June East Central Florida Outlook
Wade fishers on the shores of the Intracoastal Waterway should get an early start to get in on the morning bite, top water lures can be most effective with low light, after the sun is up just a half hour or so, the surface feeding can slow down, go sub surface with lures, and start to use your live or dead bait.
Catch finger mullet and mud minnows early before they can see you and your cast net better after sun up. Live or dead shrimp are always a good choice for the most bites, but you will have to fish through the bites from smaller fish. Live finger mullet can be the best for larger fish but is a risk and reward scenario, you may have to wait for the big strike.
Surf fishermen will continue to target whiting, peeled shrimp, sand fleas, cut clam is best natural bait, but many folks swear by Fish Bites scented artificial bait. Fish the deeper sloughs between the sand bars, if we have clean water you can see the bars and troughs, with low light or cloudy water, look for the waves cresting on the bars and smoother water over top of the sloughs to identify where the deeper water of the slough is.
Shore bound jetty anglers can be catching redfish, black drum, flounder, whiting, mangrove snappers, sharks, and who knows what sometimes, bottom fishing around the rocks is the usual technique, try different baits to see what’s best for the moment, shrimp, live mullet, mud minnows are most popular.
Capt Michael Savedow
Guided Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Report
Summer is almost here in East Central Florida, water temperatures up to 75’, mullet bait schools returning from the south, Redfish scattering out over the grass flats of Mosquito Lagoon beginning the warm water pattern flats fishing which I will be pursuing for the next several months targeting Reds and Trout. Indian River backcountry fishing has also been very steady catching, Seatrout, Redfish, Mangrove Snapper, Jack Crevalle, and fun jumping Ladyfish to name a few of the many different species we catch on my mixed bag variety trips. Regular client Dr Ed from Ormond Beach called for a last minute afternoon trip recently with his son Matt who caught the largest Trout of the trip on a deep drop off with live shrimp.
New client Norbert came over from Orlando with his friend Jason a couple weeks ago and also did a backcountry mixed trip catching all the usual different species on live shrimp with light spin tackle. Jason caught the big one of the morning, another great Seatrout close to an oyster bar and mangrove tree drop off.
Repeat clients Brian and Calle, students at Stetson University at nearby Deland did another late spring pattern trip with me last week catching Redfish, Seatrout, and most of the other salty species along the way through the Edgewater backcountry. Brian caught his Red holding tight to an oyster bar just inside a creek mouth.
You never know what species may come up while catching a backcountry double hook up. Some good size Jack Crevalle have arrived in to the backcountry in the last couple weeks, some times chasing baitfish to the surface blasting white water blow ups, casting bait or lures right into the action can be an instant bent rod and drag pulling, they also prowl the edges of deeper drop offs making for double headers drifting a few live shrimp along the edges.
About Capt. Mike Savedow
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Near Daytona Beach, New Smyrna, and Orlando, East Central Florida. Saltwater inshore backcountry charters, Mosquito Lagoon flats fishing, fly fishing trips by request.
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