Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Reports

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - Today Todd Ulrich joined me on the flats in the Mosquito Lagoon. We started off our morning throwing top water plugs for some stunt fishing, as we would call it. Fifteen crashes and a hook up seem to be the ratio sometimes. I got a little tired of wa more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - One of the first questions I asked my Client Gary Ringer was have you ever caught a snook. He said yes, but did not have any keeper size fish to mention. I replied, we will try to change that the tides and moon are perfect. He pitched his shrimp to t more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - This past week in the Mosquito Lagoon the reds were up on the flats as well as the deeper water. We started our day today throwing top water plugs at many targets. Even with a perfect cast with the plugs the reds would shy away. Then we tossed a few more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - In the Mosquito lagoon the reds are still bunched up but are real spooky. Make sure you try to approach them with stealth like fashion. When you get on a school do not push them for this will only drive the fish out of their pattern. Instead you can more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - This week I have seen a few tarpon rolling in the Indian River. Throw a finger mullet or fly in front of the roll and hope for the best. Windy did such a trick and she jumped a hundred-pound plus that ate a strip of jack. The Lagoon produced some n more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - Fishing in the Mosquito Lagoon has been good for trout but sight fishing the flats was a little hinder due to the high winds. I fished the last three days in twenty mile per hour winds. Today the wind dropped to around ten and it made it a lot easier more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - The rain took over most of central Florida for the last two days. Then today the sky parted after a few hours of clouds and the water turned red. That is in redfish red, we were on a very large school of reds that were hungry after the to day fast. W more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - Fishing in the Mosquito Lagoon has been good this week for reds and trout with some ladyfish and jacks on the side. Today John sr. and John Gilbert took eight trout to four pounds and seven reds. They also caught some very large ladyfish that smoked more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - Yesterday we started our day fishing for trout in the Mosquito Lagoon with pigfish. Art caught the first trout of the day, a five pounded. Even though we did not catch any more that size we did catch about twenty more. He and Bob also caught four red more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - This week in the Mosquito Lagoon we had some banner days and some not. Wendell Ferdic joined me for a half day and took ten trout and only one was short, all the others were large to gator size. He also put a few reds in the bag with one over slot fi more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon