John Kumiski, Mosquito Lagoon

Mosquito Lagoon/Port Canaveral Fishing Report

Thank you for reading this Mosquito Lagoon/Port Canaveral fishing report.

Checking my paperwork over last weekend I realized my fishing license had expired. A visit to the tax collector on Monday rectified the problem. But I was in for a pleasant surprise. “No charge,” the clerk said. Before asking why I realized there’s a good part to turning 65- no charge for fishing licenses now.

Where did the time go??

After the tax collector trip some visits to local bass venues was in order. Spot number one requires a ride on a bicycle. I ran over and close to minnows, frogs, baby alligators, and a garfish, but was unable to reach the lake. The water over the road is too deep.

Spot number two was completely overgrown with hydrilla.

Spot number three (my least favorite) was fishable. I got a single strike from a six inch bass. So ended Monday’s attempt at fishing.

Tuesday required scouting for Wednesday’s fishing trip, my first since returning from Alaska. I want it to be good! My first observation was that this poor guy had six vultures pecking at his much-nicer-than-mine truck-

I don’t understand the fascination vultures have for vehicles.

The sequence went something like this-
-find some clean water. Check.
-look for fish. Check. About ten redfish were observed, with two good shots resulting. Both were converted on a DOA CAL shad. I had a good shot at a nice trout, too, but missed the strike. I ran over a couple reds that should have been shots, just didn’t see them in time.

Redfish on CAL Shad. The pinfish keep biting the tails off.

After that I tried a few of trout spots with the Deadly Combo and found fish in two of them, easily getting into double digits. I hope the fish stay there overnight!

Wednesday came and I met my fishermen, Roberto and Martha Vasquez. We launched the Mitzi and ran to where I had found fish the previous day. We did not do well, a handful of dink trout to show for our efforts. Sometimes I wonder why I bother scouting. It so often changes so much from day to day.

Thursday one of the things I tried to do was fix my email. I was only marginally successful but managed to purge a lot of stuff I needed. If you’ve been trying to reach me and I haven’t responded I haven’t gotten it. Please try the gmail.com address, jkumiski. And thank you for your patience.

Friday Scott Radloff and I got out on the Atlantic. One throw of the castnet yieded over 100 finger mullet. Neither of us realized at theat moment that we had already peaked. In five hours Scott got a small sharpnose shark and a small crevalle. I got nothing. We saw very little. At least the water was pretty clean!

So fishing was not very good in this week’s Mosquito Lagoon/Port Canaveral fishing report! But thanks for reading!

Life is great and I love my work!

Life is short- Go Fishing!

John Kumiski
www.spottedtail.com
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