Orlando Kayak Fly Fishing Report
This is the Orlando Kayak Fly Fishing Report for November 14. My apologies for all the selfies.
With a kayak fishing charter coming up on Saturday, all my fishing this week was paddle-based fly fishing.
Tuesday‘s trip was on the Mosquito Lagoon. Yes, it sounds like a broken record. High, dirty water makes fishing tough there. I found one redfish all day. Remarkably, I had a good shot at it and caught it. One cannot with reasonable expectation see one fish and hope to catch it. Someone gave me a huge dose of luck.
It was quite a handsome redfish, though.
Wednesday Mike Conneen and I went to the Banana River Lagoon. The water was cleaner than Mosquito Lagoon, but still pretty dirty. All the grass there is gone. I ran over a small school of fish and set up camp while Mike kept going. A couple hours of casting a wool crab netted me three bites that resulted in a black drum, a redfish, and a hooked and lost fish of unknown specie.
Black drum selfie. Not the monster black drum, but it’s a fish.
This redfish was a pretty nice one.
I imagine the fish feels a great deal of relief when it gets returned to the water.
And off it goes!
Unfortunately Mike did not get a fish. There wasn’t a lot of cheese (not many fish) around for us.
Thursday
In spite of that I went back to the Banana River Lagoon the next day, to a different spot. The good news was the water, although of course still quite high, was clean. Like it’s supposed to be. There was no grass at all, though. Only a handful of fish were seen all day, resulting in a single shot and a small redfish that took the wool crab.
Another case of converting the single shot I got.
It is painful to see what’s happened to that fishery.
Sunrise over the St. Johns River on Saturday morning, at 70 mph.
Saturday fly fisher Steve Marsden, from the wilds of northern Wisconsin, joined me for a day’s kayak fly fishing. He had a few shots at tailing reds. Sadly there were no conversions. He did get what was by far the largest pinfish I have ever seen, and a handful of trout that probably would not have “held batter.” The weather was awesome, the birds spectacular, and we enjoyed the day.
If the IGFA kept pinfish world records, this fish would be in the book.
Sunday Tammy had a birthday. She spent it with friends on the Econlockhatchee. I hope she had fun. I think she did!
Fishing on the Econ was less than stellar.
Tammy’s birthday crew. Birthday Girl is hot and pink.
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And that is the Orlando Kayak Fly Fishing Report!
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