Shore based anglers fishing the waters of coastal Volusia County from Ormond/Daytona Beach south to New Smyrna and Mosquito Lagoon will benefit from the spring time migration of inshore game fish which is in full swing during April. With northward traveling fun fish such as jack crevalle and ladyfish, which are wide spread through the whole area, eager to eat most any bait, live or dead. Shrimp and finger mullet are good bait choices of bait for these fun to catch species.
Seatrout, black drum, sheepshead, mangrove snapper, and more will be caught from ocean piers, inter-coastal docks, or by shoreline wading this month. The jetty rocks from either the Ponce Inlet side or New Smyrna Beach side of Ponce DeLeon Inlet are some of the fishiest waters in the area for the shore based fisherman! When jetty fishing bring extra weights and leaders as snaging the rocks is common but if you are not getting a snag every now and then, you are not fishing close enough to the fish attracting rocks.
Surf fishermen will have a good chance at great eating whiting and pompano in April. The water is still chilly which can be good for these species, bait with peeled shrimp, sand fleas, or cut clam with a small hook. I use a #1 size, as these 2 surf targets have a small mouth.
Captain Mike Savedow Report
My guided inshore saltwater fishing charters have been really good in recent weeks on Mosquito Lagoon and the Indian River here in the Edgewater Backcountry and New Smyrna Beach. Water temps still chilly but on the rise, the spring shrimp run means game fish are focused on them along the channels and Intracoastal Waterway. The arriving schools of Blues, Jack Crevalle, and Ladyfish from their wintering area of south Florida has great fun fast action on my mixed bag backcountry and Intracoastal trips this time of year. Our local Seatrout, Redfish, Sheepshead, and Black Drum are also hungry for shrimp as the water warms after a chilly winter this 2014. As always I am also taking clients on the grass flats of Mosquito Lagoon after Redfish and Seatrout, in the spring the schooling pattern continues but with smaller schools and some single fish as higher water levels and warming water temperatures will have the Redfish beginning to scatter out some. On a recent solo flats fishing charter, Robert a repeat client from Daytona had a great time sight fishing a 26” Red as well as several good Seatrout on a beautiful pretty Mosquito Lagoon morning on a live finger mullet from a early morning school of fish pushing a big wake in the calm conditions. Also catching a few good Trout blind casting tail hooked select shrimp near sand holes in the grass.
On another recent Mosquito Lagoon flats charter, returning clients Richard and Pat from Virginia had less than perfect weather on a drizzly morning, still having a blast catching 4 Redfish with a couple over the slot size at 28” and also a few nice Trout casting tail hooked shrimp, top water retrieving over the grass.
Recently repeat clients from Canada, grandpa Conrad brought his son and 2 grandsons on a mixed bag backcountry trip, we had non stop action from Bluefish and Jacks on free lined live shrimp, Seatrout were also biting with young Cale catching the largest.
Having a couple fun fly fishing charters recently, here is Vic from Pennsylvania with a hard fighting Bluefish, spring time can have fast fly action along the Intracoastal with eager and fun to catch Blues, Jacks, and Ladyfish. Vic was using a weighted red and white “Savedow Bluefish Fly”
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Capt. Michael Savedow
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