fishermen are able to fish the beach, we should begin to see nice catches of pompano and bull whiting in our area.

Standard 2 or 3 hook pompano rigs with white, pink, or chartreuse floats are the go-to setup for pompano and whiting in our area.

Baits of choice include sand fleas, a small piece of shrimp, clams, crab or clam flavored fish bites, and fish gum.

Although Sputnik weights have been necessary lately, this week we should be able to switch back to pyramid leads.

The largest whiting and pompano are usually found well past the first sandbar. However, it is a good idea to run several rods spaced out along the beach at different distances until you find the areas where the fish are feeding for that day.

The first part of an incoming tide is believed to be the best time to fish the surf for pompano and whiting.

Most pompano caught from our beaches during the early fall are in the 1 to 2 pound category, but this month, fish up to 4 pounds or more are often the norm.

Port Canaveral Offshore and Nearshore

When the windows open, you can expect come great fishing offshore this month for Dolphin, scamp grouper, wahoo, sailfish and swordfish to name just a few.

October and November is when the Wahoo and sailfish bite peaks out of Port Canaveral. Both species prefer cooler water temperatures and are normally caught in good numbers this month.

So far, we haven't heard much about the sailfish bite however, we should start to see some fish showing up this week along the 140 to 180 foot range out of Sebastian and about the 150 to 220 foot range out of Canaveral. Out of Ponce Inlet you will normally find them in the 200 foot plus depths. It seems the farther north you go, the deeper you will find the fish.

The bite for wahoo is still fairly decent for offshore anglers pulling fast moving baits over the cones. The Cones are in the 230 to 250 foot depths on the Oculina Bank where anglers have been catching some nice wahoo . The 27 fathom ridge is also a good area to fish for Wahoo this month.

Wahoo prefer eating fast moving targets like Bonita, flying fish, blackfin tuna, and juvenile king mackerel. Many anglers prefer pulling large dark colored lures at 9 to 15 knots or better to catch them.

Purple and black Islander lures with 24 to 36 ounce inline trolling sinkers to get the lures down to the fish are commonly used by captains out of the Port for wahoo, sailfish, blackfin tuna, and kingfish.

Wahoo in our area run anywhere from 20 to well over 40 pounds, with most of the larger fish coming in during the winter months when the water temperatures are in the 73 to 76 degree range.

Offshore anglers who have been able to get past the windy conditions have been catching some dolphin in the early morning hours along the 220 to 240 foot mark trolling skirted ballyhoo around the scattered weeds that are still out there.

Pulling a skirted ballyhoo is by far the best way to find dolphin out of Port Canaveral. Target some of the scattered weed lines that are out there along with temperature breaks and color changes.

During the summer months, most dolphin caught were in the 4 to 7 pound category but this month, the fish are running anywhere from 9 to 15 pounds.

Also, anglers who have been targeting the shrimp boats between Ponce and Port Canaveral, especially as they set up for the night, have been hooking up with some nice blackfin tuna and an occasional cobia.

November is when offshore fishing heats up for the larger schools of kingfish that come into our area. Although the fall run is usually not as spectacular as the spring run, the fishing is still great. Most anglers working the reefs and wrecks out of Port Canaveral slow troll live bunker or mullet on stinger rigs for kingfish.

Kingfish caught out of Port Canaveral this month are normally in the 10 to 15 pound category, with a few larger ones always in the mix.

Along the beach, the redfish and snook bite has been pretty good for the past weeks.

Most anglers have been throwing finger mullet or live shrimp either on a sliding sinker rig or on a jighead in or around the jetties at Ponce, Canaveral, and Sebastian. All our inlets and jetties this month will be good for redfish, snook, tarpon, and a variety of sharks.

Anglers at Ponce Inlet and Port Canaveral have also been catching good numbers of mangrove snapper for the past week or so on live shrimp and cut baits.

Although cut baits work well on almost all species, the bait of choice for most anglers fishing the jetties is a lively live fingerling mullet or shrimp on a sliding sinker or knocker rig.

Despite the fact that there are not as many finger mullet along the beaches as there were a couple of weeks ago, there are still good numbers of predatory species in the area.

When the window opens for bottom fishing on the reefs and wrecks in the 90 to 130 foot depths out of Port Canaveral; the bite is good for grouper, mangrove and lane snapper, triggerfish, amberjack,porgies, and of course sharks. Anglers generally use live or cut baits, speed jigs, and hair jigs on these fish.

Grunt plugs, sardines, and any freshly caught live bait reef fish are good baits for grouper, AJs, and snapper.

Freshwater

Bass fishing in east central Florida can be fantastic this time of year through the early winter, and one of the places you might want to check out is East Lake Tohopekaliga.

Lake Tohopekaliga and East Lake Toho near Kissimmee, Fl are both quality bass fishing lakes in our area that many anglers overlook in preference to fishing for saltwater species.

East Lake Toho is a classic "soup bowl" shaped lake loaded with vegetation and fish. You have reeds, bulrushes, and lily pads in the shallows and a plethora of submerged cover offshore from the reeds. All good areas for big bass.

Right now with the weather cooling down, anglers are catching good numbers of bass and specks using live shiners and a variety of artificial baits.

Bitter's speedworms rigged on a 3/16 oz weight on a 3/0 EWG are used by many anglers as a search bait. The rig can be retrieved at various speeds and fished in open water to the thickest vegetation without hanging up.

Senko style flipping worms rigged on a 3/8th oz. weight tossed into the pockets in the reeds work well on larger bass that hole up in these spots to conserve energy.

Popping frogs and prop baits also work well during low light periods and the early morning hours.

You can launch your boat on the south side of the lake or from the Chisholm Park Public Boat Ramp on the east side of the lake.

East Lake Toho has a great reputation for Speck fishing as well as well as for good numbers of large bass.

Haulover Canal

Redfish migrate through Haulover Canal in good numbers every fall to spawn in the northern Indian River during September and October, however, depending on the weather and water temperatures, they can often be caught in good numbers during November and even December.

Shore fishermen commonly use a whole live blue crab, a large pinfish, fingerling mullet, or large cut baits to catch redfish in the 30 pound plus category.

Enough weight to keep the bait on or near the bottom with a heavy fluorocarbon leader and a 5/0 or 6/0 VMC circle hook is considered adequate terminal tackle.

Large snook are also often caught along the shorelines and the bridge fenders in the canal this month.

live baits, soft paddletail baits, and lipped diving plugs are all effective for snook, especially during low light and night time conditions.

Experienced anglers who fish Haulover Canal on a regular basis will tell you that it's a good idea to use Power Pro or some other braided line in lieu of monofilament. Braided lines are stronger and more resistant to cutoffs from the Coquina rocks that line the banks of the canal. The rocks play havoc on monofilament lines, especially when you have a really big fish on.

Until next time,

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SUPPORT COPY: Your October 2024🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2025-10-01T00:05:43-04:00

Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 183 October 1, 2024

Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River

October is one of my favorite months to get out on the water along the Space Coast.

