Saltwater
I spent Friday morning on Mosquito Lagoon with my brother in law, Chris. Between dirty, high water from last weeks rain and the algae bloom in the lagoon right now sight fishing was difficult.
We did find some redfish in one of the smaller creeks that was flooded from the rain. As Chris pushed the boat towards the end of the creek we saw one red back near the very end of the creek. Because the water was so shallow we decided to hop out of the boat and wade up into position to cast. The whole time wading up through the hard sandy bottom we never saw the fish again. Fifty feet from the end on the creek I decided to make a cast up towards where we had last seen the fish.
The cast laid out perfectly and I let it sit for 20 seconds. At the first twitch of the tan toad pattern the water exploded and I had hooked whatever was back in the end of the creek. Since the creek was only about ten feet wide at that point it went immediately towards the mangrove shoots and wrapped the fly line around a mess of branches. Then the fish turned and ran towards the opening of the creek and our boat. I felt slack but, a second later felt the weight of the fish again on the line. A couple minutes later I had a nice lagoon redfish in hand.
The rest of the morning proved rather uneventful. Now it’s back to the freshwater with NoMotorGuide Service. I’ll be off the water a couple days this week since I’ll be at the Federation of Fly Fishers Expo in Kissimmee with my new book, Fly Fishing Central Florida’s Freshwater.
