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The Mosquito Lagoon and North Indian River
should continue to swing into their full winter mode.
As January opens, the redfish will continue to focus most of their attention on the bottom in very shallow water. This will make for some excellent sight fishing, that will continue throughout the month of January.
The crystal clear waters will also be good for seatrout around the deeper areas of the flats, and the drop offs adjacent to the flats in the lagoon.
The conditions on the Northern Indian River Lagoon will mirror those on the Mosquito Lagoon.
The redfish will be roaming the dark bottomed flats in small schools, and in singles or pairs looking for small crustaceans and bait fish.
Fly fishermen will do well with crab imitations when sight casting to tailing reds, or with clousers or other minnow imitations when blind casting.
Gold colored Red Ripper spoons, Bagly hammered spoons, Johnson Sprites, and paddle tail minnow imitations all work well on the flats for redfish and trout but should be fished SUPER SLOW.
Using DOA shrimp, on light lines and leaders also works great on the crystal clear water winter flats. Use darker root beer colors for darker, deeper water and light colors during most of your fishing in the clear shallows.
Just remember that slower the better, does the trick for winter flats fishing in both the Mosquito and Indian River Lagoons.
The recreational harvest season for
spotted seatrout will reopen in South Florida on Jan. 1.
The spotted
seatrout harvest has been closed since Nov. 1 in South Florida.
The
areas include Atlantic coast waters south of the
Flagler, Volusia county line, and Gulf coastal waters south of a line
running due west from the westernmost point of Fred Howard Park
Causeway.
January 2010 should ignite fishing as southern Florida sea trout and Gulf amberjack closures are reopened. | 