An Exciting Species of Fish to Catch on the Mosquito Lagoon is the Common Snook or Robalo in Spanish.

Snook Fishing The Mosquito Lagoon

The Mosquito Lagoon is not the snook fishing mecca that many parts of Florida is, but it does have it's moments. Snook are typically not a sought after species on the Lagoon this far north, but as the weather has warmed over the last few years and the winters have been mild, we've found snook in the backwaters, along the dropoffs and in troughs in the shallow water flats. Mosquito Lagoon is well known for it's fabulous sightfishing for redfish and awesome spotted sea trout fishing, but the other two types of sportfish that are regularly sought after are the tarpon and hard hitting snook.

Many guides are strictly artificial anglers and this can lead to missed opportunities when it comes to snook on the flats. Yes! Snook will eat artificials many times but more often than not they prefer a live finfish like a mullet, pilchard or pigfish. It's not often that Captain Richard goes out fishing without catching at least a few live baits along with an assortment of artificials. Snook can be a stubborn fish when it comes to strikes, especially during mid-day as they are more known for noctornal feeding.

You can read more about snook on our snook species page and while snook are not as abundant in the Mosquito Lagoon they are more prevelent down south near Cocoa Beach, Port Canaveral and Sebastian where anglers can target snook almost year round during the right conditions. Typically the Mosquito Lagoon has snook as an opportunity fishery rather than a targeted species. But when there's snook on the flats are along the mangroves on the Mosquito flats during the warmer times of the year. Lookout! You're in for a fight!

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Sight Fishing Updates on the Mosquito Lagoon

Howdy,
I'm Captain Richard and while I'm regularly fishing for redfish and sea trout on the Mosquito Lagoon area I've found that we have a snook fishery during the warmer months of the year. A typical snook on the Lagoon is less than five pounds but on occassion we've caught them in the teens. As a fishing guide I find new patterns almost yearly in the local fish population and as the winters have become milder I've noticed many more snook in the shallow water lagoons and along the sandbars, oyster beds and troughs in parts of the Lagoon. Typically snook fishing can be done with conventional fishing gear and artificials along the mangrove edges and droppoffs but we've been doing well in my tower boat by finding the fish and presenting natural live baits to the snook after we've located them. Live bait and snook seem to be the combination and having plenty of bait to tease and chum them up is even better, an excited snook is a sucker for the hook.

If you're looking for a great day of snook fishing you might want to consider the waters a little farther south toward Port Canaveral and Sebastian Inlet as the snook fishing is superb in those areas and the chances of you presenting a bait to the snook are greater.

As always I look forward to hearing from many of you soon, if you need to contact Captain Gina and set up a charter please call her at (321) 868-4953 or just fill out the form on the left.

Where Is The Mosquito Lagoon?

Mosquito Lagoon is on Florida's east coast directly east of Orlando between Cocoa Beach and Daytona Beach. If you are leaving Orlando's theme parks it's about an hour away from Universal Studios and Disney. The Mosquito Lagoon has the Intracoastal Waterway threading through it's north end and the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge bounding on it's southern end. If you continue south on the ICW you'll traverse through the Haulover Canal dumping into the Indian River Lagoon and south towards the Florida Keys eventually.

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