The water levels in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River are up, the weather is beginning to cool down, baitfish are everywhere, and the action on most days is steady.

This month, anglers fishing different types of live baits like croaker, pogies, mullet, shrimp, and pilchards can catch a variety of nearshore and back country species like speckled trout, snook, redfish, black drum, tarpon, bull shark, whiting, sheepshead, tripletail, flounder, ladyfish, bluefish, mangrove snapper, and big jacks.

Anglers fishing the shorelines, shallow flats, and spoil islands in the northern Indian River and throughout the Mosquito Lagoon have been making nice catches of redfish, sea trout, and snook on a variety of live and artificial baits.

The snook bite this past week has been exceptional.

Good numbers of snook are coming from the Indian River and Mosquito lagoon flats and mangrove shorelines. Live fingerling mullet, croakers, and pilchards are baits of choice to catch them, but many anglers use suspending plugs and 5" straight tail saltwater assassin jerk baits. Some productive colors to choose are the root beer red flake in dirtier water or something like a green or white color with silver or gold flakes in clean water.

The 4 or 5 inch straight tail Slammin Shad on a 1/8th oz. jig head also works well on snook and trout. Anglers wade fishing the shorelines for snook are reporting that an erratic zig zag retrieve has been working best.

A live fingerling mullet on a 2/0 or 3/0 circle hook fished tight against the mangrove trees continues to be one of the best ways to get a strike from a big snook or sea trout.

Our backcountry snook are running 22 to 35 inches with some really big bruisers being caught right up along the shorelines.

The speckled sea trout bite has been on fire in both the northern and southern part of our region.

In the southern part you can catch them side by side with the snook along the spoil islands and over hanging mangrove covered shorelines on live shrimp, pilchards, mullet and small croakers.

Lots of nice trout in the 16 to 20 inch category are being caught in the deeper portions of the flats and the spoil islands along the channel between Grant and Vero Beach.

On the flats in the northern section of the Mosquito Lagoon, anglers are catching trout in that same size range and even larger using live pigfish.

Rapala Skitterwalk topwater plugs and any topwater bait that resembles a finger mullet will work on speckled sea trout when fished correctly. Especially early in the mornings. When the top water action slows down, Saltwater Assassin 4 or 5 inch Sea Shads and straight tailed Shad baits will usually get bites.

Right now anglers are catching a ton of 15 to 16 inch trout on the flats in the northern section of the lagoon, mostly on live pigfish.

There are plenty of redfish being caught in the lagoon system right now, particularly around the inlets.

Along the ICW channel in the New Smyrna area, all the way down to Oak Hill, you can find redfish around the mangrove shorelines throughout the area.

In the northern and middle section of the Mosquito Lagoon, redfish have been busting on baitfish along the shorelines. Small schools of redfish can usually be found on the larger flats like Tiger Shoal and the Plantation Island flat.

Every year from late September through early October, bull redfish in the 40 inch plus category gather up to spawn in the deep water flats of the northern Indian River across from the Scotsmoor boat launch.

These fish can be caught on live baits, cut baits, or blue crabs. A variety of topwater plugs, gold spoons, and large plastic swim baits are also effective, especially when sight fishing.

The black drum bite in our area is usually pretty consistent this time of the year. Single fish and small pods can be found roaming along the banks and underneath overhanging vegetation in all the lagoon systems.

Most of our local bank fishermen toss out a live or fresh dead shrimp and wait for a black drum to come along and bite. Shrimp is the bait of choice for black drum, but live sand fleas or fiddler crabs will often get more bites.

A lot of anglers like to sight cast to tailing black drum on the flats with a live shrimp for bait, however, a small 1/16 oz. R&R tackle yellow or white tail jig spiked with some Pro-Cure Inshore formula will often out fish a live shrimp.

Peacock Pocket Road is supposed to be completed but it is still not open to vehicle traffic. Several anglers I spoke with who park at the barrier at Catfish Creek Loop and at the shallow water launch, walk the road to fish the ponds and waters along the banks.

The dense vegetation along the banks make landing a good size fish next to impossible but with the rise in water levels, some very large sea trout, redfish, and snook can now be found foraging in the shallow marsh areas that were previously inaccessible during the summer months.

The best way to fish the area is to sight cast to foraging fish from the bank. Another way is to drop a live mullet or shrimp at the entry points to the ponds. The fish move up and down the "ditch" next to the road from pond to pond. Early in the morning and later on near dusk you can watch the wakes and often hear single fish busting on baitfish along the bank.

Surf and Inlet Fishing

The fall mullet run along the Space Coast is still in full swing. Surf fishing for snook, bluefish, jacks, redfish, Spanish mackerel, sharks, and tarpon is the thing to do this month.

As the baitfish migration moves farther south in a few weeks and the water temperatures drop, fishing in the surf for whiting and pompano will start to improve.

During the fall, the baitfish migrate from north to south. When you locate heavy concentrations of mullet is the surf and the bite slows down to a trickle, move south to the next access point until you find the pods. This is a proven tactic for surf fishermen that will keep you in the action.

Many surf fishermen in our area like to "wade fish" the beaches during the mullet run. Along the Space Coast, most of the beaches are accessible to anyone and with the fall mullet run in full swing, wade fishing is a great way to catch a lot of fish.

For this type fishing you will need a reel that is basically waterproof.

A Penn Slammer or Penn Authority reel in the 4500 or 5500 size fixed on a 7 foot or 8 foot medium/heavy action rod with 15 to 30 pound Power Pro or other type braid, with a Saltwater Assassin Artemis Shad in the Silver Mullet, Green Hornet, or the new Pilchard color lure is all you need to catch fish.

Surf fishing along the Space Coast is always a mixed bag of species. Right now big snook are the target for most surf fishermen.

The stretch of beach from Patrick Space Force Base down to Sebastian Inlet is the best area for catching large snook in the surf. The Coquina worm rocks, troughs and run-outs harbor snook, Spanish mackerel, bluefish, sharks, and tarpon during their feeding frenzies. The best bait to fish is what is migrating through the area at the time.

A 6" Artemis Shad mimics pretty much anything that's in the surf right now, but surf anglers using live or chunked mullet and any artificial resembling a baitfish will usually get bit. On many days, glass minnows and horn bellies (Atlantic Bunker) are the best bait for snook.

This is one of the best months for surf fishing in East Central Florida and Playalinda Beach in the the Canaveral National Seashore is one of the better, least advertised "hot spots" for pompano during the winter months.

Surf fishermen targeting pompano, whiting, and juvenile black drum generally use long rods with 2 or 3 hook dropper rigs with sand fleas, fishbites, clams, or fresh peeled shrimp as bait.

A lot of anglers walk the beach casting into the nearshore first and second troughs with Goofy Jigs or live baits for whiting and juvenile black drum.

Most of the pompano in our area right now are in the 1 to 2 pound category, but later on in the month as the water cools down, larger fish will be the norm.

With all of the migrating baitfish running up and down our beaches, the shark bite has been on fire.

