Fishing Reports by Capt. Joe Porcelli

Calling all trout - . Trout is the game most anglers are fishing for now with pigfish and Gulp, my go to bait is the chartreuse Jerk Shad . Work them on the bottom with a eighth ounce jig head when you are fishing in three feet or deeper. You will also catch some blue more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Rain Rain go away - Rain Rain go away! Most of our reds have been falling for the shrimp we have been offering. Now that the pin and pigfish are growing into piranhas we are using more Berkley Gulp Shrimp. We have been seeing some big trout on the flats for the past fe more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

World Record black drum and more - So many fish so little time on the central Florida East Coast. We have been splitting our time fishing the cobia on the rays and the Mosquito lagoon. The weather predicts when you can get outside but if it is nice and the rays with cobia are thick it more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

World Record drum and slob reds - The Mosquito Lagoon water level has come back up for the spring transition and the fish have spread out a little. We took redfish, trout, tripletail, ladyfish, bluefish, jacks and black drum this week. When things got tough one day this week on the f more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Awesome Lagoon Fishing - The snowboarding was awesome in WV but it is so nice to come home to the warmth. The Lagoon fishing has been very good to us with big reds and numbers of slot fish. We literally dropper baits 12 feet away from our bow as we toyed with the slobs that more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Lagoon still full of fish - We took many reds on every trip this week with many over the slot. The reds have been happy on the flats with waving tails on the major feeds. They were bunched up tight last week and then the water warmed up a tad and spread the field a little. The more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Take the long way home - Fishing is the same as the last report, we are still spanking them! (I have heard some nightmares from other guides running aground this week...wonder what that feels like? I don't want to know. The water level is down 1.5 feet. This is where my more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Low water narrows the playing field - Happy New Year! Reds are in the grass as well as in the white sand holes. Toss your Gulp shrimp past your targeted sand hole and crank it into it. Let it fall and you should get tapped. If that is not your style, fish one of many schools of reds. more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

What is Black and Red all over, The Lagoon - Reds are in the grass as well as the white sand holes. Toss your Gulp shrimp past your targeted sand hole and crank it into it. Let it fall and you should get tapped by pinheads or the reel deal. We took many reds this week with about eight of them more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Only an hour from Orlando Fl. - Just got back from Panama City fishing the IFA Redfish Championship. We finished sixth out of a hundred and twenty some odd teams. After a week of pre fishing I knew we were going to be in the middle of a front coming through and we had to catch fish more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon