Mosquito Lagoon getting back to normal

The past couple weeks we have been going through some stormy conditions here in the Central East Coast. With long periods of rain, the waters in all 3 lagoon systems have risen about 3 or 4 feet which made sight fishing nearly impossible. This past Saturday, I had my buddy Capt. Honson Lau(www.purpleisleflyfishing.com) come up to fish the Mosquito Lagoon with me and Dominic Agostini(www.dominicphoto.com). A cold front has past a couple days before which gave us a pleasant chill to the morning air. Once on the lagoon I’ve noticed the water has dropped about 2ft and you can actually see the bottom, which was a very good sign that sight fishing would be possible. After poling for a couple minutes at the first spot, small shrimp were flipping as I poled through some thick grass. Within minutes we see the first Redfish of the day and Honson makes a perfect cast to the single fish with his D.O.A. Cal and a Chughead attached to it. The Chughead(by D.O.A.)makes a completely weedless topwater presentation, and with the small “popping” noise it created, the fish slurps off the top after it but misses. After a couple more head out of water attempts, the Redfish finally finds the hook!

All 3 of us rotated from the bow to pushpole catching slot Redfish after slot Redfish on both spin and flyrods. From all the lousy weather that we had and finally having a beautiful sunny day, it seemed to turn the fish on. We were seeing Redfish belly crawling in super skinny water and a few tailers. After landing around 12 Redfish, we had enough pictures and video to call it a great day!