Indian River Lagoon & Banana River

This week's report on the upper Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon from Spotted Tail, updated 3/16 We had a long run of crappy weather, which hurt fly fishing. They're hard to fly fish when you can't see 'em. However, this last week has been pretty nice and the last couple of days just beautiful. The water in the lagoon system is still very low. On Friday last week I fished Carl Chambers, a fly fisher from Colorado. There were plenty of fish in the Mosquito Lagoon, a beautiful day. Carl struggled with his casting, but was finally rewarded with a beautiful 5 pound trout. Saturday and Sunday I fished Rit Thompson, a fly caster from the DC area. Rit had another gorgeous day on Saturday and got two trout to five pounds and four redfish to ten pounds. Sunday we had 20 knot winds and overcast. The water got muddied up, and one trout of about 5 pounds was all we could do, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday I took my kids kayak camping at the north end of Mosquito Lagoon. We found a nice school or redfish behind an island and got five of them, all on flies, nice fish of 7 or 8 pounds. Thursday I took the kids out of Port Canaveral, looking for Mr. Cobia. We hooked two, and Maxx put a 22 pounder in the boat. We also got a crevalle of 35 pounds and 6 tripletail to about 12 pounds. It was a wonderful day! It's great to be alive, and I love my work! Capt. John Kumiski