Here a few pictures from previous trips from Mosquito Lagoon to St. Augustine including Palm Coast and Flagler Beach
Palm Coast fishing, St. Augustine fishing and Mosquito Lagoon are areas where redfish thrive on the shallow water flats and creeks. Call today and book your adventure on the shallow waters of Palm Coast, St. Augustine or Mosqiuito Lagoon.
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Tie on your favorite topwater plug and get to casting, gator trout will be lurking the bait pods along the ICW. First light, outgoing tides and schools of mullet is the formula for a successful morning outing for trout. Working topwater and sinking plugs parallel to drop offs and around creek mouths will guarantee success! Schoolie trout have been thumping 1/4 oz. RipTide jigs and 3″ RipTide mullet in the darker colors around deeper docks during mid day hours.
Redfish will also be patrolling the shell banks of the ICW working the bait pods during low tides. Deeper flats that are holding mullet will have redfish shadowing mullet pods. A RipTide watermelon color jerkbait on a Daiichi 4/0 buttdragger hook is a great search bait for flats fishing. Oyster bed hopping and casting to spartina grass edges will produce strikes as long as the mullet are around. For finicky reds on the shallows that refuse artificials try a fresh cut mullet head with a 1/0 Daiichi circle wide hook through the bottom lip and out through the top. Cast the mullet head around oyster beds and hold on!
Blue fish continue to chew around Matanzas Inlet, they will bite just about any lure that resembles a mullet. Jacks are starting to show up as well and being caught at first light with surface poppers. Ladyfish are starting to stack on outgoing tides busting baitfish in the bigger creeks.
Springtime is around the corner and should bring the mullet out of their winter hiding holes. Redfish will start to scatter on the flats and will be hanging around the pods of mullet eating whatever gets kicked up. Look along Spartina grass edges, oyster patches during high tides and ICW for low tides. RipTide Pro Jigheads with a RipTide 3 inch mullet, topwater plugs and jerkbaits are proven lures that work for reds in March. Trout will be devouring topwater plugs at first light along ICW, creek mouths and docks. Once sun gets high, whip out that jig and soft plastic for subsurface trout. Bluefish will be around Matanzas Inlet mixed in with the trout. Flounder can be found on the flats during all stages of the tide also in creek holes and inlets. Finger size mullet on a fish finder rig or a mud minnow on a jighead should do the trick. Snook will show up from winter holding spots if water temps warm rapidly or else look for them in April. Capt. Chris Herrera of Palm Coast Fishing Charters (386) 437-2545
Cooper with a “Gator trout” Caught with a Riptide Realistic Shrimp
Jim Coleman poses with a Redfish who fell for a RipTide Realistic shrimp
Ling hooks her first Redfish ever out of a small school with a RipTide Screw Jig and RipTide 3″ mullet
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