Almost any species of shark can be caught in the surf this month, regardless of whether you are targeting them or not, but from Cocoa Beach to Melbourne Beach, blacktip sharks are the most commonly caught species.

All sizes of tarpon are also being hooked from the beach around the bait pods from Playalinda Beach all the way down past Melbourne Beach. Live or cut mullet and large swim baits are baits of choice for hooking a big tarpon from the beach.

Port Canaveral Offshore and Nearshore

October is when the Wahoo and sailfish bite peaks out of Port Canaveral.

Wahoo and sailfish both prefer cooler water temperatures and fast moving baits.

Offshore anglers pulling high speed lures or fast moving baits like Bonita, blackfin tuna, small kingfish, and flying fish along the rips, temperature breaks, and ridges like the Oculina Bank and the 27 fathom ridge should have an extremely productive month.

Large dark colored lures pulled at 9 to 15 knots or more will usually get hookups from wahoo. Purple and black Islander lures are used by a lot of captains out of the port for wahoo, blackfin tuna, king mackerel, and sailfish. 24 to 36 ounce inline trolling sinkers help to keep the lures down to where the fish are.

The wahoo out of Port Canaveral can run anywhere from 20 to over 40 pounds, with most of the larger fish coming in during the winter months when the water temperatures are in the 73 to 76 degree range.

Offshore anglers out of Port Canaveral have been catching good numbers of mangrove snapper on the reefs and wrecks in 90 to 130 feet of water.

During the winter months, a mixed bag of triggerfish, black sea bass, snapper, AJs, Scamps, Red Grouper, and Gag grouper is available to bottom fishermen. Live and cut baits are normally fished on a knocker rig or a chicken rig, but deep jigging with vertical speed jigs also works well when the currents warrant.

The amberjack bite along the Space Coast is good all winter long. Right now the amberjack are on the reefs and wrecks in 180 to 250 feet of water north of the port. Grunt plugs, sardines, and any live bait reef fish are usually used for AJs, grouper, and snapper.

When the currents are light in the northern part of the central east region from Canaveral to Ponce many anglers prefer to use lighter weight finesse jigs or slow jigs to catch amberjack.

Our average amberjack is running 20 to 40 pounds, with some reef donkeys in the 50 to 80 pound range..

Our inshore and nearshore coastal waters are loaded with Tarpon right now that are migrating down with the mullet. You can see them busting on mullet and rolling along the beach within easy access of surf fishermen and anglers running close along the beach.

A lively mullet on about 6 feet of 40 to 80 pound leader with a 7/0 to 8/0 circle hook, with or without a float, is one of the best ways to hook into one of these fish.

Beach tarpon this month have been running anywhere from 50 to 150 pounds.

Tripletail in our area usually arrive about 3 to 4 weeks into the fall mullet run. Right now they are being spotted in better numbers.

A select jumbo size shrimp or a live or cut finger mullet rigged on a saltwater assassin 1/4 oz. jig head is a good way to get Tripletail to bite. When they get picky, use a 2/0 size circle hook with a split shot weight on a live shrimp.

The fish are normally spotted nearshore outside of the surf zone among floating debris, color changes, and the channel markers.

Most of the tripletail in our area run around 3 to 8 pounds, but fish up to 15 pounds are not uncommon.

The October king mackerel bite is always good in our region. Slow trolling a live mullet, pogie, sardine or bunker on a stinger rig around the bait pods is the most popular way to catch them. Target the bait pods, small ledges, and scattered bottom structure close to the beach for kingfish this time of the year.

A black and blue Sea Witch or a diving plug pulled on a down rigger or planer on the 60 to 90 foot reefs will also produce fish this month.

Most of the kingfish caught in our area run anywhere from 10 to 15 pounds, with some larger ones in the mix.

Haulover Canal

We write about the variety of species that can be taken in Haulover Canal just about every month, but during the October spawning migration; "bull redfish" is definitely the name of the game in the canal.

Unlike the redfish in other coastal areas that migrate offshore to spawn, the unique redfish population in our area spend their entire lives in the shallow lagoon estuary.

The redfish use the deep waters of Haulover Canal to travel from the Mosquito Lagoon into the deep water flats of the Indian River for their annual spawning ritual.

The five mile wide section of the Indian River between Mims and Scottsmoor, just north of Titusville, is where the redfish gather into huge spawning schools during September and October.

Shore fishermen using a sectioned or whole live blue crab, a large pinfish or mullet, or a large chunk bait have an excellent chance of landing a trophy redfish in the 40 pound plus category as they travel through the canal this month.

Fish the baits on or near the bottom with an appropriate weight and use a heavy fluorocarbon leader with a 5/0 or 6/0 VMC circle hook as terminal tackle.

Anglers who fish Haulover Canal on a regular basis will tell you that it's a good idea to use Power Pro or some other braid as your main line. Braided lines are stronger and considerably more resistant to cutoffs from the Coquina rocks that line the banks of the canal. The Coquina can easily abrade and weaken monofilament lines, especially with a really big fish.

Until next time,

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SUPPORT COPY: Your September 2025🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2025-09-01T00:05:42-04:00

Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 194 September 1, 2025



Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River: Although hurricane Erin did not affect us weather wise, it did push a lot of water and bait into the northern Mosquito Lagoon and New Smyrna Beach area. The higher water levels dispersed the concentrated bait pods and the predatory fish in these areas and for a short time changed the fishing conditions. Speckled sea trout, redfish, and snook that normally hang around the edges of the bars and grassy areas moved on top of the grassy flats and sand bars. In Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach waters south through the Mosquito Lagoon, the influx of baitfish moving in along the beaches has created a frenzy with snook, tarpon, redfish, trout, jacks, bluefish and several other species. As the storm moved northward, the water levels are returning to normal in the lagoon and Indian River and the bite for sea trout, redfish, and snook has been excellent throughout our area. Up in the Mosquito Lagoon around Preachers Island, Middle island, all the way up to the Goodrich Lease and all the way up to the Hong Kong flats, the redfish are striking pigfish, finger mullet and shrimp under popping corks. The sharp drop offs next to shallow flats in the Tiger Shoal area and the outer bars towards Pardon Slew in the middle to northern section of the lagoon are also good places to target larger fish. Flats fishing on the Mosquito Lagoon and several places on the Indian River is where you are going to find sea trout right now. Some large speckled trout in the "gator trout" class and redfish are being caught on the upper Mosquito Lagoon grass flats. Most of the trout are being caught in the 2 to 4 foot depths by anglers fishing popping corks with live shrimp, or small live pigfish and croakers. "Walk the dog" topwater plugs and popping plugs have also been working really well first thing in the morning on the larger fish. Zara Spooks, Rapala Skitterwalks, Chug Bugs, Super Spooks, Bass Pro Shop's XPS Slim Dog, and Bad-A-Donks are some of the best top water baits for larger trout in our area, especially when smear them up with some Pro-Cure Inshore Formula Gel. When targeting big gator trout, try drifting a large live mullet or croaker under a float with the bait just off the bottom. Anywhere you find an abundant food source like pilchards, finger mullet, croakers, or pigfish near good cover is potentially where you will find a gator trout. Our average size sea trout is running anywhere from 12 to 17 inches. Most of the big trout caught in the Mosquito Lagoon are in the 24 to 28 inch category but a few larger fish in the 28 to 30 inch category have been caught on large live baits in the northern and central section of the lagoon around the back of the spoil islands. Smaller sea trout are more common and easy to find with a live shrimp or a saltwater assassin sea shad rigged under a "rattlin" or regular popping cork; especially during the windier days. Snook season reopens today. Anglers targeting snook in our area already know that the bite during the closed spawning season around the Space Coast has been red hot all summer. The backwaters are full of smaller size snook and all of our inlets and beaches are holding bigger fish. Small mullet and smaller size artificial baits work best on backwater snook that are feeding on smaller 4 to 5 inch fingerling mullet in the area. Night fishing the docks and bridges for snook in the Indian River from New Smyrna to Sebastian is extremely productive during the summer months and into the fall. Live shrimp are working best at night along the New Smyrna north and south causeway bridges and the Dunelatton bridge. The snook have been holding just inside the shadow lines under the bridges A live shrimp freelined along the shadows is deadly. At night, R&R Flairhawk jigs, 5" to 6" Saltwater Assassin swim baits on a jig head, and Artemis Shads on a 1.5 oz jighead skipped under the docks are killer baits for snook and a variety of other species. Lipped diving plugs resembling a mullet in the 5 to 7 inch range work well on big snook. At Ponce Inlet and Sebastian, lipped diving plugs in the 2 to 7 inch range are the baits of choice for night fishermen right now. If you're fishing during the daytime, live baits like croakers, pogies, pinfish or mullet are your best bet. With all the mullet running up and down our area beaches, mullet will obviously be the preferred bait around the inlets and in the surf. The best place to find inshore snook in the Mosquito Lagoon is to target the deep holes, creeks, and channels of the ICW. Around Titusville and New Smyrna Beach, snook can be found holding tight to shoreline cover where they use the overhanging brush, mangrove roots, sticks, and docks as ambush points for baitfish. One of the best ways to target these snook is with a large mullet or pinfish tossed tight to an ambush point. Anglers walking Peacocks Pocket Road have been catching snook up to 30 inches using live shrimp and mullet. Soft plastic D.O.A. Cal jerk baits, Saltwater Assassin 4" or 5" Sea Shad on a jig head, Gulp jerk shad, or any soft plastic bait skipped under a dock or tight to shoreline bushes will also produce bites. Smearing your lures with Pro-Cure gel or other scent will dramatically improve your hookup ratio. Our average snook is running 28 to 38 inches. The black drum bite around Titusville has been consistent on the mud flats and around the sandy pot holes in the grassy flats. Anglers targeting black drum on the flats have been using live shrimp, small crabs, or sections of fresh blue crab for bait. The construction along the causeway prohibits bank fishing in that area but along the Catfish Creek, Gator Creek, Puckett Creek and Haulover Canal areas, single fish and smaller pods of slot size Black Drum are still schooling in good numbers. Live or dead shrimp and cut blue crab are baits of choice in these areas. The two fishing piers under the A. Max Brewer bridge, the railroad bridge going to the Cape in Titusville, and the Space Center bridge will be great places to catch both slot size and oversize drum this month. The deeper waters around the bridge pilings frequently produce black drum up to 40 pounds. In our area, a lot of quality black drum are caught along the mangrove covered shorelines and the drop offs in the ICW. The ICW in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River is still producing good size tarpon for anglers fishing mullet or pinfish using 7/0 circle hooks. The fish have been ranging from 40 to over 100 pounds in our area. The southern portion of the Mosquito Lagoon close to Playalinda Beach road has been holding some nice tarpon up to the 100 pound range. The fish in these areas are hitting large D.O.A. Baitbuster lures and anything resembling a fingler mullet.

Port Canaveral Nearshore and Offshore:

Offshore anglers out of Port Canaveral slow trolling small lures and chin weighted ballyhoo are reporting good catches of dolphin, wahoo, and blackfin tuna near the rips associated with the western edge of the Gulf Stream, especially where it lines up over the tops of the Oculina Coral banks in our region.

Wahoo are all over the place right now, especially over the 70 to 90 foot reefs where the bigger wahoo have been moving in and start feeding on the smaller kingfish. Don't be surprised this time of the year if you hookup with a small kingfish while slow trolling and have a big wahoo take your catch.

For the most part, Wahoo cant resist dark skirts and big swimming plugs pulled at 9 to 15 knots.

The key to getting them into the boat is not to slow down once they are hooked. They are fast swimmers and can outrun you once you slow the boat down or kick it out of gear.

Our average wahoo is running about 35 to 45 pounds but fish up to 60 pounds are common on the space coast.

The other species that is showing up in decent numbers right now is the cobia.

As the water clears up after the latest swell from offshore hurricane Erin, the reefs in the 75 to 140 foot depths are starting to come alive again.

The guys slow trolling for king mackerel with live or frozen baitfish on wire stinger rigs have been getting the most shots at the cobia right now when the fish come popping up behind the boat or when they are siting at anchor.

This time of the year you can find cobia around the bait pods in the 30 to 50 foot depths.

Pilchards, pogies, and croakers are great live baits to drop down and find cobia with.

If cobia show up around the bait pods, rig up a Penn Slammer 5500 with some 30 or 40 pound test and a 50 or 60 pound leader and pitch a live bait or cobia jig to them around the edges of the pods.

The fish below was caught just outside of the buoy line at Cape Canaveral around a bait pod between buoys 3 and 4.

Fishing on the bottom with live or chunk baits just off the Kennedy Space Center launch pads in 70 to 90 feet of water is also very productive for cobia.

Because the cold water upwelling that we experience pushes the fish around quite a bit, a lot of the shoals out there hold good numbers of cobia.

Places like Chester Shoal, the Southeast Shoal, and Ohio Shoal can have cobia on them any time there is a cold water upwelling. The fish will move off of the shoals into slightly deeper water structures right after the upwelling subsides.

Kingfish are a staple catch in our area. The kingfish have finished spawning on the beaches and are moving onto the 60 - 120 foot reefs; 8A, Pelican Flats, etc.

Anglers slow trolling wire stinger rigs with two #4 or two #2 treble hooks to keep the baitfish lively have been catching king mackerel in the 7 to 15 pound category. Live menhaden are abundant and work best but frozen cigar minnows work equally well.

Tip your live baits with some dusters to perk up the bite.

Closer inshore, snook bite at all of our inlets has been outstanding for anglers fishing with live croakers, pinfish, mullet, or pilchards. The night time snook bite at all of our inlets has also been good for the past few weeks.

Night fishing anglers at Sebastian Inlet are reporting good catches of snook up to 38 inches.

