The TC Orlando Fishing Report
Timothy Courville, MD, Fly Fisher.
Who, or what, is TC? It could have been TC Howard, long time friend and rod repair guru, but not this week. TC is Timothy Courville, MD, a fine fly caster. He fished with me for three days this week, with some very mixed results. Since I only fished those three days, he’s featured in the TC Orlando Fishing Report.
Monday found us on the Indian River Lagoon. Nice day, not too many clouds, kind of a stiff wind from the southeast. There were quite a few fish around, and Timothy got the job done. The morning started off with a few breaking ladyfish. Bang! One in the boat. Then we saw a phenomenon all too rare in the IRL, breaking redfish. Bam! One in the boat.
Bam! One in the boat!
Then we got to sight cast to some real nice seatrout. Tim got several. Crevalle jacks started busting mullet. Slam! Another species down. Most fish were caught on synthetic minnow patterns. All in all it was a productive day.
This was a beautiful, fat fish, the best of the day.
Tuesday I wanted to try the ocean, so we launched at Port Canaveral. It was a little too rough. We ran the beach to Cape Canaveral, found one school of pogies, got a couple bluefish with a spin rod, could not turn a bite on fly. We pulled the boat at nine AM and went back to the Indian River Lagoon. We must have educated the fish the previous day because we could not buy a strike, in spite of seeing some very nice fish. We tried a couple other spots. At the last spot, late in the afternoon, Timothy got our first fish of the day, a modest redfish that took a synthetic minnow. To my surprise we found some snook and to my bigger surprise they were quite aggressive. The synthetic minnow fooled three. At this point it was 5 PM and time to wrap it up. So it had been a frustrating day but at least it ended on a high point.
Wednesday we went to the Banana River Lagoon. It had been so good last week, but the bottom had fallen out. We paddled and poled for miles. It was hard to find fish and when we did they said no to everything we tried. We did not get a bite and the skunking could not have been more thorough.
Not to beat the puffer name thing to death, but I got one more response to the puffer question. This is the last one I will share unless I get the brilliant one that I couldn’t come up with. Anthony L. wrote, “I was thinking ‘Party Balloon’ could be a cool name for pufferfish, it’s hard to say party balloon and think negatively! Is it sexy?… I’m not sure, but it sounds fun!” Thank you for the idea, sir!
And that is this week’s TC Orlando Fishing Report from Spotted Tail.
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