Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon

This past week was another productive week of catching. Reds have been plentiful combing the grass flats in the Mosquito Lagoon. Chip, Ron and Shawn Jones fished a half-day and caught twenty-five reds in the north end of the lagoon. Todd Ulrich and dad took twenty-two reds to thirty-two inches on shrimp and plastics. The trout are up on the flats with the reds but they have been feeding on fingermullet so I through a 12 Fathom shad and duplicated the colors. Pearl with a black or green back seems to work the best this week. If you want to catch a lot of smaller fish with a keeper here and there fish the clinkers with the three inch shad in smoke color with a eighth ounce jig head. I have not heard to much going on north in New Smyrna this week, one of my guide friends told me he fished yesterday and covered a lot of water and saw very little. Most of the fish are in the lagoon or in the Tamoka aria. I heard the snook were eating there.