Mother nature, mother nature and more mother nature.. Enough is enough!!!! Whew.

Finally we have decent weather and it seems like the Redfish have also been waiting because they are everywhere in Mosquito Lagoon..

During the holidays with client Steve Brown we headed out on a very calm mid December day. Perfect glass, just pinch me..... can this be real?

Whenever I get this type of day it kind of short circuits my brain because I know there are so many choices of where to fish, where to look for fish and where to look first..

Well I went up on a flat that over the last few weeks that had not been fished because of low water conditions and also just overlooked. I ran up about 200 yards on this 1000 yard flat and noticed some movement of a small 20 fish school of Redfish and shut down. After letting my wake settle down the ripples gradually faded and it was just perfect slick conditions.

I was climbing up on the platform when Steve said look at all those wakes and movement. He asked me if I thought they were Redfish or just large mullet.. As I began to pole slowly and about 100 yards ahead 2 Redfish just stuck 10 inches of their tails straight up and began to flag us as they rooted out a morning meal of small 1/2 inch crabs. Those crabs seem to be everywhere this time of year.

As the sun came up and fully lighted up this flat over the next 10 minutes or so we could see at any given time 50 plus Redfish scattered over the next 300 yards of this flat. They were everywhere popping up here and there and just beautiful to see.

Easing up on several tailing reds Steve put a great cast 2 foot past a tailing redfish and he quickly turned and went right to the jerkbait and inhaled it. What a sight. When Steve set the hook on that 8# red the whole flat lit up with hundreds and hundreds of reds all over that flat.

Steve landed 22 reds that morning all were sighted tailing and casted to individually and hooked up. We could have thrown to small 20 fish schools cruising around but chose to hunt and pick off these singles. What a day. This is what the Winter/Spring redfishing is all about in Mosquito Lagoon. Visual sighting of reds and casting to targets as they feed or lay still waiting to ambush a slow moving lure..

As on all my trips I am the first one to say it if the weather is very bad and we should reschedule.

The object all my trips is to catch as many reds as possible, not take you for a boat ride and at the end of the day not say as many guides do "well it could of been better if mother nature would of cooperated." Well DUH!!!! After canceling and rescheduling quite a lot in last 4 months with Hurricanes and now fronts, it is really nice to have these kind of days.

The moral of the story here is the redfish are here all the time in Mosquito Lagoon but will Mother Nature allow you the opportunity to find them.