Larry put the smack down on the upper-slot spotted seatrout early this past week by fishing spoil islands in the bright sunlight of late morning!
Like most of this summer, we caught lots more trout this past week than redfish. Finding redfish scattered here and there wasn’t too difficult, though they certainly were uninterested in feeding for us.
While working some favorite shorelines in the north Indian River Lagoon it was obvious the silver mullet, for the most part, have left our locale. I’ve noticed an absence of them over the past few weeks and they seemed to have migrated out when the water levels peaked a while back. Typically, this migration occurs much later with October seeing the most active migration from the lagoons to the Atlantic!
Our best pattern right now is to find small baitfish schools in areas where the larger trout and slot redfish tend to feed. Though I’d prefer fishing in clear water, there isn’t much to be found at this time. Stained to dingy water has been holding fish and the trout are eager to feed on soft plastics, small spoons and top-water plugs and so are the juvenile snook.
While we are catching a few redfish on the same Z-Man Minnowz, Diezel Minnowz and Tsunami K-9 Walkers, cut mullet and ladyfish have been far more productive for trout.
Once the sun brightens or the bite slows down in the shallows, move out to the spoil islands to catch a few more trout. All the usual offering we talked about earlier along with shrimp under popping floats will catch them!
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