Although anglers fishing large swim baits near the T-dock and cleaning table have been getting the most hookups, a lot of night fishermen along the docks and bridges use R&R Flair Hawk jigs, large 5 and 6 inch Assassin swim baits, and large 7" lipped diving plugs for snook with great success.

Most anglers believe that the incoming tides are the best times to fish swimbaits at Sebastian.

Bottom fishermen out of Port Canaveral this month is a mixed bag of triggerfish, lane, mango, mutton, and vermilion snapper from the 80 foot depths out with most of the fish coming from the northern section of our region.

The offshore mangrove snapper bite on structure in 80 to 120 feet of water has been really good with fish from 3 to 10 pounds. Anglers using chunk baits on 40 pound fluorocarbon leaders were catching the larger fish.

The offshore mangrove snapper bite out of Ponce Inlet has also been pretty steady with anglers fishing live pigfish and cut baits.

Playalinda and Area Beaches:

September and October is the best time of the year to catch snook in the surf.

With the opening of snook season today, a lot of surf fishermen will be targeting snook in the sloughs along our beaches as well as the jetties and sea walls at Port Canaveral.

The mullet run along the Space Coast peaks this month throughout the Central East region and is now in full gear. Mullet and other baitfish are pouring down the beaches along with snook, tarpon, jack Crevalle and sharks in close proximity.

The snook off the beach and in the surf are feeding like crazy. The bite has been on fire at all the inlets as well as along the beaches.

In addition to snook and tarpon being in full swing this month, we will also start seeing schools of migrating pompano pushing into Brevard County waters.

Generally, some early schools will start appearing on our beaches this month, but the hottest pompano activity doesn’t really ramp up until late October and early November.

Snook and pods of tarpon are already feeding in the first troughs. The preferred method for targeting snook in the surf is the gorilla style surf fishing approach.

Unencumbered mobility is the key to this style of fishing. Anglers have the freedom to quickly move up and down the beach to chase after predatory species while actively fishing for pompano and whiting.

Surf anglers using a single 7 1/2 to 8 foot rod with a 4,000 to 5,000 series reel and a pack with swim baits, jigs, plugs and/or live baits are able to quickly cast to busting snook or tarpon while fishing for pompano and whiting on their 2 or 3 hook surf rigs.

Success is dependent on the waves of migratory baitfish passing through a given area, each week.

Before unpacking your tackle, start exploring several beaches for diving birds, exploding baitfish, leaping tarpon or snook, or fish crashing along the shoreline.

When you discover a potential hotspot with clean water conditions, set out your surf rods for pompano with crab or clam flavored Fishbites, tipped with sand fleas or fresh pieces of shrimp.

Toss live baits caught from the surf, or large 5 inch swimbaits, Flair jigs, or Rapala X-Raps to busting fish.

The jetties and sea walls at Port Canaveral, the causeway bridge fenders at New Smyrna Beach, and the bridge fenders at the A1A bridge leading to Sebastian Inlet are all great spots to target snook this month.

The surf around Patrick Space Force Base is also a good place for anglers targeting snook.

A large 12 inch mullet on a sliding sinker rig cast out past the worm rocks will usually get you a hookup if the snook are in the area. If the snook aren't hitting, you can count on getting a shark of some species.

During daylight periods, most anglers fish with live finger mullet on a jig head or a knocker rig around the piers, sea walls, docks, and jetties. During overcast periods and periods of low light, anglers have been getting solid bites on a Rapala X-Rap and X-Rap Long Cast baits as well.

Night time anglers targeting snook along the piers, sea walls, docks, and jetties have been getting good hookups on saltwater assassin Artemis Shads and R&R swimbaits. These baits minimize the fish throwing the baits. They look like a mullet but when a fish is hooked, the hooks pull away from the plastic bait.

A lot of night fishermen who target the inlet jetties, cat walks, pilings, and sea walls for snook prefer using large Rapala X-Rap 14 baits, or large Saltwater Assassin 5" or 6" swim baits on big jig heads with 7/0 or 8/0 hooks. Baits smeared up with some Pro-Cure gel or other scent will normally get more bites.

Until next time,
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SUPPORT COPY: Your August 2025🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2025-08-01T00:06:51-04:00

Mosquito Lagoon &

Indian River

Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 193 August 1, 2025



Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River: Water levels in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River are still low but the bite for sea trout, redfish, snook and tarpon has been good throughout most of our area. In the early morning hours during the summer months sea trout, redfish, and snook are usually found in shallow water on the flats. As the sun warms the water, the fish move into the deeper water drop offs adjacent to the flats, usually around 9:00 am. During the magic early morning hours, many anglers in our area toss top water baits like Zara Spooks, Rapala Skitterwalks, Chug Bugs, Super Spooks, XPS Slim Dogs, and Bad-A-Donks until the bite subsides and then switch to plastic jerk baits or live baits in the afternoon to target the fish in deeper waters adjacent to the shallower grass flats. A productive strategy is to explore the spoil islands and sandbars on foot. Wading these areas and looking for concentrations of trout around the depth changes can often produce some large fish. Large top water baits smeared up with Pro-Cure Inshore Formula gel are preferred when fishing for the bigger "gator" trout in our area but so far this month, live baits have been working best for trout, reds, and snook. Right now, the trout bite in the northern and middle sections of the Mosquito Lagoon has been really good around the grassy areas, with croakers fished under a Cajun Thunder type float as the preferred method for taking them. The trout have been schooling up on the grassy flats in the Tiger Shoal area and the outer bars towards Pardon Slew. The middle to northern section of the lagoon has also been producing big fish along the docks, the transition zones at the rocky ledges, and the overhanging mangroves. Live shrimp and small croakers are reportedly the baits of choice for both speckled sea trout and redfish in this area, but anglers tossing 4 inch Sea Shads, Saltwater Assassin Artemis Shads and other artificial baits are also getting their share of fish. Our average Mosquito Lagoon sea trout is running anywhere from 12 to 17 inches with a few larger fish running up into the low 20s. Most of the mangrove covered shorelines in the Indian and banana rivers have been holding trout and some snook. The snook under the mangroves are running anywhere from 27 to 34 inches. Currently there are quite a few larger tarpon moving around the ICW in the Banana and Indian Rivers. You will typically find them in areas with steep drop offs in the ICW and dredged out areas around docks. They have been hanging out around mullet, pilchard, or pogie pods either in the middle of the channel or around dredge hole areas. These fish have been responding well to small paddle tail baits worked with a slow, steady retrieve. Some baits of choice are the Heddon Chug N Spook and Z-Man MinnowZ in the Hot Snakes color. For the past few weeks, the ICW in the Indian River from Melbourne to Titusville has been having a lot of activity from rolling tarpon, big bull sharks, jack crevalle, and big sail cats that were travelling with the schools of tarpon. Find some cleaner water areas with the bait pods and you will find the predators right behind them. Last week there will still be some bull sharks hanging around the ICW channel in the Indian River mainly from Port St. John to Titusville. The tarpon in that area can be seen rolling early in the mornings when the water is calmer until later in the day when the wind picks up. You can also find schools of big jacks chasing the mullet up and down the lagoon system in this area. If you get out ahead of the pods and throw a big topwater plug, large paddletail bait, or Artemis Shad, you can generally hook them up pretty quick. By the time you land the fish, you have to run up the river a quarter mile or so to get ahead of the fish to get another bite. The black drum bite has been consistent around the sandy pot holes in the grassy flats where the fish can be found foraging on crustaceans. A lot of quality black drum are caught along the mangrove shorelines, drop offs in the ICW, and the deeper water around the bridge pilings in our area. The two fishing piers under the A. Max Brewer bridge, the railroad bridge going to the Cape in Titusville, and the deep waters of Haulover Canal are great places to catch both slot size and oversize drum up to 40 pounds or more. Live shrimp and cut blue crab are baits of choice in these areas. The flats up in the north side of the Indian River around Scotsmoor, basically the Mims area around Shiloh, are holding schools of good redfish right now. And, finally down in the Banana River, the west bank from Pineda to 520 seems to be holding good concentrations of redfish.

