Well, I enjoyed the nice weather while it lasted… The wind of the past couple of days sure muddied-up most of the Mosquito Lagoon. Still, despite the dirty backwater bays and the wind-blown flats we managed a respectful catch today!
Michael treated his eight year old son, Ben, to a Mosquito Lagoon fishing charter. Our goal was to catch some trout and redfish and because they like using live shrimp for bait we expected to have to weed through the catfish.
The guys were certainly successful with the spotted seatrout. I quit counting at twenty fish; most of which were middle to upper slot. I was secretly thrilled as they decided to release their fish.
We started in the “clinkers” to shelter ourselves from the hard westerly wind we had at first light. After a handful of quality trout and a bonus flounder we packed up and crossed the ‘goon hoping to continue my streak of redfish catching along the east wall. This moved proved a very poor choice as the water looked like chocolate milk and only gave up a few catfish and a single trout.
Another move was certainly needed and I’m happy to report it payed off in spades! We fished through our remaining live shrimp in short order catching more quality seatrout, more nasty catfish and a chunky mangrove snapper!