Mosquito Lagoon
Spotted Sea Trout Fishing

A Day of Fishing on the Mosquito Lagoon for Gator sized Sea Trout with an Expert Fishing Guide.

What a great time to take your friends or family out for a fishing trip on the Mosquito Lagoon for Gator Sea Trout with a fishing guide that knows how to put you on the big ones. Big trout like the one above don't happen to everyone that fishes the lagoons and saltwater estuaries in the southeast, but Captain Richard is known for putting anglers on these giants regularly.

"We came over for a week with my girlfriend and our kids to stay at Disney for a week and decided to spend a day fishing. I called Lagooner Fishing Guides and talked to Captain Gina about setting up a day and within moments I knew we were in for a great day on the water with her husband Captain Richard", explains Dave (above) with his son and friend. "I'm so glad we took a day off of the parks to relax in the Florida sunshine during our Thanksgiving Holiday."

During the winter months large sea trout known as "gator trout" to anglers are caught consistently east of Orlando, Florida in the Mosquito Lagoon and it's tributaries. Catching large trout in the Lagoon takes knowledge and skill and requires stealth and patience as they are usually wary of noise and movements. There are few anglers who know how to catch the really big ones consistently and many who claim they do, "it's important to be quiet and subtle when presenting your baits to these fish" explains Captain Richard who guides on the Mosquito Lagoon for gator seatrout regularly during the cooler months of the year.

Captain Richard is a Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Guide out of Cocoa Beach, Florida Read Captain Richard's September Mosquito Lagoon Redfish Fishing Report.

Mosquito Lagoon
Sea Trout Information

Our lagoons around east central Florida are full of sea trout which can be caught in a multitude of ways from popping corks using live bait & jigs to topwater lure, multitudes of live bait, jerk baits and just about everything in between. I guess that's why these gamefish are so popular as there's no boundaries on pursuing the sea trout when it comes to tackle and techniques.

As a child we fished for trout with a standard jig called trout touts, a shrimp imitation made of soft plastic on a jig head. As I grew older we used various topwaters and subsurface lures to draw strikes over the shallow water grassflats in the Banana River and Indian River Lagoons and later into the now world famous waters of the Mosquito Lagoon. As I've matured, I've found that all the old techniques still work well, but the larger trout are more evasive and require more patience, knowledge and skill than many anglers possess.

When I was writing about sea trout in this article, I found myself wanting to go out and try some of my childhood techniques and wondered if they worked as well as I remembered them. As a guide, I'm often asked to only pursue larger "gator" sized trout that exceed 20 or more inches in length and the seldom caught 30 plus inch trout in my home waterways, bays and lagoons. catching small undersized trout simply for the joy of catching fish is not at the top of many of my paying customers list... so I seldom get to try and catch small aggressive little tinker sized trout on small jigs and poppers but it's joy to do and as soon as the water starts warming this spring, I'm sure I'll give it a try for old times sake.

The Mosquito Lagoon offers a great fishery for large sea trout, often called "gator trout" when their size exceeds 20 inches. You'll find trout plentiful almost all year around, but during the hotter months trout seek shade and cooler waters and in the winter you'll often find them warming on the flats or waiting for the cold front to pass in a deep water hole or canal. You can pretty much count on the Mosquito Lagoon to produce some kind of Spotted Sea Trout angling opportunity all year long.

Spotted sea trout fishing trips with and expert fishing guide can be arranged for you by simply filling out the form above. Captain Gina or a Lagooner Fishing Guide will usually call you back or email you to settup a trip on the Mosquito Lagoon or another body of water close by that are holding sea trout. Give us a call or fill out the form and we'll see you on the water for some great sea trout fishing soon.