Port Canaveral Nearshore and Offshore:

Although it’s been blistering hot out, but the fish are on fire!

During the red snapper season last month, just about everybody who fished over hard bottom outside of 15 miles caught their limit of red snapper.

Obviously some of the better catches came out of the 27 fathom ridge and the "cones" from the guys fishing big live baits like blue runners, bluefish, croakers, and grunt on the bigger snapper.

The guys trolling live or frozen minnows on wire stinger rigs over the 70 to 90 foot reefs throughout our region have been getting a mixed bag of some nice king mackerel, cobia (some nice ones), mahi, blackfin tuna, and even a couple of Wahoo here and there.

Because live baits have been hard to find, most anglers have been getting their limits on frozen baits slow trolled on wire rigs over the reefs.

A few anglers pulling spoons, diving plugs and live baits on downriggers 40 to 50 feet down over the 70 to 90 foot ledges south of Ponce Inlet and have been catching some nice kings in that area. Lately, a lot more kingfish are being caught in that area on spoons and sea witches with strips pulled behind the planers.

The kingfish in our area are running about 15 to 20 pounds.

The redfish bite along the nearshore coastal waters around the Space Coast continues to be as hot as the air temperatures.

The fish are still gathering up in their pre-spawn aggregation with schools numbering up to 400 to 500 fish. When the schools get to this size, the redfish act like a ravenous school of big jacks that attack any bait you throw at them.

When these groups start to feed heavily; tarpon, jacks, and sometimes even cobia can be found roaming with the redfish.

Closer to shore, the snook bite along the jetties at Port Canaveral and along the beach where you can find mullet, is solid.

The tarpon are still scattered up and down the ICW as well as all along the beaches, along with sharks that are also along the beach under the mullet.

Fine tooth, blacktip, and spinner sharks are the most predominant species being caught right now out from the sand.

Quite a few flounder are beginning to show up offshore on the sandy bottoms just off the near shore reefs.

Catch them on knocker rigs with 3/0 circle hooks or a 1/2 oz jig tipped with a live shrimp or a mud minnow.

Locating flounder is easy. Simply drift along the sandy bottom until you locate them and then anchor off.

Flounder in our area are running in the 15 to 22 inch range.

During hotter weather, you don't have to get very far out to get into some decent action. Right now there are some good size cobia in around 40 to 45 feet of water out of Port Canaveral, as well as some shadowing the near shore bait pods.

Playalinda and Area Beaches:

Today the surf in the Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach area is clean with 0 to 1 foot waves and little to no weeds, which makes for some decent summertime surf fishing.

Schools of baitfish, including mullet and glass minnows are in the area along with the bluefish, tarpon, jacks, sharks and snook that follow them.

For the above species, the surf fishermen in our area have been using live mullet, shrimp, croakers, cut mullet and a variety of medium size swimbaits. Right now, the chunked baits have been working well on keeper bluefish and sharks.

When the bite is on, small silver spoons, Gotcha plugs, Lhure Jensen type spoons, paddletail baits and Mirrolures fished past the breakers and in the troughs can often out fish live baits.

Whiting, croakers, and a few resident pompano are being caught along our beaches by anglers using sand fleas, shrimp, Fishbites, and peeled fresh dead shrimp.

A lot of surf fishermen at Playalinda Beach in the Canaveral Natioinal Seashore have been making nice catches of decent sized whiting on sand fleas tipped with Fishbites and small pieces of peeled shrimp on double drop pompano rigs with colored floats to keep the baits off the bottom. Depending on surf conditions, 2 to 6 oz pyramid sinkers are needed to hold bottom.

Locating pompano and whiting during the summer months is the key to a successful fishing tirip. Clear water, depth changes, and bottom structure are all important. Pinpoint the sloughs, runoffs, and breaks in the sandbars that the fish use to swim between the troughs, and the likelihood of success increases dramatically.

Pay attention to the sand in the surf for areas where small shells are piling up and where sections of the beach have small bubbles popping up as the water recedes. These are areas where sand fleas, small clams, and crabs are being pulled out into the deeper troughs where the fish are holding. The fish will often stage just outside of the rips to snatch up crustaceans as they are being pulled out into the troughs.

Although the deeper troughs in between the sandbars farther out are where the larger whiting and pompano schools are usually holding, pompano and whiting can also be found in the closest troughs to the beach where they can be caught with short casts and light spinning tackle.

When the fish are in the nearest trough, small pompano jigs tipped with a sand flea, a small piece of shrimp, or a sand flea/fishbite combination make excellent baits for pompano and whiting. .

Because the fish are constantly foraging up and down the beach, some areas will be hot one day and have zero bites the next day in the very same spot.

When this happens, pick up your gear and move to another section of the beach or relocate to another entirely new area until you find where the fish are holding. The fish are always feeding. You just have to find out where they are at.

The best bite for most species is usually in the early morning hours during the last portion of an incoming tide, however, the outgoing and last portion of any incoming tide will usually produce fish. In general, surf fishing is good during any moving water condition, regardless of the tide.

Try not to fish the same spot where you caught fish the previous day. Because wave action constantly changes the structure of the beach, fish will seldom be in the same exact spot they were at the previous day.

Finally, when you locate a likely looking stretch of beach where fish may be feeding, stake out at least two rods on the beach and set your baits at varying distances from the shore. When you start catching fish, set all your baits at that general distance in the same general area.

2025 Lobster Season:

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Although the sport season for lobster is now over, the regular spiny lobster season reopens for recreational and commercial harvesting on August 6th. and runs through March 31st.

Spiny lobster must be measured in the water and have a carapace that exceeds 3 inches in length.

The carapace is measured beginning at the forward edge between the rostral horns, excluding any soft tissue, and proceeding along the middle to the rear edge of the carapace.

The daily bag limit and on-the-water possession limit is 6 per person.

Harvesting is prohibited in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park during the sport season, and in Everglades National Park, Dry Tortugas National Park, no-take areas in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and in the Biscayne Bay/Card Sound Lobster Sanctuary during both the 2-day sport season and the regular season.

