| Captain Richard is a Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Guide
out of Cocoa Beach, Florida
Read Captain Richard's August Mosquito
Lagoon Redfish Fishing Report.
Mosquito Lagoon Redfish Information
Redfish are undoubtably the most popular inshore gamefish
in the Mosquito Lagoon area. A redfish's size, habits, habitat
and quality meat make it a remarkable challenge for anglers
to pursue in the shallow water estuaries surrounding the Mosquito
Lagoon.
There are many different ways to catch a redfish on the Mosquito
Lagoon but the most popular is by sightfishing in the shallow
waters while push-poling along in a shallow draft boat made
popular in the last few decades by manufacturers that are
designed and made specifically to pursue redfish and other
shallow water preditor species around many of Florida's lagoon
system. Mosquito Lagoon redfish guide Captain Richard Bradley
uses his high performance shallow water boat made by Action
Craft to transport his anglers to-and-from the fishing locations
on the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River Lagoon on Florida's
East Coast.
Redfish are popular to anglers because of the multitude of
methods that can be used to pursue them. Most anglers prefer
spinning tackle with artificial lures like weedless spoons
or soft plastic jerk baits, while others opt to use a fly
rod and favorite redfish streamer patterns from seaducers
to clousers. Fly fisherman can also use crab and shrimp patterns
for red drum as well. Many times a simple dead or cut bait
works well on redfish and often live bait like mullet, pilchards
or shrimp will out smart redfish like nothing else.
Our redfish
on the east coast spawn in the fall and usually stick around
the lagoon all winter long to feed and forage before heading
for inlets and beaches for the spring and summer. Many researchers
have claimed that the Mosquito Lagoon redfish
stay year-a-round in the shallow water Lagoons, but there
has been evidence lately to show (by tagging) that many seek
the local inlets and beaches during parts of the year to feed
on the fall mullet run or just to get in the ocean from time-to-time.
It's a sure bet that if you fish long enough around Florida,
you'll run into a redfish eventually and
it might be bigger than you expected, especially if it's in
the Mosquito Lagoon. August 2008 Redfish Fishing Report
Port Canaveral has been blasting off with sky rocketing kingfish all summer long and August is truly gearing up for a spectacular spawning season for large smoker sized kingfish on or near the beaches. Several of my charters have recently caught king mackeral over thirty pounds and a few lucky and skilled anglers have landed them over forty.
"Captain Richard showed us how to livebait for king mackeral off Cape Canaveral and we watched the fish literally jump 10 feet out of the air striking our baits and do blistering runs that almost spooled our reels."
Using live bait like pogies, Sardines or Mullet to entice these large predator fish into hitting our light tackle is a wonderful opportunity for an angler to get aquainted with saltwater big game fishing without necessarily having to go way offshore or spend alot of money. August is shaping up to be a great month and as long as the winds stay calm and the tropics aren't very active we will see more King Mackeral Action into September. |
