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If you are here in the Orlando, Disney, Kissimmee, Palm Coast, Stuart, Tampa, Cocoa Beach, Edgewater, Titusville, New Smyrna Beach, Palm Bay, Melbourne or Daytona Beach area and are looking into going on an inshore light tackle flats fishing charter for redfish, seatrout, tarpon, IRL snook or black drum then please give me a call at (352)223-;7897 -; email me at -; captdrew@floridainshorefishingcharters.com -; I will be glad to see if I can meet your needs or answer any questions you may have.

January 3, 2008 -; New Smyrna Beach Light Tackle Flats Fishing Guide Report

Today is another day with high winds and cold temperatures. The afternoon bite would be the best time to allow the water temperature to rise and let the waters heat up some. Start looking for fish(red fish and seatrout) in the shallower flats, tailing and feeding throughout the day. These waters will warm up first.

Soft plastics and live shrimp will be your best choice of bait. DOA is the go to plastics. Fly fishing the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River this time of year has been great. Numerous redfish are being landed using 6 and 7 weight fly rods as well with crab patterns and shrimp pattern flies. Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach flats fishing reports have been steady with great catches along not only the surf but the inshore waters as well. Sight fishing around the areas known as Orange Island, Turtle Mound Creek, Eldora Flats, Turner Flats and Slippery Creek this time of year are your very best bet.

However fishing the south end of the Mosquito Lagoon in the Titusville, Cocoa Beach and Merritt Island areas are producing fish as well. The big bull redfish and giant black drum are all over the Banana River no motor zone. Using light tackle with a DOA Cal or DOA Baitbuster you can land numerous fish. Now keep in mind that this takes a canoe or kayak to get in there since gas motors and electric trolling motors are not allowed at all.

The nice thing here central Florida is the boat ramps are right there at the fishing grounds. The oyster bars in the winter time has been producing nice redfish as well. Saltwater sport fishing paradise for sure. It will not be too much longer before the tarpon, king fish and cobia start rolling in.

Practice catch and release.

Past Central Florida Fishing Reports

2006 to 2009 Archived -; Ponce Inlet, Sebastian Inlet, Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Reports
2010 to 2015 Archived -; Mosquito Lagoon, Port Canaveral, Indian River and Ponce Inlet Fishing Reports
2016 to 2020 Archived -; Mosquito Lagoon, Sebastian Inlet, Indian River and Ponce Inlet Fishing Reports

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