Mosquito Lagoon, John Kumiski

Slow Fishing Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Report

Thank you for reading this slow fishing Mosquito Lagoon fishing report. There’s a little Econlockhatchee River tossed in, too.

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Monday I went to see my doctor at the VA. She told me for my cough I should tape onion slices or garlic cloves to the soles of my feet before going to bed. What???

Tuesday I went to Mosquito Lagoon to go scouting, Beacon 42. I looked at the whitecaps and decided to go to River Breeze. I could just have gone home again. In five hours I got two bites on a plastic shad, catching a dink trout and a barely legal redfish. Under the clouds you couldn’t see much. Don’t think there was much around.

Wednesday fly caster Bill Rulen joined me for a day’s “fishing” on Mosquito Lagoon. I poled for miles, mostly trying to stay out of the wind while searching for fish that just never materialized. I saw maybe a dozen fish all day. Bill did not get a shot. Ouch.

After Wednesday’s spanking wasn’t too eager to go out on Thursday. I ran errands and did some research.

Friday there was a world-wide climate strike. I should have been there.

Friday garnered the highlight of my week. There’s a water body in Mims called Freshwater Lake. On google maps it looked hard to get to. Generally sweat equity = better fishing. I put the bicycle and a spin rod in the car and drove to the trailhead, where I wired the rod to the bicycle crossbar.

Then I went for a ride, quite a lovely one. Irises were blooming hard. I treed a raccoon. There was no road noise. I had the place to myself. The ride was awesome!

You can see a sliver of water, the lake it was.

What the “trail” looks like.

I found the lake but was unwilling to fight through the brush in an attempt to make a cast. Something about ticks and chiggers. Rode to the observation tower on Buck Lake, where I took my lunch.

The tower at Buck Lake.

Not too long ago Buck Lake was fantastic. Thick with aquatic vegetation, it supported lots of panfish and bass. When you visited you’d see lots of wading birds and alligators. Bullfrogs would be croaking, fish would be busting.

View from the top.

All the aquatic vegetation is gone. There are still cattails and water lilies but nothing else. From the observation tower I could see tilapia and gar, but no sunfish, wading birds, or alligators. I heard one lonely bullfrog. SJRWMD denies using herbicides there but something catastrophic has clearly occurred. I did not try casting. After lunch I returned to my car.

In the afternoon I tried shore fishing at the Econ, using plastic worms. I got hung four times in an hour or so, losing all my hooks. Got two dink bass, at least there was no skunk involved.

That’s this week’s slow fishing Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Report! Thanks for reading!

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John Kumiski
www.spottedtail.com