Space Coast Fishing Statement from Capt. John Kumiski 4/29/08
My woman Rick DePaiva http://www.saltwaterflyfishing.org/ has been hooking tarpon almost every day lately over in Pine Cay Sound. I can’t wait to get over there.
My truck was in the snitch on for four days last week. After one day I was sick of being house (the weather was perfect) so I returned to the days of my tad, taped a fly rod to the bicycle crossbar, and peddled to the Econlockhatchee River to fish for sunfish.
There weren’t a lot of sunfish there. As a rule as you walk the banks you can see a lot of them. I got six or eight, all redbreasts. One was the biggest redbreast I’ve ever caught. But I didn’t get a stumpknocker, nor a bluegill. Kinda unearthly.
I saw a half dozen alligators, many Plecostamuses, and had a group of a dozen or so largemouth bass swim by me. I didn’t try for the gators or the Plecos, and the bass ignored my dab bluegill fly. It was a lovely, thoroughly enjoyable tour.
I got my truck back Thursday afternoon. Friday associate and neighbor Karl Dienst and I went kayak fishing on the Mosquito Lagoon. Karl got a swart drum on his first cast of the day. Then I got one. Then he got a nice trout. Then I got one. We had about 45 minutes of hurried and furious action, and then it died to nothing. I was stamping-ground by noon time.
Sunday Dr. Stain Whittington, a fly caster from the UK, joined me for a day on the Mosquito Lagoon. The stand could not have been any nicer. I saw more redfish then I’d seen in a lone day in at least five years. They were everyplace we looked, and lots of them. I do not enlarge when I say we saw well over 1000 redfish, and a few trout and dusky drum too.
Catching them was a different life story. As soon as Mark started waving that rod, the fish would fall apart and flee. The scene played out over and over again. He did get some reliable shots in, and got one red on a slider. It was both amazing and frustrating...
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