Here in the the East Central region, we harvest some really giant lobster in the 70 to 90 foot reefs.

The smaller ones generally show up on the near coastal reefs south of us from Sebastian south to Vero beach.

Our average lobster runs about 2 to 3 pounds, but the bigger ones in our area can exceed 10 pounds.

For additional information on harvesting Spiny Lobster Click Here .

Until next time,
Tight Lines and bent rods!

1575 Silk Oak Ave,
Titusville, FL
32796, USA

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SUPPORT COPY: Your July 2025🐬 Mosquito Lagoon & Indian River Fishing Report

2025-07-01T00:05:44-04:00

Mosquito Lagoon &

Indian River

Fishing

Newsletter Issue # 192 July 1, 2025



Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River: Although water levels in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River are still down, the bite for sea trout, redfish, and snook has been good throughout our area. Flats fishing on the Mosquito Lagoon and several places on the Indian River is where you are going to find sea trout right now. The smaller trout are easy to find with a live shrimp or a saltwater assassin sea shad rigged under a "rattlin" or regular popping cork; especially during the windier days. Topwater walk the dog plugs and popping plugs are working really well first thing in the morning; particularly on the larger fish. Zara Spooks, Rapala Skitterwalks, Chug Bugs, Super Spooks, Bass Pro Shop's XPS Slim Dog, and Bad-A-Donks are some of the best top water baits for larger trout in our area, especially when smear them up with some Pro-Cure Inshore Formula Gel. For anglers who have a hard time "walking the dog" with hard plugs, the Assassin Salty Snack with a wide gap worm hook in it walks like crazy and is really effective on large trout. If you are after really big gator trout, try drifting a big live mullet or croaker under a float. Set the depth to keep the bait just off the bottom. Anywhere you find good cover and an abundant food source like pilchards, finger mullet, croakers, or pigfish you are liable to find a breeder sea trout. Our average size sea trout in the Mosquito Lagoon right now is running anywhere from 12 to 15 or 17 inches with a few larger fish running up into the low 20s. There are also quite a few larger fish running up into the 28 to 30 inch category that are being caught on large live baits particularly in the northern and central to southern section of the lagoon. The back areas around the spoil islands is where many of the larger fish like to hunt. Look for larger sea trout around the transition zones of rocky edges, docks, overhanging mangrove trees, or shallow water adjacent to deeper water. The sharp drop offs next to shallow flats in the Tiger Shoal area and the outer bars towards Pardon Slew in the middle to northern section of the lagoon are good places to target larger fish. During the summer months, it pays to get out early, keep quiet and not run across the flat when approaching your fishing area. Those bigger fish are in there but unless you use a trolling motor or push pole to approach them, you will blow them out and put down the bite. Kayak and wade fishermen are getting consistent bites on top water baits during the early morning hours from sea trout in the 20 inch and over category north and south of the Bio Lab boat launch. The water in that area is clear enough for sight fishing and the trout are holding around the sandy patches in the grass in about a foot and a half to three feet of water. The drop off about 100 yards from the road is also a good area to target early in the morning and closer to dusk. Most of the big trout caught in the Mosquito Lagoon are running in the 24 to 28 inch category. The snook bite in or area remains strong throughout the region. The Atlantic Snook season closed June 1st and re-opens August 31st; so right now it's a catch and release fishery. According to some of the captains in that area, the docks and causeway bridges in the New Smyrna area are hot spots right now for snook. Anglers have been pulling fish in the 18 to 30 inch category on a regular basis. In the south portion of our area, the mangrove islands in the vicinity of Vero Beach are holding excellent numbers of snook as well. Live baits, small soft plastic jerk baits or small shrimp imitations are working best during the daylight hours when cast underneath structure and mangrove trees along the shorelines. The mangrove covered shorelines where mullet are congregating from Mullet Creek to Hole in the Wall Island is a really productive area right now for anglers using live mullet or lures that imitate them. The black drum bite in our area is usually pretty consistent during the month of July. Expect to find schools of slot size Black Drum around the Coco Beach Thousand Islands area, George's Bar, Honest Johns Canal, Catfish Creek, Snook Creek, and the flats and near mangrove covered shorelines in the Banana River. Live shrimp and cut blue crab are baits of choice in these areas. A lot of slot size black drum in our area are caught along the mangrove covered shorelines and the deeper waters around bridge pilings. The drop offs in the ICW, the two fishing piers under the A. Max Brewer bridge, and the railroad bridge in Titusville are great places to catch both slot size and oversize drum. Live shrimp, dead shrimp, cut blue crabs, fiddler crabs, and even sand fleas can be used in these areas to catch black drum up to 40 pounds or more. The inshore bite in the New Smyrna beach area for tarpon has been great on the first and last hours of an outgoing tide. Anglers have been using circle hooks and a live pinfish or mullet for bait and drifting it towards the fish on the outgoing tide. The ICW in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River is also producing good tarpon for anglers fishing a mullet or pinfish using 7/0 circle hooks. The fish have been ranging from 30 to over 100 pounds in the New Smyrna area and can be very leader shy when the water is clear. Downsize the 30 pound leader when fishing for the smaller fish and the 50 pound leader when targeting larger tarpon. The southern portion of the Mosquito Lagoon close to Playalinda Beach road and the flats around the Peacocks Pocket small boat launch has also been holding some nice tarpon up to the 100 pound range. The fish in these areas have been hitting large D.O.A. Baitbuster lures and anything resembling a finglerling mullet.

Port Canaveral Nearshore and Offshore:

The lane snapper bite offshore at Ponce Inlet has been lit up for the past few weeks. Anglers have been targeting snapper in 120 feet of water or less with live and cut baits. The fish haven't been really very picky.

The lane snapper bite on the Volusia county reef in 60 to 80 feet of water is really good for anglers using live shrimp and squid on a chicken rig. Some of the better reefs to catch them are the ones with culverts or rock piles. The fish are averaging around 3 pounds and running 14 to 15 inches long with some in the 21 inch category.

Out of Port Canaveral, both the Mangrove and Lane snapper bite is hot on structure in the 70 to 130 foot depths. The bigger mangrove snapper have started to school up on the reefs and wrecks offshore Port Canaveral for their annual spawn, mainly the wrecks in about 70 to 110 feet of water, .

Right now there are not large numbers of fish, but the ones being caught are quality fish in the 10 pound and over category. Fingerling mullet, pinfish, and cut baits on a standard bottom rig are producing fish.

Offshore the flounder have been arriving late this year and can now be found in good numbers on sandy bottoms just off the near shore reefs.

The Flager, Sunglow, and site 5 and 6 reefs are great places to catch them either on knocker rigs with 3/0 circle hooks or a 1/2 oz jig tipped with live shrimp or mud minnows.

The easiest way to locate flounder is to drift along the sandy bottom until you locate them and then anchor off.

Some of the flounder caught in these areas are in the 15 to 21 inch range.

