05-24-2001, 01:21 AM
Florida's Indian River Lagoon - America's most diverse estuary<br><br>This past week we fished the northern sections of the Indian River Lagoon.<br>Several of the anglers I fished with were interested in sight fishing in<br>shallow water. We spent a lot of time in 8-12" of water looking for tailing<br>and waking redfish. We poled to out of the way places where the fish<br>eagerly took our offerings.<br><br>We did reel good casting Texas rigged shrimp and small gold spoons to the<br>shallow fish. Most of the fish we took were small but anytime you can cast<br>to a sighted fish and watch the fish beeline over to pickup the bait its<br>very exciting.<br><br>We also had very good luck with this past week with keeper size sea trout.<br>Fishing in 2-3' of water early and using top water plugs we took several<br>good size fish. We've had a lot of rain lately so the water level is up a<br>bit. A lot of these trout came from somewhat dirty water. We also saw<br>large tarpon in the deeper areas of the Lagoon but couldn't convince them to<br>eat. Spanish Mackerel are thick right now and there was even a report of a<br>22# king caught in the lagoon. Tarpon are being to show up and in the next<br>month they with be primary targets.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Capt. Tod Hagan<br>http://www.fishingcaptain.com<br><br><br><br>