Not Much Fishing This Week
Thanks for reading this week’s post, Not Much Fishing This Week. The weather has still been iffy, and other projects take my time on marginal weather days.
I bought plans for a canoe build from Cape Falcon Kayak. I’ve been prepping in order to start the actual canoe building process- building sawhorses, purchasing needed tools and materials, etc. So when a cold front comes through, like happened this past week, I have another outlet for my nervous energy.
Also, I’m writing for the Global Outdoors Blog , and Rivers and Feathers . Gotta pay for that canoe!
On a different note, 15,000 redfish fingerlings were just stocked into the Banana River Lagoon. Read the press release here-
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Tuesday I went kayaking on Mosquito Lagoon. The water is so high! I found a load of baby tarpon- true babies, like yearlings. Many couldn’t get the fly in their mouths. I was WAY overgunned with a four-weight. Got four babies, and three snooklets, and two slot reds, on a mix of fly and spin. I wanted a trout to finish the symmetry, but it didn’t happen.
Wednesday I took the Bang-O-Craft to Mosquito Lagoon, different spot. Did not touch a fish with the fly rod, but got two snooklets and a trout that maybe could have held batter, by using the rubber shad. Pretty slow fishing, and then the front came.
As another public service announcement, in the area I fish around the Kennedy Space Center, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission has closed all taking of red drum, effective July 2022. Seatrout season is closed all of November as well. Read the regulations here… Don’t get caught with illegal fish! The lagoons need those fish more than you do, anyway.
Best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving. Remember to count your blessings…
That’s Not Much Fishing This Week. Thanks for reading!
Every day is a blessing. Don’t waste it- Go fishing! Go paddling! Take a walk! Stay active!
John Kumiski
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In your post this week (11.19.22) in the picture of the speckled trout, I note you have the rubber shad hooked sideways; I’ve always understood that it should be hooked “fore-and-aft” so the paddle tail will flutter. Do you find significant advantage or disadvantage with either method?
i have run photos of how i ALWAYS rig it, as recently as two weeks ago
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the fish twist it up as the struggle to free themselves