June and July is when the king mackerel bite on all of the 70 to 90 foot reefs in our area begins to light up. Last week the king mackerel bite on the 60 to 90 foot reefs out of Port Canaveral was hot with most anglers getting their limit of kingfish on frozen bait fish slow trolled on a wire stinger rig.

Slow trolling live baits on a stinger rig is the preferred method for taking kings in our area, but a lot of anglers like to flat line a live bait on a stinger rig with #4 wire or with 60# mono for larger fish. A good number of anglers out of Port Canaveral prefer slow trolling large spoons and lipped diving plugs in the 5 to 7 inch category, especially during the early morning and evening hours.

Pulling baits, spoons, and diving plugs 40 to 50 feet down on a downrigger over the 70 to 90 foot ledges south of Ponce Inlet usually produces some really good results.

In our region, you don't have to go far offshore to target kingfish. We currently have a mullet run coming up the beach that is bringing in the kings, tarpon, and other predatory species close to the sand. Pier and surf anglers have been catching them on live mullet when they shadow the baitfish closer to the beach.

A couple of weeks ago an angler fishing from the Jetty Park fishing pier made an incredible catch of a 30 pound king mackerel with a live mullet on a pin rig.

The offshore dolphin bite in our area begins to ramp up this month. Dolphin normally start moving closer inshore this time of the year.

They were in 200 feet of water, then 180 feet, and will get closer to the beach as the month progresses. It all depends on water clarity, the amount of bait around, and other features that the fish normally gravitate to like thermoclines, current rips, sargassum lines, and other floating debris.

Pelican, 8A, and the other nearshore reefs will be good spots for catching dolphin this month, especially during the early morning hours.

Typically instead of using heavier gear, offshore anglers targeting dolphin out of Port Canaveral will use 30 pound class Penn lever drag reels with 30 to 40 pound mono to pull their baits. This setup makes catching smaller fish a lot more fun while still having the capability to catch larger fish when you get them on.

Most anglers targeting dolphin and blackfin tunas on 30 pound class tackle like to pull smaller Islander lures with small ballyhoo or strip baits, chinned naked ballyhoo, or squid chains along the rips, thermoclines, weed lines and floating debris. On bright sunny days yellow, pink, and bright blue colors work well. On dark overcast days, go with the darker black, red, and purple colors.

Right now the dolphin are averaging about 5 to 10 pounds with a few larger fish in the mix.

Although snook season is closed, they will be thick in the jetties of all three of our Inlets this month.

The daytime fishery at the inlets has been outstanding for anglers fishing with live croakers, pinfish, mullet, or pilchards. The night time snook bite at all of our inlets has also been good for the past few weeks.

Night fishing anglers at Sebastian Inlet are reporting good catches of snook up to 30 inches.

Most anglers believe that the incoming tides are the best times to fish swimbaits at Sebastian.

Playalinda and Area Beaches:

For the most part there has been little to no weeds in the surf in the Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach areas which makes for some decent surf fishing.

Whiting, palometas, sharks and a few resident pompano will be the main catch this month. The baits of choice in our area has been live sand fleas, fresh or frozen shrimp, and fishbites rigged on a bare or colored float pompano rig with a 3 to 6 oz. pyramid sinker to hold bottom.

Around Playalinda most anglers have been using live sand fleas or sand fleas tipped with fishbites, and small pieces of shrimp on double drop pompano rigs.

The key to finding pompano during the summer months is water clarity, depth changes, and bottom structure.

Pompano and Whiting cruise up and down the beach in small schools constantly feeding on small crustaceans that they find in the troughs and runouts.

The deeper troughs in between the sandbars farther out are where the larger whiting and pompano schools are usually holding and where most surf fishermen target their casts. However, pompano and whiting are also found in the closest troughs to the beach where they can be caught with short casts and light tackle.

When the fish are in the nearest trough, small jigs tipped with a sand flea, small piece of shrimp, a sand flea with fishbites to better hold it on the hook or just fishbites are excellent baits for pompano and whiting.

Breaks, runoffs, and cuts in a sandbar are used by the fish use to swim between troughs. These areas can be hot spots for both whiting and pompano.

On calm days when the ocean is clear enough to easily identify troughs and runouts; make a mental note of the structures and target these areas with sand fleas, shrimp, clam, or Fishbites on your pompano rigs.

Because the fish are constantly foraging along the beach, some areas will be hot one day and have zero bites the next day in the very same spot.

Although the best bite is usually in the early morning hours during the last portion of an incoming tide; the outgoing and last portion of any incoming tide will usually produce fish. Generally, fishing is good during any moving water condition, regardless of the tide.

Many novice surf fishermen get skunked and discouraged because they set their sand spikes where there aren't any actively feeding fish. Learn to read the beach before setting up your rods.

Pompano, bull whiting, black drum, and redfish will often stage just outside of the rips to snatch up crustaceans as they are being pulled out into the troughs.

Try not to fish the same spot where you caught fish the previous day. Because the wave action constantly changes the structure of the beach, fish will seldom be in the same exact spot they were at the previous day.

Finally, when you locate a likely looking section of the beach where fish may be feeding, stake out several rods on the beach and set your baits at varying distances from the shore. Keep your baits in the feeding zone and when you start catching fish, set all your baits in that general area.

Not paying attention to these basics is what caused me to get skunked on many a day surf fishing. Now I catch fish.

Surf fishermen using live and cut mullet this month can expect to catch bluefish, Spanish mackerel, snook, jacks, tarpon and the usual variety of sharks off the beach.

Small silver spoons, Gotcha plugs, Lhure Jensen spoons and Mirrolures fished past the breakers and in the troughs can often out fish live baits when the bite is on.

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2025 Lobster Season:

The July 30-31st Spiny Lobster sport season this year is just around the corner and some of the best spiny lobstering outside of the Florida Keys is available to our residents right outside of Port Canaveral. Divers will be allowed a generous harvest of 6 lobsters per person during the two day season.

Although a lot of East Central Florida residents flock down to the keys; the waters out of Ponce, Canaveral, and Sebastian Inlets produce some of the best lobstering in the entire state of Florida, with "bugs" in the 6 to 10 pound plus category taken regularly .

During the July 24th and 25th sport season, and the regular season that begins August 6th and ends March 31st, divers out of all three inlets will be scouring the 50 to 55 foot reefs in search of the tasty "bugs".

More experienced professional divers that regularly descend to depths of 90 feet or more usually fill their quotas with much larger bugs.

In our area, the largest lobsters are found in the 50 to 90 foot depths. Small craft unable to access these depths can still hunt them on the shallower water artificial reefs like those out of Ponce Inlet.

The stretch of beach between Wabasso Beach and Ft. Pierce Inlet is a popular area for beach divers who routinely snorkel out into 15 or 20 feet of water where some big spiny lobsters are often found. The Wabasso and Disney Beach areas annually produce "bugs" up to 15 pounds.

For additional information on the 2025 Florida Spiny Lobster Season, click on the icon at left.

Until next time,
Tight Lines and bent rods!

1575 Silk Oak Ave,
Titusville, FL
32796, USA

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